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Tales of war, pigeons, tomatoes and grapes


Family memories with Fay Hampson.
My grandfather loved fishing, but I never had him down as a hunting or shooting man. Imagine my surprise when, a few months ago, my brother told me that grandad had told him he d had a gun to shoot the awks .
Now my grandfather s name was Herbert Hampson, but as a true son of Denbighshire and the Shropshire borders, he took little notice of the initial aitch and often made me laugh by telling me he signed his name Apostrophe dot Apostrophe ampson! The penny dropped! But what hawks did he shoot and why?
My brother and I were looking at the photograph shown here, taken in 1910 when grandad was 25, of him and his friends outside their pigeon loft. ....

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