Tag Archives: Nottingham

Tackle Shed Treasures – An Idiot’s Guide to the Avocet

I’ve already mentioned I came so very close to buying an Andrew Davis Avocet at the Redditch Tackle Show, and the more I look into the history of this rod, the more I wish it were mine.  Historically, the Avocet owes its origins to the Nottingham area and the Trent school of anglers, primarily famous […]

The Brake Block Wood & Brass Nottingham Reel

I didn’t know what else to call this one! These came in as a pair recently. Two weird and wonderful vintage wood and brass fishing reels with unusual features. One, a simple shallow-drum sea fishing style reel with optional check button and over engineered brass fittings. The second is amazing. It is fitted with a […]

The Kings of Nottingham.

This is a rare early Kings Patent side-casting tournament reel, what a cracker! Patent 1905/12, that’s 1912 by Mr F King, it features a 4″ diameter mahogany wood backplate made in the Nottingham style. A very complex reel for its date and quite fragile too. It has a tapered shallow drum for distance casting perhaps with […]

Nottingham to Oslo

We have just been contacted by Lasse Merkesda, of the Nordisk Fishing Tackle Shop in Oslo, Norway where a customer had brought in an old wooden reel to investigate its history. This is a Nottingham pattern English wood and brass starback reel. Probably made by either Slater of Newark or Heatons of Birmingham and dates c […]