Christchurch Tackle Company
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Re: Christchurch Tackle Company
So they were originally in Redditch too!
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Re: Christchurch Tackle Company
Yes Nobby. Moved following the purchase by Grice and Young.
Interesting to see how much wider a selection of tackle they supplied. I'd only seen a couple of rods and Bob Brookes' float previously.
Interesting to see how much wider a selection of tackle they supplied. I'd only seen a couple of rods and Bob Brookes' float previously.
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Re: Christchurch Tackle Company
Another Woodfields tackle item. Surprising they're so little known yet had a decent choice of tackle.
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Re: Christchurch Tackle Company
I think Grice and Young may have bought-out or absorbed Woodfield when they moved to Christchurch. Their factory in Somerton was called the Agila Works...the Agila being a Woodfield reel:
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Incidentally, I'm pretty sure that factory was near where the drive through McDonalds I always use when fishing the Avon is now!.........in what was apparently called Penton High Street, though what 'Penton' was isn't clear......
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Incidentally, I'm pretty sure that factory was near where the drive through McDonalds I always use when fishing the Avon is now!.........in what was apparently called Penton High Street, though what 'Penton' was isn't clear......
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Re: Christchurch Tackle Company
Nobby,
If you look at the advert I included in my original post regarding Woodfields, the photo of their factory is the same one as the photo for Grice & Young in your post, the have just cut off the information underneath the photo.
Regards,
John.
If you look at the advert I included in my original post regarding Woodfields, the photo of their factory is the same one as the photo for Grice & Young in your post, the have just cut off the information underneath the photo.
Regards,
John.
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Re: Christchurch Tackle Company
So it is....I guess they bought them out then...or at least the Christchurch arm.
Bottom right of the PDF...Christchurch Engineering Ltd. Liquidated 1980
https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/iss ... 0/data.pdf
I wonder if that's Grice and Young??
Some of the images here lead me to believe that Grice and Young made the Agila reel too.....the 'engraving' ( actually cast in) is so like their other reels.
http://whiteaddersflyfishingmuseum.weeb ... young.html
Bottom right of the PDF...Christchurch Engineering Ltd. Liquidated 1980
https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/iss ... 0/data.pdf
I wonder if that's Grice and Young??
Some of the images here lead me to believe that Grice and Young made the Agila reel too.....the 'engraving' ( actually cast in) is so like their other reels.
http://whiteaddersflyfishingmuseum.weeb ... young.html
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Re: Christchurch Tackle Company
Not sure when but Grice And Young reels were made by Cresselle Ltd. Freshwater Isle Of Wight.
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Re: Christchurch Tackle Company
Interesting....a late offering I'd say...looks like those awful self-tapping screws in the two-screw centreboss.