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Thanks David, Your pal must have been devastated at his fall. I know I would. They are a thing of beauty just to look at let alone all the enjoyment they bring. I meant to add I lost my little stopper for the butt joint which was upsetting. Even that had style & would love to get one if they can...

Hi Paul, your comments got my juices flowing to sort out my old MK1V with broken tip. Your comments about your first rod strikes a cord as well. As a schoolboy my local tackle shop in Islington, London (It was just behind the Saddlers Wells Ballet theatre) sold me with hard earned pocket money a...

That name do's ring a bell. I only went there for the rod once as he had one in stock. I'm a Holborn boy myself so a true city cockney. Only later in around 1958 did we move out to East Dulwich so not a million miles away from Bexley. After living in Holborn moving to Dulwich we thought we had...

Well after a day yesterday of getting knackered by the Grandchildren I today searched the tackle shack & found the MK1V. To my surprise it was still in it's original if somewhat tatty B James brown rod bag. Even better when I got it out all the pieces were ther with it. Looking at the amount of...

Hi Chaps, found this thread & it got my mind thinking. I have an old MK 4 B James split cane rod I bought in 1963 at a tackle shop in Bexley in London. I used to use it on the Hampshire Avon & Dorset Stour in the 1960 Barbel fishing. That was the days when Hempseed ruled. Bait droppers full of...