How it used to be.

[ayjay]

Not sure how old this pic is but I think the scene must be from well over 100 years back, they don't look like broadland bumpkins though, and no engines on these rods, (sorry about the bit of flash, pic still behind glass)

 

[Guest sslatter]

There's a cracking Victorian painting called "Friday" showing some monks carp fishing. I'll try and find a copy and post it.

[Guest sslatter]

Here's a poor quality repro of an aquatint taken from the original oil. It's been renamed "Thursday" but I'm pretty sure that the original is called "Friday", but I could be wrong.

 

[Guest sslatter]

AJP.. your pic looks like it's from the Regency period.

[Newt]

"How it used to be" but lots more recently. For any who haven't read it, This interview with Frank Wright about fishing that area in the 50s & 60s is interesting.

 

Can anyone date the photo on This page? Certainly not recent since the photographer died in the 1930s.

 

[ 21. December 2004, 06:24 PM: Message edited by: Newt ]

[Peter Waller]

I do know the book Graham. I enjoy all of Wentworth-Day's writings, despite the fact that the locals discovered a good tale was worth a pint of twos and dear old James was apt to repeat their yarns!

 

Re 'Thursday', probably would have been Thursday! Catch 'em on Thursday, eat 'em on Friday.

 

AJP, probably the forerunner of todays Southern carp anglers!!

 

Jim, amazing how many Gentlemen had a 'man'. As a kid I used to fish with such a pair. Myself and the 'Gentleman' used to fish from the aft poop deck of a beautiful steam yacht, about five feet above water level. The 'man', a life-long companion to the old boy, used to sit in the yacht's tender, just below us, baiting, netting and unhooking for us. Yes, I lived a privileged child-hood, didn't even have to touch the bait or the fish!

 

[ 23. December 2004, 04:32 PM: Message edited by: Peter Waller ]

[Peter Waller]

Thanks for both of those Newt. I knew Frank Wright!

 

Re the photograph, the text gave the date, 1886!!

It was taken in July '85 and was one of a series incorporating the same family as subjects.

[Guest sslatter]

Newt.. on the link you posted it dates the photo as c1886.

[poledark]

Newt, does it have a date i.e. ca 1886 ?

 

Den.

 

[ 21. December 2004, 06:54 PM: Message edited by: poledark ]

[slodger]

Wentworth Day also wrote a popular book called, 'A History of the Fens' Graham. I'm afraid many of the people he wrote about had little regard for him though, he's considered something of a joke in the Fens.