alec guinness

watched the presentation with a young looking jim rintoul and rev ovens with the usual good jokes and patter,wee willie duncan with a good yin at rennes(remember doos getting dosh 3rd day that year)and john mcluckie with very red hair. :) the main prize winners baird and son do they still race lewis??

cracker lewis and a top national position as well, i love looking at good doos and jim is the man for the photos. :)

no lewis Andy Anderson and Finlay brown were two good fanciers who joined together and concentrated totally on the nationals,Andy died some years ago and finlay no longer keeps the doos,delboys grandfather was another very good fancier called wull macrae. :partick-thistle-Crest:

the doo at marlbourgh should have beaten all the easties that day :P but yes your wee doo that was second open was most definately a topper and was so close to an ayrshire national win. ;) no more thinking rikki theres a wee thaw on over here and will go and get the doos done. :lol:

1 home this morning wilkie 4 team total recall england.

cold and chilly over here at campsie with the hills having a small dusting of snow.

another wee slant rikki i see you are in dalry in all fairness just about impossible for you to beat your cousins on the east coast particulary with youngsters,maybe a chance to test your stock in a one loft race. :(

only just mike,when you hear young lewis "rooster" firing off the great national fanciers and doos it gets you thinking,i always love talking about these fanciers and doos and this gives me a wee jag to push on for the year. :)

"SONNYBORS"was a smashing cock eddie scoring well from the last two inland races prior to winning sartilly,dont have the combine result but have the federation open. GLASGOW FEDERATION OPEN SARTILLY 1996 1ST D & L HAY KIRKINTILLOCH 960 2ND A ROSS KIRKINTILLOCH 950 3RD I ROSS KIRKINTILLOCH 767 4TH LACON & MCDERMID DUMBARTON 753 5TH WHITEFORD BROS KIRKINTILLOCH 741 6TH GRAY BROS KIRKINTILLOCH 728 7TH J & J HOOD MILTON OF CAMPSIE 724 8TH W KERR BISHOPBRIGGS 716 9TH I ROSS KIRKINTILLOCH 715 10TH D ARCHIBALD DUMBARTON 710 11TH FERGUSON & GRAY KIRKINTILLOCH 709 12TH J & J HOOD MILTON OF CAMPSIE 698 13TH J & J HOOD MILTON OF CAMPSIE 696 14TH W BILSLAND KIRKINTILLOCH 696 15TH J MCLAUGHLIN & SON KIRKINTILLOCH 690 16TH J T MUIR BISHOPBRIGGS 682 17TH J & J HOOD MILTON OF CAMPSIE 670 18TH G WILSON & SON CLYDEBANK 664 19TH J & J HOOD MILTON OF CAMPSIE 649 20TH A & A DEMPSEY CAMPSIE 644 THIS WAS A HARD RACE EDDIE ALTHOUGH THERE WERE ONLY A COUPLE OF DOOS ON THE SHIFT THERE WERE A FEW ABOUT IN THE MORNING.GREAT MEMORIES. :)

sammy i was always under the impression that johnny macaloney was georges cousin who also flew a good doo???

was the village maybe kelloholm mike? great combine and national flyers though. :)

there are a few macs who flew the doos and are related to wee mac frank!!!! dont think bobby is though,bobby macaloney and his dad won the west section at the yb national on consecutive years in the 60s,bobby has a driving school and owns the wee paper shop in gartcosh he used to get a good yin at the rennes race aswell. :)

great memories dal,the west coast combine was massive in these days with sartilly entries over 3000 doos,and yes heb allison fowler & king etc from doon the coast great names from the past. :)

she was looking after your health big chap.

A WEE BIT OF NOSTALGIA FROM THE COMBINE OF THE 80S. 954 BIRDS LIBERATED AT 6.30 AM NW WIND DORCHESTER 1ST H ALLISON KIRKCONNEL 1075 2ND HAMILTON BROS KIRKCONNEL 1071 3RD H ALLISON KIRKCONNEL 1053 4TH C CONNELLY NEW CUMNOCK 1048 5TH J&J HOOD MILTON OF CAMPSIE 1047 6TH ANDERSON & BROWN KIRKINTILLOCH 1035 7TH W GIBSON AUCHINLECK 1034 8TH T & D TURNER NEW CUMNOCK 1021 9TH A ROBERTS CLYDEBANK 1000 10TH S ROBERTSON NEW CUMNOCK 998 11TH R KERR LOCHWINNOCH 990 12TH FOWLER & KING KIRKCONNEL 989 13TH FOWLER & KING KIRKCONNEL 988 14TH H HOLLAND & SON KIRKINTILLOCH 978 15TH R MACALONEY CHRYSTON 977 16TH J NEIL CUMNOCK 976 17TH J & J HOOD MILTON OF CAMPSIE 976 18TH W MCMILLAN DARVEL 975 19TH J & I BARR DAlRY 970 20TH W HALL E/KILBRIDE 969 21ST W MORRISON E/KILBRIDE 968 22ND R A ANDERSON KIRKINTILLOCH 966 23RD J & J HOOD MILTON OF CAMPSIE 965 24TH STITT MALLOY &SON KIRKCONNEL 964 25TH H HOLLAND & SON KIRKINTILLOCH 963. TOP 25 FOR 1984,WAS THROWING OUT SOME OLD DOO BOOKS AND THOUGHT THIS WEE BIT OF HISTORY MIGHT BE OF SOME INTEREST,NB THE WEEK AFTER THIS RACE SAW A FANTASTIC RENNES RACE WON BY THE LEGEND EDDIE NEWCOMBE MACMERRY,JIM HANNAH WAS 1ST WEST SECTION 4TH OPEN AND HAD A FANTASTIC RACE WITH 4 BIRDS IN THE TOP 65 OPEN,GREAT MEMORIES. :)

good john. :)i will add "nothing to it".

no not that strange john,this question usually ends up around the houses and back with the same few people getting it in the neck. ;) ;)most ex members have moved on and done rather well. ;)

john not the time or the place,this topic has been well covered over the past couple of years on this and other pigeon sites,onwards and upwards. :)

oops was busy watching this free espn.

just kiddin alf av been a dafty its on elimar.sorry folks. :lol:

nice wee report on jim woods of uddingston in this weeks homing world with some lovely photos,well done jimmy. :partick-thistle-Crest:

would be nice bobby m8. :partick-thistle-Crest:

lets hope we get them both wuldon as they are getting thin on the ground. :partick-thistle-Crest:

WAS ALL HUSH HUSH JIM :D :D think you might be not be to far away. ;)

bought by KB from this site. tiger got a good bargain 4th west section clermont and also scored bovingdon 2010 50 quid .