Midland Red

Fighting Bee in Black & Gold

Have you seen this? https://www.curtis-sport.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=2543

Oh dear. Peter York.

Gate 1 was the master!

Highly recommended is the “Speedway Scrapbook” group on Facebook - don’t know what the link is

Can confirm Derick is the spelling registered for his birth record!

Me too!!!!

Save Oxford Stadium has a new Instagram page This page will show pictures from all events that took place at the Stadium. It’s on Instagram as save_oxford_stadium. Install the app to follow photos and videos.

Very difficult to separate the last six behind a runaway no.1 Nigel Boocock, Ray Wilson, Terry Betts, Malcolm Simmons, Martin Ashby, John Louis, Eric Boocock

Very sorry to read of the passing of Eric Linden RIP sir!

I’m on my last batch of holiday photos, then I’m back into Ancestry with a vengeance

Yes, Steve - there’s plenty if you dig deep enough Also the British Newspaper Archive is awash with speedway reports - eg reports of Tom Farndon’s crash, hospitalisation, death and funeral

Same 8 - not surprisingly

I saw 8 out of the 16 - must mean I’m halfway to being .... very, very old indeed

In the good old days, riders would just have got on with their day jobs, and survived If and when this is all over, perhaps we all, riders in particular, can get back to basics

How much? Any reduction for us oldies?

Attending a World Final, not knowing at the start who was going to win, seeing it all unfold, and the new World Champion being crowned. Those feelings, emotions, have all been lost, thanks to OOFC and its successors. Yes, there are good GPs, some great meetings, but they’re not much different from any other good or great individual meetings. World Final night can never be replicated - they were SPECIAL.

Flying!

It was a trifle damp! Enjoyed Olsen not winning! Was my last plane trip - in a Comet! Never flown again, never wanted to.

I only saw two finals abroad, 1970 and 1977 - they naturally stand out for me

My Sky box is broke - engineer not coming till 26th So, I can’t watch the football and rugby league that’s not on the tv

I stand by my comments, based on what John told me himself when I visited him in 2014 PS Yes, a great article!

https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/18184703.greyhound-racing-not-cruel-says-oxford-stadium-businessman/

Plenty to chose from for a competitive team - Harris, Nicholls, King, Garrity, Andersen, Auty, Sargent, Kennett, Bates, Howarth, Morris, etc

Yes he did, but continues to this day to suffer ill-effects from the crash well over 40 years ago