‘1979 Pau International had 2,473 birds up at 9.30am on Saturday June 23rd in a very light West wind. Racing conditions were described as perfect along all routes throughout Europe. The likely Open winner was timed at 6.00 am in Germany, however no birds…
(Based upon editorial created for The British Homing World magazine) First to clock, and, 1st and 2nd Open was Terry Johnson with ‘Spartan’ and ‘Pippin’ racing his Whitstable loft, 692 Miles from Barcelona. The birds were liberated with over 27,000 other birds from Europe on…
Invincible Teds Girl 3rd Open BICC Barcelona was named after my late father in law Ted who was waiting with me for her arrival. Some time later I received a phone call from Allan Cecil, secretary of Ramsgate RPC when Melvyn Cowell & I started…
I am gradually working my way through Terry’s (Dad’s) pigeon related ephemera that he stored over his 50+ years of racing and I will posting much of it online as I discover it. Some of the information is quite old and will require scanning in…
I have just paired the ‘Last 100’ as I had around twenty birds from Dad’s Chestfield lofts brought here and they have not yet been broken into their new home. It is literally egg-mageddon at present! However, I am not letting the eggs hatch and…
Well, it’s been a year since Terry passed away and it has been a time of a great deal of reflection and reminiscing for the whole family. We all miss him every day. Terry’s last 100 pigeons are all healthy and are looking good (though…
