Roodhouse explained, “Pigeon fancying in the UK was a huge working-class pastime ... ‘We’ll carry on raising our racing pigeons, but we can turn them into RAF racing pigeons.’ ...
Pam Welfare, 40, who was born in Wales but now lives in Market Lavington, has had her pet racing pigeon Pepper since around a month after the bird was hatched in June 2023. Pam explained: “I’ve had ...
A Midlands woman who has been racing pigeons for 30 years says she ‘didn’t like them at all’ - as she shares how these ...
An curved arrow pointing right. Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: Pigeons are one of the oldest domesticated birds. They have been kept for thousands of years and used for food ...
A military medal awarded to a Second World War racing pigeon from Dalton is set to be ... arms at a factory near Amsterdam to carry home to England. Tommy, with the message secured in a tiny ...
One interesting resident who lived on Whitelock Street was Edward “Teddy” Banks, a pigeon trainer. He raised homing pigeons ...
Homing pigeons – a type of domestic pigeon descended from the rock pigeon – are extremely effective messengers because of their innate homing abilities, enabling them to return to their nest ...
The Cumbrian racing pigeon was awarded a Dickin Medal after assisting the Dutch Resistance during the Second World War.