suchislife Posted July 31, 2006 Report Share Posted July 31, 2006 (edited) deleted Edited June 27, 2007 by suchislife Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miro Posted July 31, 2006 Report Share Posted July 31, 2006 The film was The Long Good Friday, and as far as I know the filming was done at the Harringay stadium in London in 1979, the year it closed, now a supermarket. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parsloes 1928 nearly Posted August 16, 2006 Report Share Posted August 16, 2006 The film was The Long Good Friday, and as far as I know the filming was done at the Harringay stadium in London in 1979, the year it closed, now a supermarket. Don't think Harringay closed as early as 1979 did it..?? I thought that perhaps the venue shown in the film was Walthamstow..??!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norbold Posted August 16, 2006 Report Share Posted August 16, 2006 The final greyhound meeting at Harringay was held on 25 September 1987 after which the stadium closed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parsloes 1928 nearly Posted August 16, 2006 Report Share Posted August 16, 2006 The final greyhound meeting at Harringay was held on 25 September 1987 after which the stadium closed. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Yes - I knew it was quite a lot later than '79 as I moved to the area in 1982 and it was open then. And of course the Greyhound Derby transferred there (for just one year as it turned out..) after White City's demise. Sobering to think that White City & Harringay were disposed of in such rapid succession. Who's to say this sort of culling by the GRA isn't about to happen again. Catford gone; Plough Lane teetering on the brink..: what's the future for Oxford & Belle Vue, I wonder..??!! And norbold..: was it Harringay then in 'TLGF'..?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norbold Posted August 16, 2006 Report Share Posted August 16, 2006 Sorry, I don't know the answer to that one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicks Notes Posted August 16, 2006 Report Share Posted August 16, 2006 Yes, it certainly was Haringay. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teessidepaul Posted August 16, 2006 Report Share Posted August 16, 2006 deffo Haringay. brisca f1 stock cars raced there in 1979 as part of the silver jubilee*{bsp} as it was the closeset track to the first ever stock car meeting held at new cross,,iirc as and when it closed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Chuckle Posted August 22, 2006 Report Share Posted August 22, 2006 Me and my mucker Frank raced over to Green Lanes after the Hackney meeting the night Harringay closed and saw the last few dog races. I have still got the losing Tote tickets from the last race, the Tote equipment was the old trusty dead man's handle that moved from one trap number to another with a tortured clanking sound. None of this soulless computerised rubbish that we have now. It was definitely Harringay in the Long Good Friday, I would recognise that unique Tote board anywhere. Last year when I was shopping in Sainsbury's (I should be shot for treason) I asked what had happened to the mementoes that were on display on the wall, commemorating the reunion day that the Friends of Speedway staged around 5, 6 or maybe more years ago, the manager's answer was, "They must have got lost during renovations." Obviously he didn't give a damn where they were, extremely sad that the tribute to Harringay Speedway has probably ended up in the dustbin. To this day I swear that I saw Lord Lucan on the fire escape stairs under the main stand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bulldog 77 / 78 Posted August 25, 2006 Report Share Posted August 25, 2006 On the subject of film sets, does anyone know the name of the stadium used for the speedway scene in the film `Honest` starring the`all saints` back in 2000? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
king jeff Posted August 25, 2006 Report Share Posted August 25, 2006 I've got a vague recollection of reading something in the Speed Star some years ago of a film being shot at the old Catford dog track,I think that Briggo may have been involved in it,but I certainly wouldn't swear to it.Whether this is the film you mention I don't know for sure, perhaps someone else can throw more light on this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shazzybird Posted August 25, 2006 Report Share Posted August 25, 2006 Sorry, I don't know the answer to that one. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Why not!!!!???? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Louise1445 Posted August 25, 2006 Report Share Posted August 25, 2006 On the subject of film sets, does anyone know the name of the stadium used for the speedway scene in the film `Honest` starring the`all saints` back in 2000? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> It was filmed at Catford apparently and according to Speedwayplus they rode on the dog track here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parsloes 1928 nearly Posted August 27, 2006 Report Share Posted August 27, 2006 It was filmed at Catford apparently and according to Speedwayplus they rode on the dog track Isn't this one of the MOST extraordinary things..?? Why did they go to such elaborate efforts to stage Speedway in a venue that sadly never really staged it when they could so much more easily have used a track in an existing stadium??! But wouldn't it have been great (and unique) to have been at dear old Catford dog track as crowd extra when they filmed it..?? I wonder, is there anyone out there in BSF land who was..???!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norbold Posted August 27, 2006 Report Share Posted August 27, 2006 They said it was because Catford had the right "period" atmosphere. i.e it was run down... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grachan Posted August 31, 2006 Report Share Posted August 31, 2006 Did they have safety fences on the inside in the sixties then? http://www.speedwayplus.co.uk/images/honest3.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shrimpfan Posted September 5, 2006 Report Share Posted September 5, 2006 It was used because of the floodlights at Catford were of 1960's style. A crap film only saved by 2 mins of Speedway! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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