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by him, but attended to by his eldest son. 

 He is the oldest keeper of water on the Lea, 

 having been at the White House and the 

 Horse and Groom together for between forty 

 and fifty years, and is still as kind and as 

 obliging as ever. This water is very good, 

 retired and pleasant, and abounds with fish of 

 all the various kinds. It is in many parts 

 very deep, and therefore harbours fish in 

 abundance. There are many excellent swims 

 for roach, barbel, chub, carp, dace, perch, gud- 

 geon, &c., and a great number of jack and pike 

 are taken every season. There is a tumbling 

 bay near the house, in which, in the spring, 

 many barbel and chub are taken by ledgering. 

 Barbel are frequently taken in this water of 

 ten or twelve pounds' weight, and occasion- 

 ally from that weight to twenty-one pounds. 

 There will be shortly another tumbling bay 

 made in this water, which will be a further 

 acquisition : and the " East London Water 

 Company" will obtain their water by a cut 

 from Bonder's End very shortly, and not from 

 the water in this locality, which will be an 

 improvement to this fishery. The subscrip- 

 tion is 10s. 6d. a-year. The railway station 

 is within a few minutes' walk of it, and there 



