scottiedog
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I don't know if there's already a thread about this on here but Mullarkeys have sadly ceased trading & gone into liquidation.
i don't know if there's already a thread about this on here but mullarkeys have sadly ceased trading & gone into liquidation.
and bennets of sheffield also gone the same
way, it was from bennets that i baught my first new fishing rod
I think Billy Knott was another big mail order name back then.
Billy Knott is a young footballer at Sunderland, currently on loan to Wycombe. Proper footballer's name if ever I heard one!
Are you sure you don't mean Billy Clarke's or perhaps Billy Lane's.
I've heard of Billy Clarke and call in to Billy Lanes in Coventry regularly (going there tomorrow) but sure it was Billy Knott... the unlikely location for his business being Penzance?
Pretty sure he used to do double page ads in the ATs many years ago and remember ordering a keepnet as it had to be returned and replaced.
There's a Billy Knott's Fishery in Cornwall. Never heard of the name as a mail order tackle emporium though. Doesn't mean it wasn't, after all, I struggle to remember what I've had for breakfast past lunchtime.
Billy Knott was a bookie, used to do the nationals.
It's a shame about Mullarkeys and Bennets.
Is Roy Marlow still alive? I know that Ivan Marks died of cancer a few years ago; I used to buy my bigger tackle items via mail order from their tackle shop 'Marks & Marlows' back in the late 70's.
I also met Ivan on the bank a few times he was a true gentleman and could catch from a puddle when everyone else was struggling.
Keith
Billy Knott the bookie did 'grey import' Mitchells at knock down prices when tackle manufacturers were still trying to maintain RRPs. Jim Johnson did the same as well.
Just thought, I believe it was Billie Knott Jnr, Billy knott Snr started the 'angling' bookie business.
or was it Billy Smart?