Bobcat in a Box Mystery Package - Day 12

[davidn]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjHcP9hVM1E&hd=1

This is it - this is the punchline to the entire series. There's no point in continuing. I looked it up afterwards - the bloody place doesn't even exist.

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[xaq.livejournal.com]

As I mentioned in the YouTube comments, this appears to be an official certificate from the Royal Pigeon Racing Association (http://www.rpra.org/) (which, according to their Wikipedia entry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Pigeon_Racing_Association), is headed up by none other than Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II herself!).

I didn't find anything on a "Kings Lynn South Road Flying Club" either, but I did find a South Road in Kings Lynn in the UK on Google Maps (https://www.google.com/maps/place/S+Rd,+King's+Lynn,+Norfolk+PE33+0DR,+UK/@52.6423098,0.4566008,17.96z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x47d82113cf6482cf:0x8344c90a0d77148c). No sign of pigeon coops on what there was of that road...very nice houses, though.

[xaq.livejournal.com]

Seems I bull's-eyed the location after all! I did a little more research on it this morning (having nothing better to do since I'd forgotten to set my clock back an hour last night for Daylight Savings Time), and I found this:

The Medway South Road Flying Club (http://www.medway-srfc.co.uk/)

They used to be stationed at Manor Farm, which is right on South Road in Kings Lynn. (If you click the Google Maps link I provided above, it's the longer of the two little off-shoots of South Road.)

So yeah, I'm about 99% certain this is where your certificate came from.

[xaq.livejournal.com]

Oh, and if you were curious, I found the eBay auction BCiaB bought this from. (http://www.ebay.com/itm/Racing-Pigeon-First-Prize-Certificate-Glossy-Paper-Originally-From-England-/261626756420?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3cea2b7d44)

Apparently it bought it from a "RecycleDavid." Weird.

[crassadon.livejournal.com]

It is a very nice certifica-

oh.
At least it's interesting.