Once upon a time in Arcadia, ladies and gentlemen abroad in the City of London and in search of Fishing Tackles would have taken advantage of their account at the giant department store Gamages of Holborn whose frontage spanned from Leather Lane to Hatton Garden. There, in a department dedicated to Fishing Tackles and Other Requisites all manner of delights were on offer to the passer-by. Sadly, Gamages of Holborn closed in the decade known as the Nineteen Seventies and its facade glorious was razed to the ground not long afterwards.
Should you be a lady or a gentleman abroad in the City of London today in the year of Our Lord and Other Excuses for Development 2013 and in search of Fishing Tackles and Other Requisites you are directed towards my stall at Spitalfields in the district of London E.1 which opens every Thursday at 8am and which offers for sale a similar range to that which you might once have found at Gamages and where with solemnity we drink tea in honour of all those who have gone before us in this noble trade.
