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When I was a boy and my dad took us to fish the Severn at Ribbesford or Arley, we would more often than not stop off in Bewdley to visit the Stan Lewis fishing tackle shop.
Stan and his staff knew where was fishing well anywhere on the Severn between Stourport and Bridgnorth and along the Teme!
There must have been many thousands of BAA members that have visited it in the past.
Like so many of the independent tackle shops this one is now also consigned to history as my attached photo shows.
Keep on Fishing
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Posted on September 22, 2021 at 3:51 PM
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Re: Who remembers the fishing tackle shop Stan Lewis of Bewdley
i do reg ......been in that shop hundreds of times....like you my dad used to take me there when i was a boy ...many years ago ....and i did the same with my lad ....i remember standing in there for over a hour chatting to Matt Hayes who was a local at the time...great memories....i didnt realise the shop was closed ....i went in there a couple of years back ...
Posted on September 23, 2021 at 9:04 AM
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Re: Who remembers the fishing tackle shop Stan Lewis of Bewdley
Definitely remember Stan's shop and Stan himself.
He had a feeder on display that was about the size of a jam jar, and a sign saying this is size you need for barbel!
Stan had a really dry sense of humour and knew the Severn like the back of his hand.
A legend.
Posted on September 23, 2021 at 3:13 PM
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Re: Who remembers the fishing tackle shop Stan Lewis of Bewdley
Yep, great bloke....always put you on it, and his angling ran in the family....his daughter I remember is a great angler too. The old shops now a cafe/bar
Posted on September 23, 2021 at 10:44 PM
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Re: Who remembers the fishing tackle shop Stan Lewis of Bewdley
Yes I remember it, in fact I drove past it earlier this month.
Being Hertfordshire based and only coming to the Bewdley area once or twice a year, I first encountered Stan around 2000. The shop was a throwback to the past and a tribute to Stan's eccentricity and disorganised spontenaity. His stock control/rotation policy was a tribute to chaos theory! This approach had its downsides!
Purchasing what he suggested as appropriate feeders I soon found that the powergum fixings were perished. You fought to get round the stock on the floor and lifted things up to see what lurked beneath. Yes his knowledge of the Severn was legendary and he was always willing to give (generally) good and helpful advice, but I've never seen a man who could trouser a £20 note so quickly, who wasn't a member of the magic circle.
Each September when we re-visited the area, we would check his shop window to see if the 'display' had changed. It generally hadn't and we'd swear that the even the dead flies were the same! Probably the only angling retailer this milennium to stock new (ie unused) Efgeeco products!
The shop appears derelict and the window frames are 'going home' at rate of knots. Truly a tribute to a past age!
Posted on September 24, 2021 at 8:29 AM
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