Visiting Keswick this week and need to get a couple of bushcraft-type pressies. Gransfors axe in particular. Any suggestions? Many thanks.
Steve.
Steve.
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Mark is also a member of this forum so you can PM him and he should reply fairly quickly. Ive had loads of stuff from Mark and its always very quick delivery and top service.
Stu
Stu
Feel free to pop by and have a rummage Malley, give us a buzz beforehand though to make sure there's going to be someone around as we're not a proper shop front. GB axes are selling like hot cakes at the mo mind!
Shopping ideas in Keswick? This post is a wind-up isn't it? Torturing everyone who isn't on a shopping spree in Keswick this week. 
Walk through, down and round all it's nooks and crannies and when you get back to square-one go back to wherever caught your eye most and spend everything you have. Don't blow it on the first thing you see.
That'd be my advice for shopping in Keswick.
The clothing range is quite outstanding,
Walk through, down and round all it's nooks and crannies and when you get back to square-one go back to wherever caught your eye most and spend everything you have. Don't blow it on the first thing you see.
That'd be my advice for shopping in Keswick.
The clothing range is quite outstanding,
Shopping ideas in Keswick? This post is a wind-up isn't it? Torturing everyone who isn't on a shopping spree in Keswick this week.
Walk through, down and round all it's nooks and crannies and when you get back to square-one go back to wherever caught your eye most and spend everything you have. Don't blow it on the first thing you see.
That'd be my advice for shopping in Keswick.
The clothing range is quite outstanding,
Don't forget to put a pair of Yeti attack Gaitors on if your walking through the main street, everyone else does
You're gonna need your walking poles for that difficult assualt on the north face of Market Square too.
Might want to think about crampons if it's 'a bit cold'
Might want to think about crampons if it's 'a bit cold'
Cannot recall the name of the shop but there is a really good outdoor shop down the bottom of town, opposite Oxfam.It is s pedestrian bit and the downstairs is a toy shop.
Go upstairs- clothing, boots, knives etc. Some real bargains last time I was there.
Go upstairs- clothing, boots, knives etc. Some real bargains last time I was there.
Almost opposite them is a little shop that does some proper "lightweight" gear.
Not the usual mass manufactured stuff but some quite quirky bits, well worth a look.
Not the usual mass manufactured stuff but some quite quirky bits, well worth a look.
If there's a town with more outdoor shops per sq mile than Keswick I've not come across it. It takes a man of steel to complete the traverse of the main street without reaching for his wallet or melting the plastic.
On the other hand my wife managed to go in just about every shop looking for a new fleece top only to come away empty handed having decided they were either the wrong colour/price/design/thickness. - she did get a dinky woolly hat from the Norwegian Shop though, along with a Chrissy present I'm not supposed to know about.
On the other hand my wife managed to go in just about every shop looking for a new fleece top only to come away empty handed having decided they were either the wrong colour/price/design/thickness. - she did get a dinky woolly hat from the Norwegian Shop though, along with a Chrissy present I'm not supposed to know about.
Winwoods is the Lightweight gear shop. Lots of anti-gravity gear cooksets and caldera stoves. Tarps and tarptents.
There used to be loads of fishing gear shops. One that I used to look into always used to have an interesting range of knives in the window. Think it was also a newsagents or tobacconists. Located on the side with Woolworths I think but lower down the main road. Not many left (if any at all). I prefer Ambleside partly as its nearer, but it justs needs a Winwoods to make Ambleside complete. In Ambleside the Gaynors have a new shop. It sells a large range of Gerbers including a neat little suspension type knife that's very lightweight but made out of something good.
Back to Keswick, get yourself down to Winwoods Outdoors down the pedestrian bit towards Oxfam. It doesn't look much, more like a cheap gear shop (regatta peter storm gear) but it isn't. They stock Montane and other good makes. If you go in and head to the left you get to their lightweight corner. But they close early sometimes when they feel like it. Try to get there when the owner is there, Ian I think, as he knows his stuff with the lightweight gear and is quite good to talk to.
There used to be loads of fishing gear shops. One that I used to look into always used to have an interesting range of knives in the window. Think it was also a newsagents or tobacconists. Located on the side with Woolworths I think but lower down the main road. Not many left (if any at all). I prefer Ambleside partly as its nearer, but it justs needs a Winwoods to make Ambleside complete. In Ambleside the Gaynors have a new shop. It sells a large range of Gerbers including a neat little suspension type knife that's very lightweight but made out of something good.
Back to Keswick, get yourself down to Winwoods Outdoors down the pedestrian bit towards Oxfam. It doesn't look much, more like a cheap gear shop (regatta peter storm gear) but it isn't. They stock Montane and other good makes. If you go in and head to the left you get to their lightweight corner. But they close early sometimes when they feel like it. Try to get there when the owner is there, Ian I think, as he knows his stuff with the lightweight gear and is quite good to talk to.
That's the one, I couldn't remember the name, great shop.
That old fishing shop was always worth a look at, as you say, a good range of cutlery, tackle and outdoors gear aimed more at the hunting fishing brigade.
It was a shame when it closed down.
Another window worth looking in is the little hardware and camping shop near the whiskey shop up towards Fishers.
Great for odds and ends.
Cheers for that! Going up to langdale and around pavey ark, weather permitting - just so you know I'm not JUST shopping! Lurch - do you have the gransfors small forest axe in stock? May see you Thursday afternoon, then. . . . . .? Couple of those as pressies for others and maybe a knif or boots for me - oh, yes.
Cheers.
Cheers.
I love Keswick. I take holidays there JUST for the shopping. I wish I was in Keswick right now instead of a dusty sandbowl.
If you are going to be in the Langdales, you might also stop in Ambleside. There is a shop on the eastern road called The Mountaing Factor that has a great range of Paramo (15%off right now) and Icebreaker kit. I got some merino socks there that are really nice.
Heck, Cumbria is just the retail therapy capital for outdoors bods.
Especially if you stop off at Lurch's place or Tamarack on the way.
Especially if you stop off at Lurch's place or Tamarack on the way.
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