BOBBATH

Did Alf Elliott ever ride for Wigan??

To me Long Eaton will ever remain "The Archers" -if Station Road returns I will personally come over from Canada to attend-and have some fish and chips from that great chippy. Also liked going into a restaurant called "Banner's Farm Fare" for egg, sausages and chips-there was one in Beeston also-Is Banner's Farm Fare still going???. Good old Vic White still lives in Long Eaton-great guy!! I miss English sausages but now a chain of pubs in Toronto sells Palethorpe's-the bangers, beans and mash are superb-if you are reading this Tigertom-its the Firkin chain.

Sorry,mervjankefanclub-haven't seen a UK meeting in years-sometimes go on youtube-so let me get this straight-its now Red,Blue, Green,Yellow-why the hell did they get rid of the y/b-I liked r,b,w y/b- can't they stop tinkering with the old ways when did these changes occur??Its ridiculous. P.S. Don't knock the sauce-as Oscar Wilde said"work is the curse of the drinling classes" Hic!!

Why did yellow/black helmet cover change to green??Anyone know??

Must be thinking of your big sister!!!

I didn't ralise Goog Allan had died-he was quite young wasn't he-anyone know??

Can't believe no -one mentioned Rim Malskaitis on this old (and long ) thread(he was a very tall rider also)!!!

Hi keef -think you must bow to me as the world's greatest anorak-I bought you a pint of Watney's Red Barrel(remember that??) that June in 1968

Hi asturmer, next time you see Colin tell him I well recall him riding for both Edinburgh and Hackney at Newport-always could be relied on to put on a good show on what was not the best track for visiting riders-buy him a coffee from me and give him my regards from Toronto.

Yes I can well believe Newport were top of the table and they would have stayed there if they had got a replacement for Dick Bradley-they really had four heat leaders until that time. BTW they lost those two Scottish matches-I recall the Supporters Club running coaches up there to see them on successive nights.

Just came across this-thanx Merlin(if you are still on the forum)-for your description af a great event-and also the road trips before motorways.

I seem to recall Tom riding at Long Eaton in mid sixties but can't recall who for.

Is Tom Leadbitter still alive??

Amazingly I was there at the 1968 Swindon v Exeter meeting that Keef mentioned(hi Keef aren't you the guy who owes me a beer)-strangely enough I recall Tony George who I think was Exeter reserve at that meeting-I thought he would become a superstar but it never worked out. I also recall Jimmy Squibb for Exeter who at that time would have been 47 what a rider-will have to dig out my program out.Wait a minute have just done so-this was 15th June 68 and neither Briggs nor Ashby were riding.It was 50-28 for Robins-have you got wrong year Keef?Top scorer for Swindon was Kilby with 12 pts. max-top scorer for Exeter was Street with 9. In program notes it mentioned that both Briggs and Ashby were absent-perhaps you are thinking of 1969??Sorry to be a nerd -or as you Brits would say"anorak"- about this!!!!!!!!

R.I.P Eric-another great one passes over. Thanks to you and Eric we have the wonderful series covering his memories of growing up in Wales and of his illustrious career which I have saved and refer back too frequently. All the best Ross and God Bless Eric.

Tony is the Colindale newspaper library still open in England-or archives anywhere??

Yes I recall the debate about Louis Lawson's real name-it seemed like LL was an alias-you wouldn't happen to know would you Norbold???

Great to hear about Jim Yacoby-another rider of the same era and I would say similar in talent was Bill Powell-anyone know how Bill is??

Great posts re Tommy-I didn't realise he kept going until 1971 nor aware of the Genz/Roper trade-another name mentioned in these posts was Jim Yacobi-what is Jim up to now?? I recall him with B.V. in the old NL days and in first years of BL.

Anyone know how Tommy is-does he still run his chain of hairdressing salons. In my view he was a stalwart part of the 1966 Halifax double winning team. I recall him riding for Sheffield in the PL-but perhaps also BV in late fifties-not sure about that?Always a tough opponent-perhaps Tommy retired too soon?

I recall getting on the bus in Stratford and going up the street of a thousand smells(Carpenters Rd.)-what was there anyway was it a slaughterhouse!!I recall Hackney hammering Wimbledon 57-21 in 1967, great meeting if you didn't like Wimbledon, also saw a Czech touring team there in the same year.Last visited there in 1972 and think I saw the only ever appearance of an American Timmy Joe Shepherd?? or was that 1975-might have been the latter.

For some reason the stuff about Alan appears as if I am the topic(if I was the topic-it should be entitled"You Too Can End Up Like Me-If You're Not Careful!!!)".Anyway thought Alan deserved a thread titled properly in his name.To Capt. Kidd-you mentioned that your dad is very interested in talking about his time in Speedway. He should know that a lot of people-like me-are very interested in hearing his views.Do you think he would get a kick if we asked questions of him via this message board , that he could answer via you-it would make him realise with what affection he is remembered. For example-I would like to know who he considered his most feared opponent-Ivor Brown at CH perhaps??

Bee, scrolling thru' message boards that were posted before I joined forumland(gotta get a life). Anyway am really enjoying your history of the Bees-thought you'd like to know.

Isn't this the ultimate answer for three generations riding!!(no grandmothers involved)!!

How old would Goog have been in the early 60's ,ditto George White??