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Information about pigeon fancier Vanbruaene André

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(04/02/2011) Style furniture from Lauwe "Nature" - Part 6

My pigeons, says Vanbruaene, are given honey with lemon for two days by the homecoming, with each pigeon being generously fed in its box. There is a drinking pot hanging on every box and each box contains a dish of food.
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(03/02/2011) Style furniture from Lauwe "den Elektriek" - Part 5

The current stock maker is den Elektriek. I have four breeding cocks from him breeding. They are "The Marathon", "The St. Vincent", "The Notaris" and "The Baron".
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(31/01/2011) Stijlmeubelen uit Lauwe "El Torero" - Deel 8 & slot

We hebben met de eigenaar gesproken van De Stier, De Jonge Stier, De Luik, duiven van het soort dat de naam Stierenras meekreeg. Dat is allemaal lang geleden wuift André Vanbruaene weg.
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(30/01/2011) Style furniture from Lauwe "The Stier pedigree" - Part 4

After a few years Uncle Geroom stopped farming. André Vanbruaene helped him start up a furniture business in Kuurne which he would run with the growing boys.
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(26/01/2011) Stijlmeubelen uit Lauwe "L'amateur parle" - Deel 7

Na zovele nationale overwinnngen, na alle successen op de fond, is mijn schoonste herinnering deze van mijn eerste international Barcelona. Dat is het mooiste wat ik in mijn schone jaren beleefd heb. Toen sliep ik in geen acht dagen.
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(20/01/2011) Patrick Delrue-Vanbruaene - Lauwe (BE) … allowed the Vanbruaene-star shine again in the jubilee year ‘100 year Andre Vanbruaene’!

We are writing about ‘April 1910’, the birth month of the late pigeon celebrity Andre Vanbruaene from Lauwe! Today we are 100 years… a ‘century’ later… the ‘Vanbruaene star’ is still shining just as brightly in the pigeon sky.
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(21/12/2010) Style furniture from Lauwe "Stichelbaut via Labeeuw" - Part 3

The entire history of my success from Barcelona has its origin which begins and ends with the "Zwarte Chateauroux" from Daniel Labeeuw. He won the first national and I won the second with "De Stier".
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(15/12/2010) Style furniture from Lauwe "The Louis" - Part 2

The story began on the homestead by the youngest brother from father. There was a castle next to it in Rekkem where André and his comrades used to catch a wild rabbit and sell it for extra pocket money.
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(13/12/2010) Style furniture from Lauwe "De Vlaschaard" - Part 1

This story, dear readers, begins with the first footsteps of the twentieth century in the region of Heusden, near Ghent. Two West-Flemish farm children from Rekkem and Lauwe have established themselves near the valley of the Schelde.
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(28/03/2008) Vanbruaene André, "A Legend"

In spring of 1999 we said farewell to André Vanbruaene, one of the all time great men in the pigeon sport.