What with holidays and a record sales period we are now ready to commence the sale of the Peter Wheat Collection of fishing tackle (rods, reels, floats, lures, etc.), cased fish, Denys Watkins Pritchard (BB) original paintings and scraperboards and a plethora of angling memorabilia. Many items originating from angling legends such as Richard […]
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In ‘case’ you were wondering… The Peter Wheat collection keeps getting better
30
Jul
Jul
I had a call to visit Peter Wheat last week the day before he went into to a nursing home. I helped him clear his flat and came away with another car full of interesting items from his collection. A few special items stayed with Peter. We now have close to 1000 PW items across […]
23
Jul
Jul
Are you travelling abroad soon, or travelling within the UK? Will you be fishing? What kind of rod do you take? Inevitably, fishing rods are long and inconvenient to travel with. Hence, the concept of the travel rod. The concept dates back centuries, with some of the earliest models being quite rudimentary compared to today’s […]
16
Jul
Jul
This weekend brought a truly special evening of fishing. I’d been photographing the Peter Wheat collection all weekend and couldn’t resist taking some of it for a trial. A nearby lake provided the setting and I tackled up with one of Peter’s favourite rods, a green fibreglass Avonmaster and a Mitchell 300 fixed spool […]
News & Events, Thomas Turner blog
Big News: New Appointments, Rare Tackle Finds, Peter Wheat Update & TT Classic+ Rod Offers
09
Jul
Jul
Thomas Turner Appointments. I am pleased to announce that with immediate effect Dave Townsend is appointed as Managing Director of Thomas Turner (TT). Dave has done an amazing job at building the reputation of TT as a business you can trust to do business with both as sellers and buyers. His enthusiasm for especially vintage […]
25
Jun
Jun
As we continue to delve into the Aladdin’s cave of Peter Wheat’s Fishing Collection, we find a plethora of fascinating treasures. We have just discovered, for example, various silver fob medals given as awards by Angling Clubs for catches of specimen fish. Notable amongst these are silver medals awarded by The Highbury Angling Society of […]
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The Glorious 16th of June plus a must watch video from The Angling Trust featuring our TT rods…..and John Bailey
19
Jun
Jun
For me there are three especially magical moments in fishing; one is when a salmon takes, the second when a brown trout rises to a dry fly and the third when your float lifts when fishing for tench. (The fourth is trotting for roach). I have just returned from one such moment when spending […]
11
Jun
Jun
We have been busy cataloguing Peter Wheat’s amazing tackle and art collection and came across a box labelled, “Notable Anglers and Angling Friend’s”. The box contains over 100 floats chronicling much of Peter’s fishing life. I have been through this box many times as it is fascinating to see the floats made and used by […]
04
Jun
Jun
Last week was a rollercoaster for me, starting with a day trip to the Isle of Man viewing an amazing collection, followed closely by a trip to Poole to meet the legendary barbel fisherman and prolific writer Peter Wheat and finishing with a superb day at Roger Daltrey’s trout fishery in Kent at a fund […]
John Bailey's weekly blogs, Thomas Turner blog
Conjuring Up Coarse Magic – The Lost Art Of The Float – Part One
20
May
May
Go into a modern tackle emporium and you actually have to determinedly hunt out the float section amongst batteries of carp rods, the village of erected bivvies and the food mountain of boilies. When you do find floats, if you do, there will be a pallid stock of mass produced plastic efforts, gradually gathering dust. […]