If you have been following these pages you will know that I have been busy relocating the items that feature in WVFFM, along with the many others that as yet don't, to a new home. Well I'm more than pleased to say the process is now complete. This is a sort of "before" picture, a corner of my study as it was with a heap of rods in a basket and all manner of stuff piled around... ...and this is how things look now, in a purpose built facility, with rods displayed, reels in cabinets and everything accessible. It is going to make a huge difference to be able to access stuff easily, to compare items and hopefully include more on the web site, so, keep watching!
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Yes, June was a busy month, so I'll do my best to fill you in on what is happening at WVFFM. The new building is coming on nicely, with cabinets in place for the reels which have now been arranged in order of manufacturer - plan is to add captions when all the rest of the organising is done. Two thirds of the rod displays are up, with rods "stored" in some of them waiting to be better organised, - probably by manufacturer too. Waiting for a joiner to come in this week to cut sheet materials to size. I will post pictures as soon as the place looks decent. At the moment it looks like an old-fashioned butcher's shop, there's so much sawdust on the floor!
Other news For those who read this column regularly, you may remember the Ogden/Ogden & Scotford/Ogden Smith pages I put up a few weeks ago. Turns out I wasn't the first to uncover the story. Andrew Herd and John Austin actually wrote about it in Waterlog magazine a few years ago. Andrew writes for Medlar Press and is the author of a number of helpful books on the history of fishing including the History of Fly Fishing featured in the Books section of this web site. He is also responsible for the Fishing Museum Online. WVFFM has also made a few acquisitions in the last month, notably rods by Garden of Aberdeen and a Milward spinning rod. Most interesting was an 11' two-piece for Scottish style Loch fishing. These will appear on the web site in due time. More on the developments soon. |
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