I thought you might like to take a look at the Old English Foxhound which is having a rise in popularity within even Modern Foxhound packs. Of course the Percy Foxhounds (Duke of Northumberland’s, Alnwick). Would be the purest within the traditional packs of...
Well – so privileged. There are some quality people in East Anglia and the hounds are not bad either! (have you ever been?) well end of the earth for some you know. There are quite a selection of hounds to see. Today the Thurlow Foxhounds Puppy Show...
What a marvellous opportunity to see hounds of different types in East Anglia all parading on the same day at Euston Rural Pastimes. I was particularly pleased to see a beagle I walked for the Stour Valley ‘WARLOCK’ – enjoying the party with the big...
This was the last official engagement for Joe Tesseyman Huntsman of the Essex & Suffolk parading the Foxhounds at their point-to-point at Higham, Suffolk today. Joe has been five seasons hunting these hounds – they love him. The Essex & Suffolk are the...
When we bid a farewell to the season and turn out our hunters to grass, ‘twould be surely the blackest of treason to go without filling a glass. To the men who have furthered our pastime by lending their fields for the fun! Here’s ‘The...
William Henry Ogilvie wrote: Always our fathers were hunters, Lords of the pitiless spear, chasing in English woodlands the wild white ox and the deer, feeling the edge of their knife-blades, trying the pull of their bows, at a sudden foot in the forest thrilling to...