Lamping

[OldPhil 5,663]

Actually,...I believe that an interesting article could  be penned, solely about the various miscellaneous Field Sports Suppliers and canny entrepreneurs  that started up, here in the UK, back in those Halcyon Days....

I met all of them, visited their premises, and accepted my bag of coins...it was frequently, emotional...

 

 

 

 

Edited July 6, 2022 by OldPhil

[Bird Catcher 95]

1 hour ago, OldPhil said:

Actually,...I believe that an interesting article could  be penned, solely about the various miscellaneous Field Sports Suppliers and canny entrepreneurs  that started up, here in the UK, back in those Halcyon Days....

I met all of them, visited their premises, and accepted my bag of coins...it was frequently, emotional...

KP & S nets ! Still have one of their original canvas ferret sacks hanging up in my ferret shed !

[Bird Catcher 95]

OldPhil, 

That oblong lamp you got in your photo, I well remember them ! Got mine from Argos I think and kept it in my Hilman Avenger so I could check places out on the way home from a night out. Would have been about 1980/81 

 

[Bosun11 537]

2 hours ago, OldPhil said:

Actually,...I believe that an interesting article could  be penned, solely about the various miscellaneous Field Sports Suppliers and canny entrepreneurs  that started up, here in the UK, back in those Halcyon Days....

I met all of them, visited their premises, and accepted my bag of coins...it was frequently, emotional...

I recon that would make a great read, there certainly was some characters in the selling game back then...  

Think there were a few high-street suppliers of those oblong type lamps, as Bird Catcher said, Argos did them and I remember getting one from Halfords. One of them came with a red filter too...?

[Black neck 15,875]

1 minute ago, Bosun11 said:

I recon that would make a great read, there certainly was some characters in the selling game back then...  

Think there were a few high-street suppliers of those oblong type lamps, as Bird Catcher said, Argos did them and I remember getting one from Halfords. One of them came with a red filter too...?

I had 1 Halfords like

[levigsp 938]

3 hours ago, OldPhil said:

Actually,...I believe that an interesting article could  be penned, solely about the various miscellaneous Field Sports Suppliers and canny entrepreneurs  that started up, here in the UK, back in those Halcyon Days....

I met all of them, visited their premises, and accepted my bag of coins...it was frequently, emotional...

 

Here is an interesting tale about a certain seller of rabbit nets, purse and long.

He advertised 12v 18amh batteries for lamping-when they're gone they're gone! £10 each.

I pulled up outside the house and knocked on the back door, door opened by a little child who went of shouting "daddy ANOTHER GUFF at the door" !

I asked Bob for a battery and he fetched one out, I looked it over and stated," yes Ill have one please, Sorry i only have a twenty" now what happened next would have caused serious psychologic issues to someone else, however I've never claimed to be sane. 

The door to the left of me flew open and a woman's hand grabbed the twenty pound note, door shut and she shouted " you will get your tenner tomorrow!" however- what I saw when the door opened was somewhat horrific, a middle aged woman sitting on the pan, flashing something that resembled a donna kebab, horrible. 

Bob apologised, saying she was searching for lice/mite or something and added, you will get you change tomorrow, sorry"

I did eventually I did get my change and I saw bob many times, but I never found out what a Guff was.

 

[terryd 8,385]

2 hours ago, Bird Catcher said:

KP & S nets ! Still have one of their original canvas ferret sacks hanging up in my ferret shed !

Sell it too me loved them lol. Can't get any thing like it now not that I know of 

[Black neck 15,875]

19 minutes ago, levigsp said:

Here is an interesting tale about a certain seller of rabbit nets, purse and long.

He advertised 12v 18amh batteries for lamping-when they're gone they're gone! £10 each.

I pulled up outside the house and knocked on the back door, door opened by a little child who went of shouting "daddy ANOTHER GUFF at the door" !

I asked Bob for a battery and he fetched one out, I looked it over and stated," yes Ill have one please, Sorry i only have a twenty" now what happened next would have caused serious psychologic issues to someone else, however I've never claimed to be sane. 

The door to the left of me flew open and a woman's hand grabbed the twenty pound note, door shut and she shouted " you will get your tenner tomorrow!" however- what I saw when the door opened was somewhat horrific, a middle aged woman sitting on the pan, flashing something that resembled a donna kebab, horrible. 

Bob apologised, saying she was searching for lice/mite or something and added, you will get you change tomorrow, sorry"

I did eventually I did get my change and I saw bob many times, but I never found out what a Guff was.

 

Searching for lice mites omg

[Daniel cain 45,113]

15 minutes ago, Black neck said:

Searching for lice mites omg

was the way back in the day Blackie boy...mother  doing squats in the sheep dip to deter the lice.. while father was away with the maid

[shaaark 10,706]

7 hours ago, mC HULL said:

i know so you was on about that not fog wasn’t you nice swerve shaark  

Swerving fck all, Magoo.  You're becoming as predictable as the alphabet. 

[mush 204]

6 hours ago, levigsp said:

First bought lamp was from Australia an original 1 million lightforce 

 

Mine had a glass front.

[Black neck 15,875]

1 hour ago, Daniel cain said:

was the way back in the day Blackie boy...mother  doing squats in the sheep dip to deter the lice.. while father was away with the maid

In Wales maybe

[mC HULL 12,237]

3 hours ago, shaaark said:

Swerving fck all, Magoo.  You're becoming as predictable as the alphabet. 

little subliminal digs are predictable and easy to spot shaark  

[shaaark 10,706]

13 minutes ago, mC HULL said:

little subliminal digs are predictable and easy to spot shaark  

StrrrIIIIIKE!!!

[Black neck 15,875]

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