\"Jumpers for goalposts\" Nostalgia post

[Ell]

Although I am still very young ....................
Remember Wellies, the only dry foot option (bar Galoshes, WTF) with sea boot socks turned over the top Max Wall style.
Remember rod rests made out two bits of wood and a nail, or nut and bolt.
Shetland wool jumpers too tight cos the wife / mother put them in a hot wash.
Souwesters
Donkey jackets.
Blood loops (nee such thing as beads and crimps)
Big shiny silver swivels
Beachcasters with bicycle hand grips.
Haversacks
Leaving a beach with double figure cods carried \"Cannibal pole style
The advent of \"The Hand Warmer\"
Bonfires made of Pit debris
etc......................................

 

[jeff]

Jeees Ell...you must be old !!

Jeff.

 

[alan]

what ever happened to the handwarmers can you still buy them ?
I use a cup of Bovril good as out

 

[peter.m]

Alan a lot of the tackle shops still have them in their window displays

 

[alan]

had one when i was a young\'un, like Ell ! kept going out all the time don\'t know if they are any better now,might have a look at one next time i\'m at a dealers

 

[willywetegg]

Hey Ell what about Black Jacks and fruit salads mate.

Jim.

 

[Red5]

Texan Bars

 

[5150]

My rod rest, the only one i\'ve ever had, is 3 pieces of 1\" square timber bolted together!

Tucked half blood loop is about the only knot i know!

All my swivels are silver ones...


Ohh dear, seems i\'m 33 going on 73 :-( I got a fruit salad off one of my kids just a few weeks back...

Somewhere in the house i\'ve got the remains of 3 old solid fibre-glass 8\' pier rods, my parents have some cine film footage of my brother using one of them as a little kid when he was out fishing with my dad.. my brother is 51

 

[rich]

when i were a lad you had mitchell reels(white side plates)hooks that could tow a small boat in,woolworths that sold shark hooks??,and sam harris had his shop on wallsend high st(20pence worth of scraps mister please)!25 years later and im still fishing.im only 33!

 

[Davyred]

When Pit lamps were the bees knees...Rod tip lights with wires taped down your rod to a square battery...Fish all over the Lane at the slightest sniff of a northerly...Efgeeco seat boxes...massive lumps of coal lying on the Blast...walking along the same beach at night and nearly breaking yer neck when you trip over some half buried wire

Those were the days!!

 

[Ell]

Clothes pegs with a bell instead of a tip light.

 

[Gwyn]

Tilly lamps before head lamps kept your hands and coffee warm on cold nights, I must be getting old as one place I fished had gas lamps best rod rest I found whilst baiting up was the brackets on the gas lamp, regarding the mitchell reels I still have one and some intrepid sea streaks god they were noisy compare to todays reels.

 

[bigh]

I wish you lot would pack it in !!!!! Between you, you have just described the contents of my fishing cupboard.

 

[TC]

\"best rod rest I found whilst baiting up was the brackets on the gas lamp\"

\"Ladder bars\", they\'re called, Gwyn.

Suppose it goes without saying, but they were used for resting the ladder against when the mantles needed replacing.......oops, I\'ve said it, anyway....lol

Harry........how\'ve you got one in your fishing cupboard ?

 

[SIXFOOTSTEVE]

Aye and what about white dog poo ....you don\'t see that these days either .Mmmm texan bars lol

 

[TC]

OH NOOOOOOO........NOT the white doggie doo again.......lol

I used to like Aztecs and Bar6

[Edited on 9/9/2004 by TC]

 

[mark]

all this nostalgia and nobody mention spangles??

or rickets!

 

[Stores]

Remember fingerless gloves, Old Bill Temple who had his shop in Whitley Bay and his bait machine on the wall (2/- a bag), Fine Fare bags which held hardly any fish, womens tights (is this the right thread?), either to keep you warm or to wear on your head because of the midgies in Scotland, making sinkers on the primus stove in the garage or shed, trying to keep peelers alive by burying them in a box in the garden, chips with batter for sixpence, 10 pints for a £, the Man in the Moon, the Oxford and Mayfair........ must have a lie down now
ps half blood knots have got me through the last 40 years. Don\'t knock em

[Edited on 10/9/2004 by Stores]

 

[tich]

What about the coccy bar called \'\'\'BIG ONE\'\'\' it sticks out a mile ?? aparently it was banned, due to some unexpected connutations.. I wonder why?.... This is an old one,,, Bait machines.. &dont forget tab machines as well out side of Temples W/Bay the fag one was brill a packet of 10 tabs at 3am,, 30.new pence for 10 Embassy thet were only 15p in the shop,, but needs must, as thet say,,, Curly wurlies ? I could go on ,,,, but i wont cheers Tich

 

[mark]

the Man in the Moon, the Oxford and Mayfair [Edited on 10/9/2004 by Stores]

you can\'t mention them without mentioning that temple of Brown Ale - The Haymarket Hotel\"

grown men wept when it came down

is the bar from the haymarket still hanging on the wall in a frame in the cumberland arms in Byker???