Fougeres Young Birds & Old Hens National

Young Bird Winners Old Hens Winners

John & Theresa (Gladwin & Jarvis) Dave & Gary Heywood

from Leigh on Sea from Basildon

with “Theresa’s Boy” with “Kings Road Princess”

1st Section J 1

st Section J

Warmest congratulations to the winners of our Fougeres young bird and old hens races, John &

Theresa Gladwin and Dave & Gary Heywood. After a one day holdover due to the unsavoury

weather conditions from the midlands upwards on Saturday, Nigel liberated the birds at 7.45am with

a very light SE wind at Fougeres changing to West then South Westerly when they approached the

English coastline.

With this our final race of the 2018 season we would like to congratulate all of our winners and

thank everyone who has assisted us this season. Thank you to Bill Travers our driver who is now

retiring for his effort over the last five seasons. We wish you well Bill.

All positions are provisional until the paperwork has been checked

Taking 1st Open 1

st Section J in the young bird race is John & Theresa (Gladwin & Jarvis) from

Leigh on Sea. I would like to congratulate my good friends and fellow Thames North Eastern

counties members David and Gary Heywood on their old hens win.

My winner is now called “Theresa's Boy”, it was that or randy git. The reason for that was he was so

keen to get into the hens running up to the race each day Theresa went to the loft, she kept saying he

is going to hurt himself as he was banging on the door and the partition to get through to the

hens. So I was very aware he was very keen, the reason being I do not have early young bird's they

were weaned in April and had only just started to pair together in the last couple of weeks, on seeing

this I split them up a couple of weeks before as I was worried the hens would be laying just before

the nationals and would not be able to go to the races.

Theresa's Boy had already scored 3rd

Hullbridge Club 4th

Open Thames when beaten by 2 loft mates

on the trap. His breeding is also impeccable being a Formula 1 Lofts Frans Zwol with the sire being

the Amal cock who I bred and was raced by Micky Connolly and Son. Racing he won 2 x 1st Fed

including winning the Fed by over 7 minutes, plus 1st and 4

th Amal 4,000+ birds and many other

prizes including Fed bird of the year. After finishing racing he came back to Formula 1 Lofts and

was paired this year to Guernsey Princess who won 1st and 3

rd Open BICC who in turn is from the

Prince of Rekkem who won 2nd

19,409 birds beat by a loft mate, 3rd

9,166 birds, 15th & 18

th 9,000+

birds 47th

17,429 birds etc. Incidentally the BICC winner the day before was also a grandchild of the

Prince of Rekkem.

I would like to close by saying a massive thank you to Theresa without her help and support I could

not race pigeons let alone dream of winning any races and definitely not at national level.

John & Theresa Gladwin

2nd

& 3rd

Open 1st & 2

nd Section E is Ken Pettitt from Stoke on Trent who has had a cracking

season. (thank you to Michael John Burden for the report). What can I write about this man and his

birds? Well I have known Ken since I moved to this little village in 2009. He was by all accounts a

very good Club and Fed flyer so I teased him about the Nationals and he took the bait. I am glad he

did because he has become a great friend of mine now and although I do not like to admit it he has

taught me many things about pigeons. This year he had had only 3 races with the BBC winning all

three section positions and provisionally 2nd

& 3rd

Open from Fougeres at 325 miles. I was watching

with Ken at the time the birds got home, two dived right passed me, trapped within a few seconds of

their arrival. (Both on the clock at the same time). A few minutes later he had 3 together who all

trapped quickly. We did not understand where they had come from as they appeared from the back

of the lofts so I went out to see if I could see if any more were headed for the lofts which I saw 3

birds who appeared to be coming back from the north. They did not trap as quickly as the first

batches but they did and Ken had 9 birds on the clock within 6 minutes of the first bird. An awesome

team performance by Ken and his birds.

They are practically all his old family of Vandenabeele birds who are bred down through Carrie and

Jester. These are the same birds he would win at 50 miles out to 500 miles then onto 680 miles!!

Ken starts his young birds training not to long before the first young bird race. His wife Shirley takes

his pigeons and will go in any direction up to about 30 miles about 6 times then they go to the race

points not in a race but privately trained usually on a Saturday and taken as far as the coast. Once

they have flown over 100 miles he never trains them again only flies them around home. I handled

the birds which are lean and solid to the touch but in good health. He feeds maize to the birds and

beans and they eat as much as he can get down them. Then he feeds some treats to get them eating

again. All his team went to the MCC race Portland and last weekend again to the MCC race

Carentan where he won 3rd

Open.

I went to see him today and he is sorting out some to resend back to Carentan this coming Saturday.

Ken Pettitt & Michael Burden

Mark Gilbert from Windsor 4th

, 5th

& 6th

Open 1st, 2

nd & 3

rd Section D. My first bird was a Jelle

Jellema, the father was a son of Rena 6th

International Pau and 7th

National Barcelona 2018, the

mother was a double grand daughter of his champion breeder Orion.

The second bird was from a son of Kanibal 4th International Barcelona and 26

th International

Perpignan, the mother was from Starlight and Mellissa 1st and 2

n International.

The third bird was three quarters Jelle, the father was from New Laureaat 1st International Barcelona

when paired to Kliene Jade 1st international Barcelona. The mother was from Jelle champion breeder

Zwart Gold.

Mark Gilbert

7th

Open and Runner Up in Section D is Terry Haley from Abbots Langley. Blue W/F Cock

GB18Z60649 was bred by A & S Hughes of Rochdale, Lancs.

Simon has bred and gifted Terry many winners in previous seasons and this is another one. He is

Janssen based and is a grandson of “Clean Slate”.

Simon and his dad, Tony, are very successful fliers in the North West of England and are not afraid

to go out and buy the best to help them stay on top, for example - 11 x 1st Feds and also big Open

Race winners in 2018.

Terry himself has won 1st Fed on the North and South Road Federations in 2018 as well as 1

st

Combine North and 1st Combine South in 2017. He only sends a small team in these nationals, only

4 in this race and his 2nd

pigeon should also feature in the final result of what proved to be a testing

race, according to the verification times and numbers.

Well done to the winners and to Mark Gilbert on stopping me winning the section, also the

convoying team and administrators for a job well accomplished again.

Pictured with Terry is his youngest grandson Jack who is 4 ½ months old (Harry’s brother) and

Pippa the dog.

Terry Haley, Grandson Jack & Pippa the dog.

In 8th

open we have Nick Atkin from Telford who is our next Section E member to time. This

youngster was bred from my stock pair which was bred by Frank Bristow, from lines including both

of his Kings Cup winners, Oscar and Kezie. She was sent sitting 10day old eggs.

Nick Atkin’s young hen John & Ben Oakley’s young cock bird

9th

Open is John & Ben Oakley from Whitchurch, Shropshire. I race in partnership with my dad

John in Whitchurch, Shropshire where we live and work on a dairy farm. I've been involved with

pigeons since I could walk but took over the management of the birds in 2011 when I returned home

from college. Since then the club racing has started to decline in the area and a greater focus has

been put towards building a sustainable winning family for national racing. We rate the BBC very

highly among the national clubs as the birds always return in fantastic condition and the quality of

racing is very good. There is a great atmosphere at marking and the club is run very smoothly a real

credit to yourself.

Our young cock in 4th section 9

th open is bred for the job being from a gifted Gaby Vandenbeele

cock from top national man Micky Locke from the Wirral and a Gaby hen purchased from another

top national man on the area Derrick Jones. This was the first nest for the gifted cock but the hen has

bred a host of top channel performers for us. This young cock caught my eye about 4 weeks into the

young bird season when all of a sudden he took a shine to a 2 days old baby that two lesbian hens

were sitting on the floor. This cock suddenly decided one Friday afternoon to bully the hens off the

nest and sit the youngster. That week he took 3rd

club from Frome proving he was motivated by this

young baby. The next week he went to the BICC to Guernsey where he arrived the next morning on

a tough day for the north west where the wind was strong West with little birds coming up the

country. He was then rested for a week and went back into the Federation to bath where he took 2nd

club 2nd

section Fed. He seemed to be bouncing at this point feeding a big youngster and starting to

drive one of the old hens to nest again. Sure enough he didn't let us down he dropped like a stone

and was straight in his bowl completing the 328 mile journey in 6 hours 58 minutes.

We seem to have been lucky this year and the youngsters have clicked, they have won 8/8 club races

and took 1st West section in the MNFC the same day.

1st Section G 10

th Open is Khan Bros from New Malden. Firstly congratulations to the Gladwin

family and Formula one Lofts with a outstanding leading pigeon and a deserving win.

Our 1st pigeon was a cock bred down from Ace Lofts stock of “The L Ring Hen” line. The dam of

him scored really well being 11th

Open Tarbes and 12th Open St Vincent. This was our last race of

the season and wish everyone a healthy winter.

Khan Bros

Mick & Lyn Chaplin from Woking 2nd

Section G. This young bird was flown to the perch and

was having her seventh race of the season, the previous week she had been our first bird from NFC

YB Coutances. Both birds homed in good condition.

Mick & Lyn Chaplin

1st Section C is Sam Wilson & Grandson Keiron. Firstly, congratulations to the winner and also to

all section winners.

I only recently came back into the sport after a long break and I am delighted to be in partnership

with my young grandson Kieron who is very keen and a great help with the birds.

The bird which won the Section was a Mandelartz which was bred from my team of yearlings which

did very well for me last year.

When I came back into the sport last year all my birds came from my great friend Tommy Cuddy of

Limburg Lofts, Bingelrade, Holland, so a big thank you to Tommy for providing me with such

excellent birds and encouraging me to take up the sport again. Also a big thanks to my brother Ralph

who is a great help.

Sam Wilson & Keiron

Mr & Mrs Mark & Julie Gower from Fordingbridge 1st Section B. Firstly well done to John &

Theresa Gladwin.

My section winner is a hen, bred in February & raced natural but put on the darkness this year to see

if it would help with effects young bird sickness. The team still contracted it but this time in May

and the effects were very limited and therefore didn’t effect the young bird season.

Her preparation for the race was two races up to 107miles on the west route and one race East of 55

miles.

She was unpaired and is bred for the distance from Andy Parsons stock and was only sent across the

water as a test as one of its parents is from un-tested stock.

I would like to thank my wife Julie who helps with training and is not scared of using the scraper

either!

Julie Gower

2nd

Section J is Trevor & Adrian Wilson From Manuden. We are Trevor and Adrian Wilson, a

father and son partnership. We race from Adrian's back garden which is located in Manuden, nr

Bishops Stortford. We are very small back garden fanciers with limited time as we both work long

hours.

The bird in question is a blue cock known as 'Drop Tail' as he’s got one tail flight that hangs very

slightly down. He was sent on a 6 day young bird I put under him the night before marking. This was

his 8th race. In his 7

th race his was 4

th section P in T.N.F.C. He is first round home bred youngster, by

that I mean that we don't follow fashionable strains and have been putting top pigeons together for

11 years to produce our own strain. His sire 'Mr Busschaert' in his pedigree only back to his

Grandparents are 26 x 1st Club and 12 x 1

st Fed.

Dam is a granddaughter of our Koopman stock cock 'Verius' winner of 5 times in top 100 with

between 10,000 and 18,000 competing.

A full brother of ''Drop Tail' was sent to a new starter Matthew Mason, he has won 2 x 1st Club and 2

x 5th Section in the Lincolnshire South Road Fed with up to 3,500 birds a week. We bred Mat 6

youngsters and 5 of them have scored - Well done Mat.

Trevor & Adrian Wilson

1st Section A is Godfrey Kingswood-Cox from Southampton. Thank god for the British Barcelona

Club because win lose or draw these races are the ones I look forward to every year. I've always

competed in the 200 mile plus young bird races north or south and relish the chance to test some of

my youngsters at the longer distance. However because of the heavy loses in recent years there are

very few of them to enter, even though the heavy loses are mainly due to hawk attacks and not

distances flown I have to say that I am just as pleased with getting 11 out of 13 home as I am to win

the section. As far as my section winner is concerned, he flew the Guernsey Open Race placed 156th

open in the CSCFC Coutances young bird and was just a few minutes behind my verified bird from

NFC Coutances. Now named Blue Thunder Bolt as his mother is a daughter of Volante who was 36th

open CSCFC Pau and 38th open BBC Bordeaux in the same year. She in turn is a great

granddaughter of Blue Thunder 2 1st open only bird on the day CSCFC Pau and he had the Blue

Thunder trophy named after him as he scored from every CSCFC race that year the father of Blue

Thunder Bolt is a son of Polycock and is the full brother to Barcelos 7th

open BBC Palamos for me

in 2015 Polycock was another pigeon with an unequalled record in 3rd

open CSCFC Pau, 85th open

NFC Saintes, 6th open CSCFC Bergerac, 153

rd open NFC Pau and 45

th open CSCFC Nantes in the

same year eclipsed only by his niece Daphne as she had a slightly higher co efficient of 2.4 in 4 of

those races. Thank god for the NHS who after the last few years of ill health have worked hard

trying different medications finally making me feel well enough to do my birds justice by putting the

work needed into them. Lastly congrats to Gladwin and Jarvis and all those who timed in as they all

deserve credit.

Godfrey Kingswood-Cox Martin Williams

Martin Williams from Hereford 2nd

Section C. My 2nd

Section C bird is a darkness Blue Chequer

Cock. This was his 7th

race having been raced in my local federation on the South West route for

two races, and then switched to the East route in the West of England Combine for three races. He

came well in that, having a 15th

Open position out of 3,403 birds. After that race he was sent to

Coutances with the NFC and pooled well, but didn’t score. He was then entered in the BBC and

found his way with a strong West wind against him. He came on a super line.

His sire is my 15 year old Huybrect cock, sire of 31 x 1st, paired to my NFC 1

st Section hen,

Roodhooft x Huybrect line. I had a visit two years ago by a good fancier who said I must pair these

two together, how right he was!

2nd

Section A is Martin, Clare & Jack Norman (Mannor Lofts) from Southampton. This was

the third time this little hen had crossed the channel for us in as many weeks. Always first or second

in the clock.

Her sire is “Magic Mason” 13th

Open BICC Mont De Marsan 2017, only 13 on the day. Also 21st

Open BICC Alencon, 80th Open BICC Agen plus other positions. He is half Venner of Street from

Mick De Carteret of Guernsey and half our own long distance family. Her Dam is Venner of Street

bred by Dave Vowles.

Her sire was destined for the stock loft next season, so he has already made a good start.

Martin, Clare & Jack Norman’s Hen

2nd

Section B is James Fulford from Salisbury. First of all, I want to congratulate John and Teresa

for a great performance. I have now got to thank, Dave Day from our local club for all the work he

helps me with - from training to excellent advise. I have also got to thank Andy parsons for the help

in transporting my birds to the national clubs when I'm working, as I would struggle to get my birds

to marking. Finally I would like to thank him for giving me some really good pigeons for breeding,

the father to my 2nd

section winner who is a blue Cock. He has also bred me a 6th

section 90th

open

young bird in 2016. The mother to the 2nd

section winner is my outstanding barker Hen she has bred

me my 1st section and 3

rd section winners as well as the 2

nd section winner.

James Fulford Katie Fulford

OLD HENS REPORT

1

st Open 1

st Section J is Dave & Gary Heywood from Basildon. Our hen now Kings Road

Princess the winner of the Old Hens Race is a direct daughter off our NFC Fougeres winner

Celebration, who is grandaughter from our great racer and breeder Tours Lad who himself won the

BICC National at Tours so Princess’ mother and grandfather are National winners.

Her father is a combine winning Janssen cock lent to us by our good friend John Gerard who we

have had some outstanding pigeons from him in the past, thanks John. Princess has only had four

channel races to date scoring 26th

Open BICC Guernsey and 98th Open BICC Guernsey.

Dave & Gary Heywood

2nd

& 3rd

Open 1st & 2

nd Section G is Jaimie Clarke & Daughter from Selling. First of all I’d like

to congratulate the winner. My first pigeon and second national was a blue hen GB17A43045

Ronnie Williamson blue hen now called (Flipping Unlucky) due to us winning this race last year.

She is out of two direct children of an NIPA winners from Ronnie Williamson, N.I.

All the hens have race on the roundabouts this year and then paired for the old Hens national races

045 was being chased to the nest when she was sent, she has been a steady hen as a Yearling having

6 channel races in the BBC / BICC up to 300 mls.

3rd

place GB14N96155, she is once again out of 2 direct children of a NIPA winner and a first

national winner for Ronnie Williamson N.I. She is raced on the toundabout system then paired up for

the old Hens National races she was sitting on a 10 day old baby.

We had a steady race having 14 home on the day.

I would like to thank. Ronnie for sending me some fantastic racing pigeon over the years and I’m

looking forward for this years young birds from he’s new winners.

And a big thanks to Clare from all the lads who send, for doing a top job.

Jaimie Clarke

Jaimie Clarke 3

rd Open

1st Section C 4

th Open is Eric Davis from Marlborough. The bird that I won the section with came

in to me as a stray which was then transferred to me. It was bred by P M Kelly and K Hyde of

Colchester and is a Soonjten breed. I would also like to thank Alan Dobson for all of his help with

the birds. Congratulations to the winner and all section winners.

Eric Davis

Roger Lowe

1st Section D 5

th Open Roger Lowe from Reading. Well done to all the winners on a very tricky

day. It turn out to be a lot slower than I expected not like last weeks National when they where a lot

faster than expected.

Sending 14 birds my first bird a two year old all ready a winner of minor prizes, best being 6th

Section 15th Open Coutances with the Central Southern Classic. She is bred from “Rooney” a joint

breeding between my “Main Man” son of “My Little Diamond” and winner of many prizes inc 2nd

& 3rd

Open Saintes NFC National when paired with Mark Gilbert’s daughter “Roney” who is from a

full brother to Jan Hooymans “Harry”

Dam is “Diamond Harry” direct from “My Little Diamond” when paired to “Blackpool Harry” bred

by Jan Hooymans from a full brother to “Harry” when pair to a full sister.

2nd

Section D 6th

Open is Dennis Rusted & John Hayward from Baldock. This hen GB17Z67390

has been rrained with the youngsters especially for Old Hens Nationals. She was flying sitting 10

days. Her dam was a gift bird from Bernie Wallman of Cambridge and her sire is mainly "De

Kleine" blood bred by Andre Berghams of Belgium which I brought at the Spring show in Holland.

Dennis Rusted

Next to Jaimie in Section G is Mick & Lyn Chaplin from Woking. The yearling blue hen and the

young blue hen came together out of the South and trapped well. The old hen one of a team of eight

was having her third race of the season, her first race being BICC Guernsey, then NFC Old Hens

Coutances and finally BBC Old Hens Fougeres.

She had been a widow hen through most of the Old Bird season until her cock was lost. She was

then put in the young bird section where she paired up with a spare old hen. They sat 4 eggs for 3

weeks and I slipped a small youngster under them the day before basketing.

2nd

Section C Tony Lucas (A P & S M Lucas) from Royal Wootton Bassett. Firstly I would like

to congratulate the winners. Unfortunately I don’t know much about the breeding of this 3 year old

hen as she was obtained as a young bird from the late John White of Lyneham who was a club mate

of mine in the Wootton Bassett Flying Club. Since a youngster she has been a consistent pigeon for

me and has taken some Club positions.

Tony Lucas Phil Priddle

1st Section A is Phil Priddle from Southampton. This hen is a 4 year old Vandenabeele. In 2017

she took 4th

Open 3rd

Section in the CSCFC Coutances race and many more in the top 100 open

National and Classic sections. She was given a young bird the day before basketing sitting on 16 day

eggs.

Derek Human from West Meon 2nd

Section A. Sadly Derek passed away one day after taking this

position. His goal was to race his pigeons through to the end of the season and he achieved that.

God Bless you Derek.

This 2 year old hen has been very consistent for Derek over the last three old hens races with the

BBC, NFC and CSCFC taking 17th

Section 304th

Open NFC Coutances, 13th

Section 24th Open

CSCFC Coutances and now provisionally 2nd

Section 11th Open BBC Fougeres. She has also flown

Ancenis this season with the National Flying Club and Tarbes with the Central Southern Classic.

Last season as a yearling she flew well and was also 99th

Section NFC Jarnac. As a young bird she

kept going in to Derek’s best friend Dave Wells’ loft where Dave would throw her back out and on

home she would go.

She was sent sitting well over 21 days on pot eggs and also recently a youngster.

Derek Human

2nd

Section J is John Cowlin from Hockley. Firstly let me congratulate David and Gary Heywood

on winning the Old Hens race.

My pigeon is a yearling Frans Zwol bred by Formula 1 Lofts. She has scored inland and in the

BICC previously, she has raced all season from the middle of April and this was her 5th channel race

this year along with 2 as a young bird. Her breeding is the very best of the Frans Zwols with the sire

being direct from Tip Top Junior when he was paired to the Queen of Rekkem. He has already bred

many good birds in both Holland and the UK up to 5,900 birds and the dam is Fransje she was a

super racer winning many positions including 5th 9,525 birds, 41

st 6,378 birds 99

th 8,866 birds and

now breeding many winners. She is direct from Frans and Truke making her a half sister to the King

and Queen of Rekkem.

John Cowlin

Mrs Lin Travers from Poole 1st Section B. Firstly I would like to congratulate all winners of this

BBC race.

This hen is a Vandenabeele which was gifted to me by our friend Rod Muspratt.In fact my first 5

birds home from this race were all Vandenabeeles bred by Rod.

This hen was 1st Dorset Fed from Yelverton in May and took 2 other Fed cards this year.

This was my final race in pigeons as my husband, Steve, will be taking over next season. I'd like to

finish by thanking Secretary Clare Norman for all the hard work she and her army of volunteer

helpers have put in throughout the season.

1st Section E is Mr & Mrs Alan & Cynthia Shore from Crewe. Dark chequer hen GB15A33721

Consistent hen winning 2nd

Gloucester Fed, 6th

Amal; 13th Section 48

th Open NFC Coutances; 11

th

Section Messac/Fougeres BBC this season. Her breeding is unknown as she was off two youngsters

in the YB loft.

Lin Travers

Alan Shore

2nd

Section B is Bryan Woods from Shaftesbury. My blue bar hen - Blue Girl - is a pure Gaby

Vandenabeele. The Dam is from John Halstead and has M & D Evans bloodlines. The sire from

Holland, I bought in 2011 at a young bird sale in Salisbury.

Blue Girl is a full sister to my Nephew, Elvin Booth’s bird, who was 7th

Open Old Hens race from

Coutances on the 25th August this year with the CSCFC.

As a youngster Blue Girl was raced with the Dorset Fed and scored twice across the channel in open

races.

This year I raced her celibate with the widowhood hens. At the end of the old bird season she was

paired and after sitting for 14 days on a 2nd

round of eggs went to Fougeres.

This was the first time she had been in the basket since the old bird season ended, having been flying

freely with the young birds.

Bryan Woods

John & Ben Oakley from Whitchurch, Shropshire 2nd

Section E. The hen in 2nd

section 24th open

is another home bred Gaby Vandebeele a 2 year old latebred. She was raced on darkness and

prepared for the old hens races where she was being driven to nest.

1st Section H is Keith Duffin from Jersey. Congratulations to all winners and many thanks to Clare

Norman for collecting the Jersey birds from Poole and delivering them to the marking station.

This pigeon is a two year old chequer white flight having flown from the young bird programme in

2016, was on the roundabout in 2017 and flying consistently with the French Federation in 2018.

No top results archived but whilst sitting, came good on the day. The bird is from Tom Roden's Van

Loons crossed with a M.D. Evans pigeon of Myrtle Lofts.

I also wish to thank Paul Davis for helping me out the last couple of weeks.

John & Ben Oakley’s Old Hen Keith Duffin

On the same velocity in Section H and only separated by decimals are Willy Healy and Kevin

Johnstone from Jersey.

Willy Healy - My pigeon is “Jackie Sharp” who this year won the Fougeres National. She was sent

feeding a twelve day baby, she is a Van Loon cross Van Der Wegen and Scottish blood.

After winning the Fougeres National I sent her to Bordeaux a distance of 306 miles and she homed

on the day.

Congratulations to my club mate Keith Duffin on winning the section he deserves it.

Once again thank you to Clare Norman for what you do for the Channel Island fanciers.

Kevin Johnstone - Fairfield’s old faithful. I am so pleased for this pigeon as she has been so faithful

over the years, proving herself time and time again.

She has flown every club race, along with the BBC Bordeaux for the fourth time. She has all of dr

Brockamps best pigeons in her pedigree ie, Euro Diamond, Armstrong etc. She was sent feeding a 7

day old chick.

Well done to all that timed in as we all know, it’s becoming increasingly harder. A big thank you to

Martin and Clare Norman for getting our birds to the transporter.

Willy Healy

Kevin Johnstone

Dinner presentation Saturday 17th

November 2018. The prize presentation will be upon us before

we know it. Anyone wishing to attend the dinner please contact me. Don’t leave it too late as tickets

and accommodation are going fast. Ticket price is £35 per person. Accommodation can be booked

with The Marsham Court Hotel on 01202 552111. Please mention the BBC when booking for

reduced rates.

Clare Norman. Tel: 023 8057 3919. Email: secretary@britishbarcelonaclub.com