Scotland For Ever !

[Rooster J. Cogburn]

I found this a really nice thing to read.

 

Hopefully of interest to some of the members

 

"So far as Britain was concerned, however, the facts and figures were known and, on that basis, the SNFC was easily "The Greatest Club in Britain" "

 

- W/Cdr. W.D. Lea Rayner M.B.E

 

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[buster151]

28k prize money in 1956 wow

[Rooster J. Cogburn]

28k prize money in 1956 wow

 

according to the online historic inflation calculator that would be around £593,172 today

[Mossgiel]

I found this a really nice thing to read.

 

Hopefully of interest to some of the members

 

"So far as Britain was concerned, however, the facts and figures were known and, on that basis, the SNFC was easily "The Greatest Club in Britain" "

 

- W/Cdr. W.D. Lea Rayner M.B.E

 

...

 

Noticed Robert Strachan, Invergowrie mentioned with his Blue Pied Hen, " Tayside Princess " to be 3rd open. She was 4th open the previous season from Rennes.

 

Robert was an amazing fancier, being confined to a wheelchair, his management and control of his birds within the loft was quite something. Many fanciers in the Tayside area owed their success to the Strachan bloodlines.

[andy Burgess]

another good read Rooster , interesting to see the percentage of monies going out of the pot too

[Rooster J. Cogburn]

Noticed Robert Strachan, Invergowrie mentioned with his Blue Pied Hen, " Tayside Princess " to be 3rd open. She was 4th open the previous season from Rennes.

 

Robert was an amazing fancier, being confined to a wheelchair, his management and control of his birds within the loft was quite something. Many fanciers in the Tayside area owed their success to the Strachan bloodlines.

 

He was brilliant

 

I've an old loft report on him and it was interesting to see how he adapted the loft to suit him-lowered ceilings with the nest boxes at ground level and only two or three high. Great stuff.

 

When my father first started with the pigeons he used to buy around 10-12 youngsters a year from an old Fife fancier who was in a wheelchair for the most part.Eddie Lynch was his name, although not as well known as the likes of Robert Strachan he flew a good doo and was a great old lad. My dads told me the birds were exceptionally tame and he had great control over them also. He used to have quite a lot of handrails in and around the loft and he basically dragged and threw himself aboot the place without the pigeons so much as batting an eyelid.

[Rooster J. Cogburn]

another good read Rooster , interesting to see the percentage of monies going out of the pot too

 

Have heard some stories about the money won back then Andy

 

For some fanciers if they'd a hot one out of Rennes it'd bag them more than a years wages

[andy Burgess]

Have heard some stories about the money won back then Andy

 

For some fanciers if they'd a hot one out of Rennes it'd bag them more than a years wages

amazing to think really , getting a full pooler ,and winning enough to buy a house . must have changed the future of some families

[Mossgiel]

He was brilliant

 

I've an old loft report on him and it was interesting to see how he adapted the loft to suit him-lowered ceilings with the nest boxes at ground level and only two or three high. Great stuff.

 

When my father first started with the pigeons he used to buy around 10-12 youngsters a year from an old Fife fancier who was in a wheelchair for the most part.Eddie Lynch was his name, although not as well known as the likes of Robert Strachan he flew a good doo and was a great old lad. My dads told me the birds were exceptionally tame and he had great control over them also. He used to have quite a lot of handrails in and around the loft and he basically dragged and threw himself aboot the place without the pigeons so much as batting an eyelid.

 

Robert suffered from polio and had difficulty with his hands. When timing pigeons on race days, he had a metal hook he used to get the rubber ring off the birds leg. Quite often the rubber ring would spring off the metal hook into the straw on the loft floor. One such instance occurred at a Rennes race, when a bird arrived on the day, and Robert lost about 20 minutes trying to find the rubber ring amongst the straw [ I believe it was the race Fallahill Superstar won ]