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Keith Mott sends a Get Well message to

John Tyerman of Bracklesham Bay

John Tyerman has suffered some bad health in recent months and at this time is very un-well in hospital. I had a phone call yesterday from his wife, Linda, to say his problem was now under control, but he has had a couple of really bad weeks. On behalf of everyone at the London & South East Classic Club, ‘get well really soon, Johnny’.

John and I have been good friends for many years and we have been through several pigeon campaigns together, including serving on the N.F.C. and L. &S.E.C.C. committees and convoying pigeons together. We roomed together when we travelled for the National Flying Club committee meetings and in 2003 we convoyed the International birds to the waiting train in Belgium, when Brian Sheppard of Trowbridge won the race with his wonderful blue chequer cock, Champion ‘Legend’. When the members of the N.F.C. sent their birds to their first International, no one really knew what an outstanding success it would be and that British racing history was in the making. That Dax International marked the start of a new era in British long distance pigeon racing and John and I were very proud to be a part of it. John was a founder member of the London & South East Classic Club and in the early days of the club, he was one of the main workers in making it a success, including convoying the Classic birds out to France on a lorry. In those days John and his wife, Linda, lived in Dorking and he was a member of the famous ‘Dorking Mafia’, a band of fancier in the Box Hill area, who supported and worked very hard for the Classic. John was a great committee worker for the L&SECC for many years until he moved to Bracklesham Bay and was the Classic’s President for three years in the late 1990s.

Keith Mott (L&SECC President).

I have known John for a good many years and next to his family he has always had pigeon racing at the forefront of his mind. While being on the various committee’s he was always one of the stronger member’s whose thoughts were always with the sport and not his individual requirements from the pigeon racing like so many do. I was on the phone to Linda and she was telling me that she was going to the hospital later in the day and hoping to bring him home no doubt he will be giving a few orders out as he relaxes in the chair. Elizabeth & myself wish John all the best in his current illness.

Les & Elizabeth