Pics of dons dads loft.

oldstrain wrote:

DAVID wrote:

you would think so don but with what we read every week in the bhw etc they recon pigeon racing will be finished in the next 10 years or so.......

lets hope not david but it aint looking to good from where im standing,more are leaving the sport than joining it thats for sure and the exspense of starting up the hawk problem and moaning neighbours and the all year round care the birds need is only for the few.when i was at school we had a loft in the school grounds and this sort of thing could help the sport alot and would be a great project for kids to follow at school,not only this it might bring some respect back for all animals as the way many pets and wildlife are being treated in alot of incidents is shocking.

I well second that Darren

kev d wrote:

thanks for the post don intresting reading , like your self i flew with my dad and he was
stuck in his ways i did every thing like you and i was best mates with a lad same age as me
him and his dad were the top flyers in west yorks , if i was not at my loft i was in theres
learning al the time and i wanted to try things out in our lofts but dad was a bloke who did not like change so
we argued all the time , my mate was always trying to give us top birds but i said no as they would have been wasted in our loft . sadly dads gone now but i now fly in somerset on my own its pure bliss .
cheers don take care , kev

No Problem Kev anytime mate just like to tell the truth

friendsloft wrote:

I spent the day with Don at Blackpool, his knowledge of pigeons was unreal, walking round with him we couldent go 5 paces without somebody shaking his hand People ive only read about in stud books etc , the few people i introduced him too have all commented on his knowledge not only on systems but generations of top birds, what i know i can write on a postage stam , what Don knows he could write a book, When he does come back into the sport the rest of us had better watch out hes a true gent and a good friend
Ken

Cheers Ken for your kind comments

But your a real gent also mate

love the colours of your dads neighbours don, very retro

Mark it was black and white strips when Bobs dad was alive and the loft was 90 degrees and 6 feet in the air compared to my dads loft

jeeessh, would fancy falling off the landing/staging LOL

think most of the old style lofts were stripes of some form or another, red/green, black/yellow LOL seen most variations

Must say it did stand out