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I have a Miscellaneous page on my www.defunctspeedway.co.uk website. Visit My Website On that page is 7 photos of female riders. I would be interested to here from anyone with other photos of Lady Riders

Thanks Guys. Fairly mild here in North East England. Merry Christmas from the Defunct Site and Newcastle Speedway History to all that use these pages. Lets hope 2009 is a good year

Hi Yesterdays Man, I was not aware of any censoring on this thread. I do not subscribe to name calling myself and wish that others didn't either. I suppose the thread has drawn better attention to the Reg Fearman pages because of the controversy.

Yes and good ole Len Silver has the right name too. I think we should drop the Jewish names thread before we upset someone, too late! I have already done it. The thread is about publicising the Reg Fearman pages on the website afterall

Hi Tsunami, I never knew that Gil was Jewish, I suppose there is a clue in his surname (No! I don't mean finch!). Another fact that may have escaped many Newcastle fans was that Reg Fearman had a 50% stake in Newcastle when we reopened in 1961

Hi, I have just put 3 Belle Vue Colts team photographs on the Defunct Tracks I need help with naming the riders. Please visit the website the photos are on the "Name The Rider" page

Reg has been busy with his memoirs, there are now 3 webpages of his activities. His pages can be found here Reg Fearman

The Reg Fearman pages of The Defunct Website have Reg's Story, Jack Gate's 80th Birthday Party, Igor Plechanov's visit to the UK, The low down on Reading, Reg and Ivan Mauger, Alf Weedon's 80th Birthday and the life of Eric Chitty. There is a lot more to come from Reg on these webpages so please visit the site and if you want to "speak" to Reg via the website, don't hesitate email me.

Yes Arnie good point about Tilehurst, I will do that too

In the late 20's and 1930's cigarette cards often featured speedway. They are now a good source of information. The cards are now highly collectible and they look brilliant scanned onto a website. I hope to make the Defunct Site the sole website for these cards. So have a look at the Card Sets page of the site and be entertained. If anyone has any cards the site would like to hear from you email me Defunct Site

Hi Reading Fans, Strange as it must seem to you, Smallmead is now a Defunct Venue and I have started a Reading page on the Defunct Tracks website. Ex Promoter Reg Fearman is currently looking through his Reading memorabilia and will shortly be contributing to the page. I would like to hear from fans with items they can scan to make the Reading page better than any other teams in the A-Z So come on send me an email jskinner06@btinternet.com

I feel as owner of the site Reg is contributing to that I should respond. Firstly Neil Middleditch has done so much for the sport, let me say well done Middlo and keep it up. Reg Fearman also did so much for the sport, introduced new venues and chaired the BSPA. Reg is big enough to answer any criticisms but we think an Internet Forum is not the appropriate place to do that. The original post on this this website was made to let speedway fans know that some of Reg's personal photo's and thoughts have been captured on the Defunct Speedway website, please have a look and let me (John) know what you think.

PM sent Marty The Reg Fearman pages now cover Reg and Reading and also his 1955 meeting with 16 yr old Ivan Mauger

Thanks for checking for me. I will just have to disappoint his Grandaughter

There are some photos of California on www.defunctspeedway.co.uk check out the A-Z section for California

I got this info from Reg whom I interrupted whilst he was on holiday Bluey Scott is Eric Scott, originates from Sydney, lived for some time in Adelaide now lives on the Gold Coast at Burleigh Waters, is 77 years of age, raced for Glasgow and Motherwell in the 50´s and raced for me in the 60´s at Middlesbrough and Long Eaton. Reg has his own page on www.defunctspeedway.co.uk

Hi Marty If you go down to Berrington remember to take your camera and photograph anything that is left of the track for me Daniel Todan

Yeah Falkirk Bandit, thank you. The site is growing daily and big thanks to all who have scanned pictures, programmes badges etc. Keep them coming please. I'll bet falkirk bandit does not like my other site (Eh yes the Newcastle one)

Frank Malouf's grandson emailed me asking about his grandad. Does nyone have any info on Frank that I can pass on to his grandson

Reg Fearman now has his own page(s) on www.defunctspeedway.co.uk have a look at Regs pictures etc. Firstly his friend Jack Gates birthday party and secondly how Reg brought Igor Plechanov over to be guest of honour of the VSRA. Reg is one of the entrepeneaurs of british speedway and I am happy to have him on board the defunct site

I have 5 webpages showing dozens of old Speedway Bikes. To improve the webpages, my knowledge of the machinery needs to be backed up by a speedway mechanic. If you can help send me an email jskinner06@btinternet.com

I received an email from the grandaughter of Bert shown below Hi -My grandfather was Herbert Horace Ivey or Bert Ivey. We thought he was a racer at Harringay. He later went to Australia in the 1950s. People have said he was a popular rider - not sure of the era - between the wars or pre or ...? Do you have any suggestions? Sarah So was Bert Ivey well known and what teams did he ride for

If you enjoy old speedway and have not yet had a look at www.defunctspeedway.co.uk then pay the website a visit. the misc and name the riders pages should entertain you. recent addition to the Misc page is Acorn Dobson so named because of the shape of his head. Have a browse and help me build the site to an even greater height

I have been told that one rider at least wore clogs when he rode, He was Riskit Rileys father also known as Riskit Riley. He rode at Audenshaw. Details at www.defunctspeedway.co.uk Audenshaw page. does anyone know of any other riders using clogs

I have recieved an email from Ken Ward who is 82 yrs old. Ken remembers from his childhood watching Riskit, Kens uncles were friends of him. I have started a page for Audenshaw on the defunct website and put Kens email on there. I have asked Ken for more info about Audenshaw and Riskit Riley so watch that space