Zak Waters

Pigeon racing is a typically British sport (the same people who also invented cheese rolling where a large lump of cheese is rolled from the top of a hill and the competitors chase it down with some pretty spectacular sights, falls and broken limbs. Honestly, watch a video and thank me later). The sport thrived amongst Britain’s workers — miners, iron and steelworkers, shipbuilders — and it reached its peak by the early 1970s with over 130,000 members. As Thatcher came to power, however, and the