Dan Wheeldon News Today

AN interesting headline in the 1929 Craven Herald caught my eye ‘Bracewell Vicar’s Pet Robin’, although it was equally the photograph that stood out. With the strapline ‘ Bird that prefers pastry’ the story described how the Rev H West had a pet robin, and Mr West was as friendly with ‘Rob’ the robin as he was with his rough-haired terrier. The very tame Rob however, dared not accompany the vicar to church or to school, because that was the territory of another, wilder, robi...