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Kenny was at Newcastle when he was 17 ish. He is covered briefly in the History Website www.newcastlespeedwayhistory.co.uk Does anyone have any photos in Newcastle colours, I can use?

Hi Tom, I have a couple of photos of Canadian pre war rider George Pepper on my website. He rode for Newcastle 1938 and 39

=================================================== Another picture where I need your help in putting names to the riders. The pictures are not of Newcastle Riders

Yes slipped up there! Gordon will be 98 in 2009 so I dont think he will be winning any races in 2009. He did win the very first race at Brough Park in a time of around 97 seconds. Not many tracks who operated pre war, can say they have the guy who won their first ever races still around

I agree with you Norbold. "Our" rider Gordon Byers is second to Jack Ormston. Gordon won the first ever race at Brough Park way back on 17th May 2009

My friend Ian Huntly has supplied a picture of his Dads bike rebuilt in the 1950's Ian says: - In the late 50's, Dad bought a big box full of motorcycle parts which proved to be a Douglas Speedway bike !! Some parts were damaged or missing so I remember Dad fabricating new bits in his garage. He gave the bike a very special gear box and some special-metal pushrods. He sat down and built this race bike which ended up being entered at Druridge Bay Sand Track, ridden on the sand by a rider Dad picked for the "job". It was a heavy bike with straight through exhaust but it bump started immediately. It sounded glorious. Dad sold it to the local grass track sidecar champion who added a sidecar and did well with it for a couple of years. I wish I knew where it is now !! Can you help please ?? email JOHN I have put the picture on my first bikes page on www.newcastlespeedwayhistory.co.uk have a look and see if you can help us locate an amazing old bike

Hi All Been receiving new info and pictures for www.newcastlespeedwayhistory.co.uk Lots of "New" pre war pictures etc Updated Pre War Part 1 page Updated History of Dirtrack Racing page and two excellent new photos on the "name the Rider" page, If you don't know about this website then you are missing a lot. I spend hours on it every week. Have a look and send me some feedback and better still dig out the memoribilia and share it with us

Hi 2 mins Thanks for the tip. I have researched local press microfilm a couple of times without any luck. Does anyone have a contact email or telephone number for Graham Fraser

Hi 2 mins Thanks for the tip. I have researched local press microfilm a couple of times without any luck. Does anyone have a contact email or telephone number for Graham Fraser

There was a track at Hillheads Whitley Bay in 1929. Has anyone any pictures. I know its a tall order as the track only operated for a couple of months

The son of Harry Huntly has been in touch with me and through the pages of www.newcastlespeedwayhistory.co.uk we can share the pictures oh Harry, who at 6ft 6inches tall must have been the tallest ever rider unless you know different?

I agree Jack O, when Chris had his accident we were not told until after the match ended and I remember leaving the stadium along with others in a hushed silence. No hyseteria that I can remember

Hi Frigbo I can help a bit with Newcastle riders or you can have permisiision to take what you need from my history site

I have some Sunderland Pictures etc on my history site, have a look at http://www.newcastlespeedwayhistory.co.uk/...al_ventures.htm Cannot see both Sunderland and Newcastle running at the same time but who knows if Newcastle ever close down again

There are more Bobby Duncans than Jason Crumps! At Newcastle we had Ron Henderson who struggled for a while then started riding well only to chuck the towel in and retire Anyone know what Ron is doing now?

Just added a load of new stuff to www.newcastlespeedwayhistory.co.uk not just Newcastle covered on the site. Many people have contributed to the site. Ivan Mauger Dave Gifford Ian Hoskins Ian Thomas are names that everyone knows there are others too who regularily send stuff or make suggestions why not have a look and help me make it even bigger and better

I have pictures of a BSA speedway Bike and a couple of HD's on my website www.newcastlespeedwayhistory.co.uk The BSA was the poor mans speedway bike. Harley made a single cylinder "peashooter for speedway but Indian v twins were used on speedway can you scan the pictures and email them to me so I can identify them properly

Anyone want to discuss old bikes with me. Douglas Rudge Jap etc for definite but the others too. AJS BSA Scott and all. either on this forum or by email

congratulations Steve on compiling something unique. I know how much time my own site took to put together. You must have spent a lot of time on the listing and it is something we will go back to again.

Wembley ended up with a number of Newcastle riders matey, Gordon, Harry and Norman all are shown on my site www.newcastlespeedwayhistory.co.uk I have other pictures not on the site which we can discuss in time

Anders is a piece of the Jigsaw missing from my site www.newcastlespeedwayhistory.co.uk Tony Mac and I recently exchanged emails and as a "thank you" to me displaying a Backtrack ad on my site he is gonna send me a couple of pics of Newcastle's only top line Swede for my site. Mr Michanek could have become a BIG BIG named Diamond if only we hadn't done one of our frequent closing down acts. He may have still been ours when he won the title Backtrack is an excellent mag lets hope it is around for many years to come and if you like history and old photos etc come on and have a look at this! www.newcastlespeedwayhistory.co.uk Just click on the History of Speedway On Tyneside link at the bottom of this post

Like Backtrack Try a history website where you could be in the thick of it. If you can spare an hour or two get on line at www.newcastlespeedwayhistory.co.uk And send me a few items to add to it!

Don't know much about Bob Andrews but the other rider Bill Andrews is included in the Newcastle Speedway History website. A couple of pictures of him are on there if anyone is interested: - vist the page as below http://www.newcastlespeedwayhistory.co.uk/1960s.htm Like Tsunami says he was a 60's newcastle rider and one of many N Z riders we had in them days

1929 was a great year for Dirt Track or speedway. Tracks opening all over the country. Tyneside had four:- Burnhills in the village of Greenside Co Durham. Whitley Bay on the north east coast. Newcastle Gosforth Park. Newcastle Brough Park. Did your dad or grandad ride or watch speedway at these venues in 1929? If so I want to hear from you. Rumour has it George Formby rode at the whitley Bay track. Turned out nice again eh! Heh!!

I would like to hear from any ex- Newcastle Riders, you are invited to the Jubilee Meeting at Brough Park. Yes Newcastle Ex-riders means Brian Craven, Brian Brett, Peter Kelly, Ivan, Ole, Anders, The Owen Brothers, Jesper Olsen, both Pedersens and Kenneth Bjerre as well as the great team men we have had like Mike Watkin, Russ Dent, Robbie Blackadder, David Bargh, Rod Hunter, Alan Emerson, Bobby Beaton et al. The invitation is out, so come on guys get talking to us. Brough park is going to have the Jubilee event that other tracks will envy. I also want to hear from any supporter who was at any of the 4 Tyneside tracks Brough Park, Gosforth, Whitley Bay and Greenside, from 1929 through to the outbreak of WW2 so if your dad or Grandad is old enough and they would like to be at Brough as guests of honour please get in touch.