BrownhillsBob's Brownhills Blog
Life in the northern wastes of Walsall
Skip to content
  • Home
  • Local quiz 1
  • Local quiz 2
  • Mylee Billingham, rest in peace
  • Walsall Wood 1871 Inclosure

Tag Archives: Ryford

Pigeon post

Posted on August 24, 2013 by BrownhillsBob

Homing and racing pigeons are strong in the hearts of local folk – there was at one time a huge pigeon keeping culture in Brownhills and Walsall Wood, now sadly on the wane and I can remember being in the Black Cock pub in Bullings Heath, Walsall Wood in the early 90s on a Friday evening and watching as the local club clocked in birds and prepared for the weekend’s sport.
Untitled Continue reading →

Share this:

  • Share on X (Opens in new window) X
  • Share on Pinterest (Opens in new window) Pinterest
  • Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email
  • Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook
  • Share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit
  • Print (Opens in new window) Print
  • Share on Tumblr (Opens in new window) Tumblr

Like this:

Like Loading...
Posted in Brownhills stuff, Clayhanger stuff, Environment, Followups, Fun stuff to see and do, Interesting photos, Local History, Local media, News, Reader enquiries, Shared media, Shared memories, Spotted whilst browsing the web, Walsall community, Walsall Wood stuff | Tagged 1957, 1962, ATV, Binks Bullows, Black Cock, Brownhills, Brownhills local history, Carvers, Crabtree, Edward Rose, Events, Flip, Fred Butler, Geometry International, hobbies, Homing, Lew Ways, Local History, MACE, midlands media archive, Ogley Club, old film footage, Pigeon, Racing, Ring, Rowanarc, Ryford, Staffordshire, Strumech, Superalloys, Walsall Wood | 8 Comments
  • RSS feed RSS - Posts

    RSS feed RSS - Comments

  • Subscribe to Blog via Email

    Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

    Join 955 other subscribers
  • Search the blog:

  • Top Posts & Pages

    • Pelsall Hall Colliery disaster - where's the mystery?
    • What's going on at the old Focus store on Northgate, then?
    • Hare and gone
    • Not fit to live with pigs
    • The King of Norton Canes
  • Archives

  • RSS #365daysofbiking Journal

    • #365daysofbiking Station to station: Left baggage
    • #365daysofbiking Slurry up
    • #365daysofbiking Season of the sunset
    • #365daysofbiking Don’t go
    • #365daysofbiking What makes this mine
    • #365daysofbiking Bridge to my heart
    • #365daysofbiking Shades of grey, shades of blue
    • #365daysofbiking On the skyline
  • Activism

    • Bad Science
    • Chasewater Wildlife
    • Hammerwich Wildlife
  • Blogs & Stuff I like

    • All About Lichfield
    • Burntwood Family History
    • Chasewaterstuff's Rail Blog
    • Clayhanger Marsh
    • Hammerwich Weather
    • Hammerwich Wildlife
    • Lichfield Lore
    • Mad Old Baggage
    • Oakparkrunner's Blog
    • PheaseyViews
    • Pigblog
    • PubBlog
    • Rachel Creative
    • Tamworth Time Hikes
    • The Plastic Hippo
    • The Yam Yam
  • Cycle stuff

    • Crazy guy on a bike
    • Sheldon Brown
    • The Bike Show
    • Yehuda Moon
  • Funny stuff

    • Doonesbury
    • XKCD
    • Yehuda Moon
  • Local History

    • All About Lichfield
    • Brownhills on Wikipedia
    • Burntwood Family History
    • Chasewaterstuff's Rail Blog
    • David Hodgkinson
    • Lichfield Lore
    • Oakparkrunner's Blog
    • Pubs of Brownhills
    • Sue Lote's Walsall Foreign
    • Tamworth Time Hikes
  • Local press

    • The Express and Star
  • Local sites

    • All About Lichfield
    • Burntwood Online
    • Clayhanger Marsh
    • Hammerwich Weather
    • Hammerwich Wildlife
    • Lichfield Live
    • Lichfield Lore
    • PheaseyViews
    • The Yam Yam
    • WV11 (Wednesfield)
  • Urban Exploration

    • Mechanised
    • Subterranea Britannica
    • urbex|uk
  • Blog Stats

    • 7,652,605 hits
  • Recent tracks

    Brownhills Bob
    Brownhills Bob
    BrownhillsBob
    366,207 Tracks
    Tsuneni Ai
    Tsuneni Ai
    Fionn Regan
    4 hours ago
    Up into the Rafters
    Up into the Rafters
    Fionn Regan
    4 hours ago
    Euphoria
    Euphoria
    Fionn Regan
    4 hours ago
    Wall of Silver
    Wall of Silver
    Fionn Regan
    4 hours ago
    Ai
    Ai
    Fionn Regan
    4 hours ago
    Book of the Moon
    Book of the Moon
    Fionn Regan
    5 hours ago
    Cape of Diamonds
    Cape of Diamonds
    Fionn Regan
    5 hours ago
    Turn the Skies of Blue On
    Turn the Skies of Blue On
    Fionn Regan
    5 hours ago
    Cormorant Bird
    Cormorant Bird
    Fionn Regan
    5 hours ago
    The Meetings Of The Waters
    The Meetings Of The Waters
    Fionn Regan
    5 hours ago
  • Recent Comments

    Simon Pearce on The Hawthorn and William Pierc…
    Paul Markham on On the ‘Shawe
    Steve Green on A sad announcement
    Michael Edwards. on Former Shire Oak Pupils Celebr…
    Angela Hallbrook on A sunny morning in Pier Street
BrownhillsBob's Brownhills Blog
Powered by WordPress.com.
%d