Old Whitley Festival flyer

[g-force]

Thanks to Dave Hayley for this one, I make it that this must be from about 40 years ago.....when turnout would be well over 1000 anglers fishing for stunning prizes!!
Seriously though, back then people had the right idea, it was all about prestige!

Gary

[The Doctor]

... Seriously though, back then people had the right idea, it was all about prestige!

Aye Gary. Them were the days and I know what you mean but where's the Prestige Washing Machine :O(

[The Doctor]

Come to think of it Gary if it was 40'ish years ago I might have fished it. I didn't have a TARDIS then but I might have got a lift.

[dale19]

some canny prices there in them days

[bandit]

Back to the days when comps where comps with proper boundries

[g-force]

Back to the days when comps where comps with proper boundries

Aye, hundreds of anglers between Tynemouth and Blyth, just about every rock was taken....doesn't seem to appeal to folk these days with these "far as you can go on a tank of gas" boundaries!

Gary

[canman]

Takes me back. All the prizes donated in them days.

[Stewart 1971]

Wonder how Mike felt about being one of the star prizes ?

Back to the days when comps where comps with proper boundries

Aye, hundreds of anglers between Tynemouth and Blyth, just about every rock was taken....doesn't seem to appeal to folk these days with these "far as you can go on a tank of gas" boundaries!

Gary

Seaham Open was the same, end of Seaham Hall beach at The Caves in the north to Horden pipe in the south and it would be shoulder to shoulder all the way along. Record entry was 2002, regularly got 1500 plus in the late 1980's when I was involved on the committee. Happy days

[fishy]

great prizes back then i in my 40;s and sometime watch the old reruns of bullseye which i rember watching when i was a kid and my youngest kid who is just under 20 says while watching it call them prizes u must have all been desperate in them days they have no idea what stuff cost back then

[regpude]

prizes.

great prizes back then i in my 40;s and sometime watch the old reruns of bullseye which i rember watching when i was a kid and my youngest kid who is just under 20 says while watching it call them prizes u must have all been desperate in them days they have no idea what stuff cost back then

.got to admit canny prizes back then.SPEED BOATS,CARS,WASHING MACHINES,them were the days.

[Stewart 1971]

.got to admit canny prizes back then.SPEED BOATS,CARS,WASHING MACHINES,them were the days.

Aye Reg, remember Alec Harvey winning two cars in the Newcastle Brown Open back in the mid 1980's, winning prize on the Saturday and again on the Sunday