(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…
‘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…