SPONSORS MESSAGE 2015


is even older than my company which wasn’t established until 1880. However, it is true to say that a show wasn’t held every year and that on more than one occasion it was thought that the show may fold for good. It was a dedicated group of people that got the


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show going again in 1940 after a fire had destroyed the venue and a replacement couldn’t be found. It was then that Cage & Aviary magazine took over running the National and did so until 2004.


40 BIRD SCENE


y my reckoning this years National will be the 139th and the first National can be traced back as far as the 1860s. This


The show and also sales days were then faced with an entirely new problem. Foot and mouth and the restrictions on movement of livestock – this hit all bird clubs, and especially opens, hard. This was a restriction passed down in law by Government and many thought that this would end the shows, exhibitions and the type of members days that the Parrot Society had organised for years to enable aviculturists to buy and exchange stock. Fortunately, we had another dedicated group that decided that this shouldn’t happen and this came from The Parrot Society. Representing all of us, the work went on to find


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