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once I have transferred the old film it is very good onto pc, i can take some stills from it and I will then be able to send them upto you, maybe a few weeks yet though.

Funny really cos he was one of my favourite riders, always worth seeing Lynn at Wimbledon, he won individual one year and his wife had to present him with the trophy! That was in the days when every club had two great riders and if you missed a league match they didnt come back until the following year, rather than 3 weeks later as it is now.

I remember him starting at Barrow and you could see then he was going places, some great footage of him at Rye House on the Days Gone By video (Vol.1) guess I need to get issue 3 of BackTrack. Have you still got any Tony?

Jumping the gun?, he said how old was he in 1960, not 61!!! haha, where do you store all this info?, footage has come to light of Yarmouth and will be on days gone by Vol. 5, a long with Norwich, Eastbourne, Wimbledon and hopefully Southampton along with much more. Ken

Yeah you rname came up in coversation with Mike Bennett the other day!

I have a few in my collection!

Can we have a article on these two greats -please?

My good ol mate Dave # Name Removed # has come up with loads of old cine, hopefully we will have some Southampton footage, thanks dave. Keep it coming folks.

I would dearly love to say how good this book is, but it dropped on the mat, my better half picked it up and said thats one of your xmas presents and took it and hid it! oh well role on xmas day!

Rob123, Mine too!! I forgot to change my post, but I've over written the file. I have a few Andrew Silver races on video though. If you want I can go through them and put them onto either a tape or a DVD for you. E-mail me your address if you like. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I have quite few home video's of him at Eb in the 90's, not wonderful quality, but good memories!

Andy Buck is a police man I think in Peterborough

I have the video of him winning the NLRC and a few others as well

Forgive my ignorance on these matters, but don't Sky Sports own the exclusive rights to show PL speedway? Or in their case, not show PL Speedway? No idea about the CL though. Just my thoughts and I could be wrong... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> They do indeed and this avenue has beenm looked at, think we need to wait until the new sky deal is done and dusted before we can go any further. big problem is it's cost a lot of money to film for TV, we are not talking £2k camera you buy in the superstores, we are talking big money. to film and produce 20 x 30min progs would cost around £6-8k each, then you have to pay the people to do it! I know because T2TV have been looking into it.

Thanks norm, will be making contact with him.

Does anyone have contact numbers for the following; Reg Trott. Dave Lanning. Lauire Sims. Mac Woolford. Simon Bruce. Roger Johns. Bobby McNeil. Many thanks

NOT HEARD, WILL TRY AND FIND OUT.

Don't know if terry Stone or Bob Dugard read this, but I wonder if they remember when the hose was used on the Rayleigh riders as they came round on alap of honour, Bob had the hose, terry had the fist!, I was only young, well youger than I am now, but it was great to see, I thought it was so funny, terry didn't!!

Can't recall if it was THAT particular Hackney / Wimbedon clash Ken but do remember what you are referring to! Must say, before explaining how that blank space came about, it was agreed (within reason!) between the two promotions in those days that neither would worry too much about what one said about the other - afterall it was all about pre-match build up. Sadly, in modern times thanks to the "football mentality" of some, I doubt you could do it. Anyway on that particular occasion, people should firstly remember that there were no such wonderful things as personal computers, emails etc etc. I can't recall the name of the programme printers we were using in those days but I seem to remember that they were based near London Bridge. I used to have to compile the programme and write any articles using a somewhat ancient portable typewriter and literally pin those articles, together with any photos etc to the relevant page where they were to go. (probably haven't explained that too well but I'm sure people will get the idea!) and would normally get the programme in the post by the midday collection on the Saturday by guaranteed delivery so that it would arrive at the printers first thing Monday morning. (thank goodness times have moved on!) I had been promised a photo to fill that particular space you refer to which SHOULD have arrived in the Saturday morning post - yes there WAS such a thing back then! Anyway it didn't arrive! Undeterred I thought, "OK it'll be here first thing Monday and I can deliver it and the rest of the programme to the printers on my way to work in the City." Monday came, the postman came....the photo didn't! Snookered! (for want of a better word and remembering this is a family forum!) and late for work already I simply HAD to use a bit of ingenuity! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Shame really beacuse a lot of the fun has been taken out of the sport, the burning hats of Johnnie H, the Leaping Lens, The Mularkeys, great memories, times may have changed, but memories live on....

I remember when Hackney Raced Wimbledon in the PL cup final, and couldnt think of anything nice to put so left the page blank - remember that Bryn???

yeah what a great lady she was, worked so hard at Kingsmead. Of all the Dery matches those are the most missed, didnt matter if it was 57-21 or 40-38 it was a great match.

I remember some Canterbury fans lifting the then new Eastbourne calapsable fence of it's hinges to get a race delayed, I still keep in touch with those who did it too!!, what great derbys they were. - well when we won 'em!!

There are so far 4 x 1 hour tapes or dvd's cost is £14 each. available from the adress in Backtrack or if you haven't got Backtrack, (shame on you it's a superb publication) Ken Burnett 23 Eastbourne Road, WESTHAM, Pevensey, East Sussex BN24 5NE.

Latest news to come through is some footage of Norwich and Great Yarmouth from late 40's and early 50's, keep it coming it's alll wonderful however long or short the footage is.

OK bear with me and I will see what I can find, the DGB ones are complete as they are, but will look out the oldies.

Hey I know him well, he is on some of the Rye House stuff, was talking to him about it when I saw him at Rye, think I also have some of him at Milton Keynes for Rye House, will have a check, but have some 3000 meetings and although listed will have to find a spare few hours! Also interviewed him at Mildenhall when the Rockets made their comeback along with Karl Fiala.