tony.p Posted October 11, 2009 Share Posted October 11, 2009 can anybody remember fishing trips on sunday morning with jeffcox(?) coaches at ladys bridge opposite tennets brewery Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CHAIRBOY Posted October 11, 2009 Share Posted October 11, 2009 I wasn't a fisherman but can confirm what you write. I think the coach firm was Jeffcocks but I can recall those Sunday mornings about 5.30am. I'd be coming back from a London away game and station approach to Victoria station would be thronged with anglers going to places such as Bardney, Tattershall, Dogdyke etc - hope I've got those right? This would be 1960+ and I guess the coaches ran as well as the trains, such was the sport's popularity then. I suspect that like the horseracing excursions, ten years on and people had their own cars to travel in. Just thought of Saxilby - they were all places on the River Witham. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skippy Posted October 11, 2009 Share Posted October 11, 2009 I think most coach companies used to take fishermen to the Licolnshire fishing spots during the 50's, although I wasn't a fisherman, I remember going on a coach or sharra as we called them in those days, with a mate and fishing at some place called the Little 40 foot, which was in Lincolnshire somewhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phantom309 Posted October 11, 2009 Share Posted October 11, 2009 Most of them ran from castle gate several coach firms including Jeffcocks and SUT as already posted and you could pay the driver if all the seats were not booked and they used to leave at different times like 5-30 for Wisbech up to 7-00 for Torksey and Laneham Ferry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
verona Posted October 13, 2009 Share Posted October 13, 2009 They were still doing them late 80's early 90's. I remember going on one of the trips and getting the coach from Ladys Bridge, opposite Calcotts fishing tackle shop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DUFFEMS Posted October 14, 2009 Share Posted October 14, 2009 Most of them ran from castle gate several coach firms including Jeffcocks and SUT as already posted and you could pay the driver if all the seats were not booked and they used to leave at different times like 5-30 for Wisbech up to 7-00 for Torksey and Laneham Ferry My great uncle (a Sheffielder) was landlord of the pub at Laneham Ferry in the 1950/60's and lots of Sheffield folk used to pile into the pub after a match before leaving for Sheffield on the charabanc usually with a crate or two "for on the way home"! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tony.p Posted October 15, 2009 Author Share Posted October 15, 2009 My great uncle (a Sheffielder) was landlord of the pub at Laneham Ferry in the 1950/60's and lots of Sheffield folk used to pile into the pub after a match before leaving for Sheffield on the charabanc usually with a crate or two "for on the way home"! DUFFEMS;5531742we also enjoyed a crate or two on the way home,after a session in the pub and I remember falling asleep to the sounds of the Black and White Minstrel Show on the bus radio when we didn't miss the bus!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilipB Posted October 30, 2009 Share Posted October 30, 2009 Spent many a Sunday on these trips. Who remembers having to give up their seat so that some grown up could have it then have to spend 2 hours sat on a basket in the aisle? Used to stop in Sleaford for a bacon butty. Happy days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeG Posted October 30, 2009 Share Posted October 30, 2009 Was in a pub in Spilsby last year and bumped into a dozen or so anglers from Sheffield. They may well have been on a coach trip. Don't know what the river is round there - wife will, she comes from near there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
discovery Posted October 30, 2009 Share Posted October 30, 2009 Did any of you fish in the Sibsey Trader next to Fixter's Bridge Farm Caravan site? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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