The Oldie

A fishy tale

‘My piscatorial pal.’

I can think of no more endearing name than the one given to William Keyte’s pet trout, who ruled the roost in the village of Blockley in Gloucestershire.

An oaken memorial to him HURRAH - was carved in 1855 by the son of the man who had tamed him. It then stood for some hundred years in the garden of what was to become

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