Just wondered if anyone had any interesting information about Rotherham Speedway. Purely because I knew it was relatively close to where I currently live and, after doing a bit of searching, I found on the defunct speedway track site that it is actually only about 400m away as the crow flies! Having had a wander down there, it seems that the rough shape of the track might even still be able to traced. There is some development on one corner however.
I've seen reported crowd figures ranging anywhere from 3,000 to 20,000 people from the era they ran in 1929/30 and I know that only individual meetings were run, never a league team. I think the track was sometimes referred to as Hellaby and sometimes Bramley.
http://www.defunctspeedway.co.uk/Rotherham.htm