Elfyn 'Tex' Evans and David 'Dai Titanic' Davies. Local pigeon fanciers. They send their homers all over the country on the backs of lorries and on trains- back they come, unfailingly to Upper Cwmgrwfi.
Here is a very famous pigeon from the legendary Upper Cwmgrwfi Lofts: El Gran Senor. 
El Gran Senor was the only Welsh pigeon to serve in the Spanish Civil War- Cwmgrwfi Anarchists sent him out there in a show of solidarity to the Republican Forces in 1937. Of course, being a homer he was back within a week.
By the way , did you know that pigeons have been a great inspiration for poets in the past? John Keats' sonnet, On First Looking into Chapman's Homer, celebrates a famous bird of the Regency period.
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