Parsloes 1928 nearly

For those who've yet to visit site, some amazing originally researched info. about the very origins of the sport in Kent with photos and details of the early efforts of the Bexleyheath club at Crayford. Really worth a visit and saving as a 'Favourite/Bookmark'!!

Or Barclay Boulevard!! By George, I'd like to have seen that!!

I'm sure there MUST be a road named after you in Widnes, Dean! Not flats - they're houses and indeed the Custom House street names reflect the greats of West Ham Stadium of old.. I must admit when I see things like Stadium Road when the stadium in question is long gone it does wind me up...

The only opening night I was involved in was at Plough Lane in 2002 and we had a massive crowd but didn't run out of progs even though we sold hundreds! We printed a MASSIVE amount - so many that there were still boxes and boxes of them in the track shop storeroom the day the GRA threw us out four years later!!!!! Note to self: print enough progs but not THAT many!!

WTF! It's a matter of FACT that Crayford won the SJL in 1983!! Can't believe you're trying to introduce doubt into this, gulp, 30 years later!!!!!

I think the point was that Kelvin was a Dons product and coming straight into the top league as a home-produced and basically local rider and then going onto such great things (albeit when riding for other clubs), makes him stand out to me above others who came to the Dons AFTER their greatest moments (like Simmo and DJ)...

Must be the work they did to extend the old East London Line (now 'Overground')..

Good man! A place in the team for Buzz! What about the Master of Plough Lane though..? No brakes, no fear!!

Weekday racing is fine in the NL! Five out of the eight clubs in the 2013 NL are weekday tracks!!

You're dead right Mark - we didn't need PP, as the Stocks/Bangers had - of course - been running at Plough Lane throughout the period. I do though remember Ian mentioning that subsequently it was said maybe LB Merton might have not got this completely right...? Regardless though, can't think PP or EHO objections would be any sort of problem bearing in mind the Bangers are there already. This really sounds hopeful and is just excellent news. Cheers for the details mate. Let's hope this one can get off the ground. Hope you'll be there as presenter as we need you back!!! Take care, D.

Short track has been a regular feature at the BMF most years since 2006... There has also in the past been quite extensive Vintage Speedway races too but maybe that's not happening this year?

Oh dear, perhaps someone should buy them!!!!!

WH Smith consistently a good place to get Speedway Star in the capital. I don't know ANY WH Smith branches where you can't see copies for sale. Which considering since 1991 there's only really been FIVE years when the sport has been staged in London ain't bad!!

Well one fact i do know about the various formats is that Crayford hold the record winning score in two of them! Most know that the Kestrels 1980 65-12 win over Workington was the 13 heat record but two years later in the 16 heat format Crayford set the record for THAT format beating Milton Keynes 76 -20 :approve:

Well, does seem a bit contrived to come up with a region never before described called 'Central Southern England'...!!! Guess they're referring to the loss of Reading and now Oxford. Places like Sittingbourne, Harlow, Crayford, Romford, Peterborough are too far east to be called 'central' but certainly Swindon would HAVE to be included in such a mythical 'region'..! Romford is indeed thriving : really big crowds on Fridays and Saturdays since the demise of the 'Stow. Amazing really that a track can run on those two successive nights and get big crowds on both. And it ALSO stages meetings on Mondays and Wednesdays too! Hardly a sport on its uppers! And I know what you mean when you say "the trouble with greyhound racing is now you can only treat it as a fun night out" but wouldn't it be great if more people regarded Speedway in the same way..: as a FUN, entertaining night out...?

To be honest though, I think the point of a discussion forum is to allow the discussion to go the way it wants, as an organic thing so to speak... Too many people on the BSF get over-concerned about changes in direction of a discussion. Think of conversations down the pub - you start talking about something and within no time you're debating an entirely different subject!!

Indeed! iris and sidney made comments so I couldn't resist! Sorry!!

No way in a milion years was Bergkamp a better player than Brady or Henry..! Bergkamp's career is smoke & mirrors..: the most over-rated footballer of all time. He only had one truly great season at Highbury: 1997/'98

Yes, Jacko was runner-up to one of MY all-time favourite riders, Joe Owen in the NNLRC at Plough Lane in '76

Jon Armstrong is indeed a true great at this level of Speedway - the sort of rider it's worth the admission money alone to see!

Well I doubt it though, not if both of the other two of you had it differently! Maybe I was rushing off to the station to get the train (could've been a later than normal finish) and so got heat 20 wrong...

Ah I will deffo need to get into my loft now coz I have completely different scores for Barney & Vic!!

Cheers mate - it's more my sanity than my physical well-being which is under threat when I venture into the loft! I can NEVER find what I'm bloody looking for!!!! Then the next time I go up there to look for something else, the first thing I stumble across is the thing I couldn't find for love nor money the previous time!!!

Well the prog's in the loft and might take a bit of locating but I shall endeavour to do so. And at same time could check that Heat 20 from the KTT! Are you planning to get along to Central Park this coming season? Would be great to see old Crayford faces there!!!

Hi mate, No, this meeting on a predictably rainy Tuesday made it to three heats! Crayford 12 (Laurie Etheridge 3[M]; Richard Davey 1; Garry May 0; Alan Sage 3[M]; Mike Bessent 2+1[PM] ; John Hooper 3 [M]) Stoke 5 (Trevor Charley 2; Tim Nunan 0: Stuart Mountford 0; Steve McDermott 2; Ian Robertson 1; Robert Dole 0; Gerry Hintz 0) (aband. after 3 heats – result does not stand) Barney finished on 5 points. Vic on 3. The winner was Tom Owen!!!!!