Selected Writings of
ROD ADAMS
A Collection of Articles
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by well known scribe Rod Adams
A collection of Rod’s articles about his
early life, his travels, special people,
special pigeons and much more...
“Progressing through the ranks from his ‘pudding
club’ days Rod, who has kept pigeons all his life,
joined his first registered club, the Raglan HS, in
1959.
Sprint racing lost out to distance racing by 1971
when he became obsessed with winning the Up
North Combine from Bourges, its longest race.
Pursuing this goal, and only this goal, it took him a
mere 20 years to achieve it!
His chosen career was laboratory technology and
he spent 42 years working in this field retiring early
as Departmental Superintendent from the Physiology
Department of Newcastle University in 1966 which
gave him the time and money to see a bit of the world
travelling around Europe, South America, South
Africa and briefly to Asia in pursuit of his twin
hobbies of pigeon racing and bird – watching.
Writing about pigeons and his life in general beganin the early seventies in his pre-computer days for which he blames Dr Richard Asher, the father of Jane
Asher. A man much admired by Rod his advice to would-be writers was to write about what they knew
best, hence Rod has always written about himself and how pigeons have shaped his life and where they
have led him.
Now retired from the racing scene he maintains a loft of about 30 pairs of breeders the produce of
which go to others race, to one man in particular a close friend of over 60 years.
He lives where he has always lived in the North East of England. He likes it there!” –
Lee Fribbins, EditorUK £11.95
UK £11.95 including p&p
A5 364 pages • b/w photos
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