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We are Barbara as pets but just before Barbara acquired our
& Tony Darmanin new Bulldog, we had had a bad experience
and live with our with a C Section which our Staffie bitch Jane
bulldogs in the had to endure having her first litter resulting in
beautiful rolling a hysterectomy. She subsequently mothered
countryside of rural many Bulldog litters until she died aged 13. We
Shropshire. then realised that all breeds may, at some time,
need a c section and this did not necessarily just
Mary and Leslie Lewis, Barbara’s parents apply to Bulldogs as we had been led to believe
owned Bulldogs before she was born, in fact, and had stopped us getting one in the past.
her dad owned his first Bulldog in 1925 when he Earl Benjamin proved to be a good show dog
was 13 years old. Upon his retirement in 1977 winning many trophies and prizes at Open and
he decided to breed again and produced a litter Championship shows and we were overjoyed
which contained Earl Benjamin that Barbara when he obtained his stud book entry He can be
bought from her dad paying him the full market found on most of our pedigrees. It was 1979 and
price. we were now hooked Barbara soon acquired
an older bitch Leebarton Isis and under Ellen &
Previously we had Staffordshire Bull Terriers Les Cotton’s (Aldridge Bulldogs) tutelage she
bred our first bulldog litter, we joined several
1979 Tony & Bulldog Clubs and became committee members
Earl Benjamin of the Birmingham & M.C. Bulldog Club and
for a couple of years Tony was its Secretary.
Tony was later invited and joined the Committee
of The Bulldog Club Incorporated, began
stewarding and started judging the Breed in the
UK.

Tony’s job as an International Regional Sales
Manager working for an American multinational
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