Many members will have seen the press coverage of the Council introducing new rules about allotments
Over the last week I have been discussing with a local councillor the implications of this
I now have in writing a list of answers to my questions,basically there should be no problem for existing tenants ,new tenants will be able to have pigeons,no licence for pigeons is required
One problem is that there is no joint tenancies of allotments so if the registered tenant passed away the Council have the right to evict any partners from the allotment

James Goldsborough and Alyson have agreed to sponsor Gien again there is £100 for the best 2 bird performance
Thanks to James and Alyson

Alan Brown

Due to the unavailability os Shildon on and Saturdays in November of December this years Presentation night will be held on FRIDAY 13th November 2020 at Shildon Civic Hall secretaries please don’t clash

Alan Brown

Some notes from last nights meeting
Officials as 2019
Weather Committee M Wade , S Meadows and P Matthews
Emergency Committee M Wade, S Meadows , P Matthews T Coils and A Brown
Liberations
Old Birds all up together
Young Bird FIRST 4 races
Group 1 Consett
Group 2 Tyne Derwent,Annfield Plain and Newcastle
Group 3 Darlington ,Cockfield,Crook West Durham ,Deerness Valley
First 2 YB races group1 and 2 will be at Wetherby,group 3 at Wakefield
3rd race group 1 and 2 at Wakefield, group 3 at Thoresby Hall

Peter Caine and Andrew Morgan have been involved it getting a new trophy to the WDA
The trophy will be called the WDA General Champions Trophy and will be awarded to the loft with the best average velocity over all of the WDA races 2 inland old bird nationals ,yearling Classic,young bird National and 5 channel races 9 in total
The member needs to time a bird in each race and by adding all the times and the flying distances a velocity can be obtained , the bird does not have to be in the first 100 of the Amalgamation

Was it not discussed to basket Friday night and race Saturday weather permitting rather than basketing Saturday afternnon
Alan Todd

Date. Race. Dispatch
4th April. Wakefield. Friday
11th April. Thoresby Hall. Friday
18th April. Leicester. Friday
25th April. Peterborough. Friday
2nd May. Billericay. Friday
9th May. Maidstone Nat. Friday
16th May. Leicester. Friday
23rd May. Arras. Thursday
30th May. Maidstone Nat. Friday
6th June. Roye Queens Cup. Thursday

I received a message today to say that Norman had passed away this morning
I first meet Little Norman ,as he was affectionately known, in the early 1970s when I was a surveyor with the local authority and Norman was a bricklayer with them
He then started helping out the late Banty Emerson ,although not a partner he helped out a lot
Norman eventually flew on his own in Billy Row HS and for a while was Secretary of the club
In the 1990s he finished on his own and traveled to Tow Law and formed the partnership of Snowdon Son and Spence with some considerable success

Agm will be held on Wednesday 29th January 2020 at Esh Winning
8.00 pm start , observers are welcome

Alan Brown