Welcome to Richard Wheatley
Just stumbled across this !

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Andy Wren
Winter grayling taking a year off !
Claret not just a great dubbing colour!

Andy,

Have you seen this Richard Wheatley Museum

I think he posts on here too. He certainly posts on Clark's.

regards,

Doc

Doc, he is a member here, but he's away at the moment.

He may tell us about the "Wheatley Book" when he's back . .

Cheers
Brian

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“Let’s TACKLE Cancer” supporter

[QUOTE=DoctorFly;686728]Andy,

Have you seen this Richard Wheatley Museum

I think he posts on here too. He certainly posts on Clark's.


Not been there for a while ,will have a good look over the next few days and see if theres any new stuff.
i found that family history interesting ,and a little sad when we had the worlds tackle center here in the UK and its almost all gone !

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Andy Wren
Winter grayling taking a year off !
Claret not just a great dubbing colour!

Looks like they have revamped their website, totally different from their old one. Sure this has been done recently as the one I had in favouites has now gone.
Thanks for pointing it out, very interesting especially the history section.
Tight Lines

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"The Future's Bright The Future's Wet Fly"

Thanks to those who mentioned Richard Wheatley Museum website. I have been working on the collection for a while and the website for the last couple of years. I have well over a thousand items made and sold by Richard Wheatley. Currently working with the Company hoping to get a reasonable comprehensive catalogue out for their 150th year. As they were wholesalers and not retailers the catalogues are themselves difficult to find and I have little before 1968 (the most common vintage catalogue) so a paper trail is hard to follow.

Richard Wheatley along with a man called Wilmott started making leather goods and fly books in 1856 and Richard Wheatley started on his own in 1860. What I have discovered about the history of the company is on the website. Whilst there isn't a huge amount of information about the first 100 years the modern history is even more difficult as the factory moved a couple of years ago and not much of the archive remains. It has been difficult to find those who worked at Wheatley who can continue the story.

Every now and then I put appeals out on this site and on Clarkes to try and answer some of the questions that crop up. See Wheatley Fly posting below. A number of people including enigma309 are very good to me and drop me an email when they discover something however small. However I am very reliant on others people to keep feeding me snippets of info as it is impossible to handle enough boxes and items to do everything alone.

Currently I am working on boxes made by the and printed by Wheatley's for various Companies and causes - called Commemorative Boxes, Wheatley Flies as sold in the USA and the Wheatley fly. If you can help please do so.

I take part of the collection to Redditch National Vintage Tackle Fair so that it can be seen. I will be there on the 16th May if you are about please come and say hello as I am the one with not much to sell and few people to talk to.

Many thanks