Thoresby Hall 15th April 2016 Convoyers Report

Submitted by A Brown on Sat, 15/04/2017 - 18:54

Fri ,rang Martin and Stephen vote was 3 to 0 to go, informed Alan

Fri 5.00 arrived at yard ,picked up Deerness Valley,part West Durham ,Crook, Cockfield and Darlington. Met up at Leeming Bar at 9.45 ,travelled to Racepoint with 4 wagons and 2 trailers arriving on site ar 12.20, birds watered and opened up.

Up at 6.00 full light cloud cover and cold , cloud breaking by 7.30, waited till 9,00 as Durham Combine and Up North Combine liberating approx 6 mile in front with 4 cuts between them.

Birds liberated at 9,00 in a west north west wind increasing on route, most birds cleared instantly except for a couple of hundred which took a couple of minutes to go , setting off back to yard dropping off baskets on way

Basket numbers

Annfield Plain. 53
Sacriston. 51
Deerness Valley 40
Crook. 20
Cockfield. 42
Darlington. 28
Tyne Derwent. 57
West Durham. 79
Consett. 87
Newcastle. 51

Total. 508

Peter Mathews , posted by Alan Brown