Faroes

[Ryan Hay]

Has anyone on here ever raced from the faroes before? what is the distances?

[philg50]

Hi Ryan its 330 mile tae Banff ,I read an old article once about a Banff doo making the race and it was out of time i think it was 1963 and if i am nae mistaken it was Waldie or some of his freens cant remember

[Ryan Hay]

Cheers Phil, I've read something somewhere before and it said Barron Banff on result. I always wondered if it was my granda or It could of been his cousin Doddie Barron

Who wAs a good pigeon man. Cheers phil

[alec guinness]

In 1962 one of our neighbouring smallholders ROBERT FULLER OF MILTON OF CAMPSIE,raced and won the Lerwick club of Great Britain timing the only bird in race time!!!!!From the FAROE ISLANDS the hen was named Faroe queen and a lovely diploma hung above one of Roberts pig pens which I always looked at when visiting as a boy.graet memories. :partick-thistle-Crest:

[Ryan Hay]

Cheers for the reply Alex. Was the race open to the whole of the UK? What's the distance to Milton of campsie?