John asks…
Can anyone remember Burt Coley’s fishing tackle shop which was opposite the Grant Arms pub?
As a child you could buy maggots for a few pence then go to the Rea and fish.
John asks…
Can anyone remember Burt Coley’s fishing tackle shop which was opposite the Grant Arms pub?
As a child you could buy maggots for a few pence then go to the Rea and fish.
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I remember Bert Coley’s. It was almost opposite our family’s shop, a clothes shop called ‘Eileen’s’ (my mother’s name). You may also remember a bicycle shop run by Mr Nash, and Grice’s, the newsagent.
I remember Burt Coleys. Used to buy maggots on way to Lifford reser.
used that shop along with my father for many years till he retired and austin clisset took it over
I went in there as a kid in the mid sixties. It had glass cases full of specimen fish and a real old style fishing shop atmosphere. I think it was also/became a pet shop.
We also used to go into Austin Clissets fishing shop in Cotteridge in the seventies. His son, Kevin and Dad “Pop” were also in there.
And fish in lifford lane reservoir or better still in the paper mills pool !