Bob Turner has put a 30 minute film on the Crabtree Society webpage from an early Redditch. It would be good if he, or someone else, could add a link on here.
I enjoyed seeing many traders and public who are still with us and attending. Sadly there are also many chaps who are no longer with us. I would guess that it was taken in circa 1996 looking at my son, Stu, and my full head of dark hair. I was definitely a bit of a porker in those days.
I wonder if I sold much that day? I probably bought as much as I sold, I usually did.
The National Traditional Fishing Tackle Fair 1996?
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Consider it done.
If you have no grease with you, and your rings are full of ice, do not cut out the ice with a pen-knife but get your man to put the rings one by one in his mouth, and so to thaw the ice.
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Thanks John.
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Well done John, sadly some of the the table holders are no more, but I did recognise many of the 'deep pockets, short arms brigade' they are still around!
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Nothing has changed except the prices - great bit of history.
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A bad sales day? With that body language is there any surprise.
The other person looks like a rather youthful Ian Rotherham.
It looks likely that in an earlier life I may have been Bill Haley with that kiss curl.
The other person looks like a rather youthful Ian Rotherham.
It looks likely that in an earlier life I may have been Bill Haley with that kiss curl.
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Very fetching Bob, are you wearing shoulder pads?
If you have no grease with you, and your rings are full of ice, do not cut out the ice with a pen-knife but get your man to put the rings one by one in his mouth, and so to thaw the ice.
John Bickerdyke.
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