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10/1 is the best price I've seen for Hans this weekend, though Stan james, Blue Square and Bet & Win have yet to post their odds. Hills pay e/w on the 1st 3 at 1/4 odds. Bet & Win have some interesting head to head prices for the whole series, trouble is you have to wait a long time for your payout.

Daily Mirror Final is definitely on there! I have bought off that particular seller 2 or 3 times. Search under his name.... "HiltonBaggie"

I was at Plough Lane that night too. I had a mate who worked behind the bar and can remember watching it on the box same as you. Can't remember a thing about the meeting though, I was still adjusting to watching NL racing I think.

good spot. They both look like Dave Baugh to me.

Racing at Melton Mowbray in 1949. (from Homes of British Speedway)

Quote from Martin Rogers book "In my View" "I don't blame Charles Ochiltree or Midland Sports for cashing in 11.58 acres of inner city development land. But I won't ever forgive them for the manner in which it was done" "We had not a word of warning, not a hint. We had gone through the rigmarole of moving house. The club had bought Mike Lanham and Eric Monaghan, when if we had known the closure was imminent, a loan deal or some temporary signings would have done just as well. I talked to riders about our on-going pland. We were already selling season tickets for 1984 when the news broke" All this bearing in mind that preliminary talks with developers and planning officials had begun 9 months before. No further comment necessary.

Refer to my earlier post, winners of the Midland Cup 3 times. In the early 70's this was quite a tough cup to win competed for by Coventry, Cradley, Wolves, Oxford and Swindon as well as the Lions.

According to the Speedway Yearbook 1982, under honours it reads... BL runners-up 1971 Second division runners-up 1951 Ko Cup finalists 1975 Under a seperate section it lists them as winners of the Midland Cup in 1951,1972 and 1974.

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Got my issue yesterday (usual excellent standard). What Tmc fails to mention is the undoubted highlight of this issue which is to be found in the Steve Bastable feature. Included in a 70's Potters team pic is a very youthful and hirsute Mr Van Straaten!!! Top pic!!!

Steady Eddie was born 20/08/1946, making him 22 when the 1968 final was held.

Switch on Sky Sports 1 right now and you can see the Shay as it is today, complete with real Speedway weather!!!

There was a good photo of the main stand at West Ham in the last issue of Backtrack magazine. Also Robert Bamford and John Jarvis produced 2 books entitled Track Photography that covered a lot of the defunct stadia.

Iris, Did they not have Motor Racing there into the 70's? Seems to ring a bell, so I guess the bikes could have used the same track. I lived in fairly nearby South Norwood for a year or so in the 90's and you were able to walk around the whole of the site at your leisure. I'm certain a local author had written a book/booklet about the sporting history of the site which might give you more info.

Billy Barrett? P.S. Loved those pics of the old Heathens, especially Sir Bernt.

Just finished reading issue 6 from cover to cover, and it continues the high standard set by the other 5. Many congratulations on such a brill mag. Intrigued to read that Andrew Silver doesn't feel ready to be interviewed yet. Particularly enjoyed reading Simon Cross's warm memories of his time at Dudley Wood and the photo of Custom House. What a great stadium that was! Following on from the theme of JB's recent tome, I would be interested to read interviews with other promoters of the time, hopefully they would prove to be as candid as Mr Berry.

Pete, Why wait 50 years? You can have my copy now for £12,999.

Shouln't you have said " I had the pleasure of watching Jancarz occasionally, and only from June onwards" Agree with the sentiments though, when he was there he was a top rider.

I think Peter Adams would have a good story to tell, there was a long interview with him in the S.Star last year that I found very interesting. For a warts and all tail, what about Michael Lee?

If you can get hold of Garry Middleton it won't be. Seriously, I don't know if Cas can be traced, I have seen similar requests on a number of forums over the past couple of years and there has been very little concrete news of his whereabouts.

3. Jamie Luckhurst?

The Football link was more importantly noticed by my better half (joint a/c you see) who wanted to know what I had spent 15 quid on to do with Football. Whereas £15 spent on Speedway is classed as acceptable.

Can confirm that Edgar is living in Northern Ireland, between Belfast and Newcastle, and was running a dry cleaning business (I think). Last time I heard of him he was a regular attender at the many road races held over here.

I don't think you could say they would have been stupid to put Holta in. The guy finished 8th in 2003 and was hampered by a neck injury a large part of last year before showing his true form in the last 3 GP's. He certainly would have done himself justice at this level in 2005 and hopefully will be back in for 2006. I am certain that if there were 6 seeded spots available then he would have been in. His league form in Sweden and Poland shows that he is a quality act.

The best Czech rider (Brhel) is only no 19 with 32 point, and the Dryml brothers is even worse, so no Czech. The only rider who is outside top 13 and should be concidered is Holta, but then the roumors says that Norway is not on the the GP program 2005! so!!!! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> In which case Rune will be cursing the fact that he and Crumpy were away in the 1st running of his semi last night. Even 4th place in the Final would have given him the same amount of points as Sullivan.