DeepSpinLofts
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May 14, 2008
8:14 PM
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==THE RISE OF THE PENSOMS==
In 1932 a Catholic priest who loved pigeons imported rollers from a young man named William H. Pensom, born and reared in Harborne, England, but residing in Smethwick, England, along the borders of the Black Country.
The Catholic priest known as Father Schlattmann of St. Louis, Ohio imported eight Birmingham Roller pigeons from Pensom and began breeding kits of rollers that were the envy of all who saw them. Other imports followed, and the good Father shared his stock with others.
The “Pensoms” became a craze. These new English imports represented the best of the bloodlines of the best ten to twenty fanciers Pensom had become acquainted within Harborne and the Black Country.
The Whittinghams and other pre-existing Birmingham Rollers in North America soon became called “American” rollers to distinguish them from the new English imports, which were called “Pensom” rollers. These New English imports distinguished themselves from the traditional “American” rollers by flying lower, usually 200 to 600 feet; by rolling shorter, from 15 to 30 feet; by rolling with much more impressive velocity; and by flying as kits for only twenty minutes to a maximum of about one hour. Little did Father Schlattmann know, he had dropped a snowball that would trigger an avalanche of change in the North American roller fancy.
NOTE: The Black Country comprises parts of the city of Wolverhampton, and the towns of;
Aldridge, Bilston, Blackheath, Brierley Hill, Brownhills, Coseley, Cradley, Darlaston, Dudley, Gornal Great Bridge, Halesowen, Kingswinford, Lye, Netherton, Oldbury, Quarry Bank, Rowley Regis, Sedgley, Stourbridge, Tipton, Walsall, Warley, Wednesbury, Wednesfield, West Bromwich, Willenhall and Wordsley.
Marcus
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