Pigeon Racing.... How it started in our family.

Pigeon racing has been a hobby of the Mortons for many generations. My Grandfather's Father was a pigeon fancier when Granddad was a young boy, I don't know very much about him, but my granddad, during his lifetime, I got to know a lot about him.



Fortunately for me, granddad sat his grandson (me) on his knee and told me so many stories that I wrote a book about those stories. I will touch on a couple in this article.

To get back to pigeon racing, granddad built his pigeon loft on a small piece of property that all the coal miners were granted by the Mining Companies way back in 1926, They gave the miners, those who were interested of course, a small piece of land. This land would be approximately ½ of an acre. The name they gave it was an allotment. An allotment was so the miners could grow vegetables and have a couple of animals.

Granddad eventually had rabbits and goats and of course his racing pigeons.. The goats for milk, and for breeding, and, if the new borne was a billy (male). It became a lot of meals for the family. The rabbits, also were sold for meat.

He had a nanny goat, and a billy. Granddad had his neighbors bringing their nanny goats to be bred, so granddad did make a few shillings with all his little sidelines.

However, his pigeon racing was his joy.

Granddad, I would say, was the organizer of the pigeon racing, he arranged and organized the whole club.

In those days, no-one really had any money, so arranging for the Station Manager of the local railway station to take the racing pigeons a couple of hundred miles away was quite a negotiation chore.

However, the locals eventually had their pigeon races and everyone had fun.





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