Annan Lofts

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RACING PIGEONS SHOT DUMFRIESSHIRE FANCIERS' HEAVY LOSSES It is suspected that valuable racing pigeons belonging to a number of fanciers in Annan and Dumfriesshire have been indiscriminately shot. After half a dozen birds had gone amissing, one pigeon belonging to a Bridekirk owner arrived back atr its loft badly injured from gunshot wounds. It is recovering. Mr J. Kirkpatrick, Annan, reports the loss of two pigeons, one a young bird which won last year's Cheltenham race. Mr Halliday, of Bridekirk, ,lost three of his best, and Mr George Jackson, secretary of the Annan Homing Club, two. Mr Wm. Gass, well-known Annan pigeon fancer, told a "Sunday Post" reporter that the casualties had all occurred to lofts in the northern area of the town of Annan. " There is no excuse for ignorance. These birds are easily recognisable. Apart from their own value, many of them are valuable breeders, and are taking part at present in Home Guard exercises."

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RACING PIGEONS SHOT DUMFRIESSHIRE FANCIERS' HEAVY LOSSES It is suspected that valuable racing pigeons belonging to a number of fanciers in Annan and Dumfriesshire have been indiscriminately shot. After half a dozen birds had gone amissing, one pigeon belonging to a Bridekirk owner arrived back atr its loft badly injured from gunshot wounds. It is recovering. Mr J. Kirkpatrick, Annan, reports the loss of two pigeons, one a young bird which won last year's Cheltenham race. Mr Halliday, of Bridekirk, ,lost three of his best, and Mr George Jackson, secretary of the Annan Homing Club, two. Mr Wm. Gass, well-known Annan pigeon fancer, told a "Sunday Post" reporter that the casualties had all occurred to lofts in the northern area of the town of Annan. " There is no excuse for ignorance. These birds are easily recognisable. Apart from their own value, many of them are valuable breeders, and are taking part at present in Home Guard exercises."

Good stuff

[yeboah]

Brydekirk , The Whitewashed Village

Where my mother was born into a family of eleven ,

Six boys five girls

My grandfather was a stonemason and carved out his own headstone remember my mother telling me that he joked

That the only thing he was unable to finish was the date

Where my pigeon bug started watching and listening to Legends

[jast]

nice one

[Delboy]

Brydekirk , The Whitewashed Village

Where my mother was born into a family of eleven ,

Six boys five girls

My grandfather was a stonemason and carved out his own headstone remember my mother telling me that he joked

That the only thing he was unable to finish was the date

Where my pigeon bug started watching and listening to Legends

 

Obviously there weren't tvs in those days Mick lol