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Yes Iris123 it is the guy you got the autograph from all those years ago-the only time I ever had a chat with him was in 1967 in the Station Hotel pub-think I've got the name right-next to Long Eaton stadium. The meeting v. Sheffield was delayed due to a thunderstorm, started about 8:30.Our friend had been injured and was in there having a beer with some buddies,always struck me as a real gentleman who was a great team man and had a deserved illustrious career.RIP .

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Bobbin' along, I agree and did not start this thread facetiously-I seriously wondered whether discussing it could have added some background to the sixties e.g. one person helping out another because of their shared experience, one rider mentoring another etc etc. I was thinking particularly of one older rider who helped develop a future World Finalist as a young person and that got me thinking. By the way most people have figured out the un named rider from Sheffield I suspect, he always looked glum in team photos -never smiled poor guy and I wondered if he had been picked on for his orientation

Sorry Bob

 

I realised afterwards that looked like I was attacking your post! I was referring to those people who choose to make a serious, well meant topic into a shopfront for smutty innuendo.

 

As for the Sheffield rider - I have no idea who he was, and coming to the sport in 1983 am not likely to know him. But my sentiments stand the same.

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Sorry Bob

 

I realised afterwards that looked like I was attacking your post!  I was referring to those people who choose to make a serious, well meant topic into a shopfront for smutty innuendo.

 

As for the Sheffield rider - I have no idea who he was, and coming to the sport in 1983 am not likely to know him. But my sentiments stand the same.

 

 

Isn't this around the time the rider in question sadly died?

 

http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/oldtimespeedway

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Isn't this around the time the rider in question sadly died?

 

http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/oldtimespeedway

No idea. My first match was 19 September 1983. I remember being told about the sad death of Martin Hewlett the year before, but after that I seem to remember the first death I heard of was Lief Whallman (Sp?) and that was a track accident.

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No idea.  My first match was 19 September 1983.  I remember being told about the sad death of Martin Hewlett the year before, but after that I seem to remember the first death I heard of was Lief Whallman (Sp?) and that was a track accident.

 

 

Martin Hewlett died from a stroke aged 20 years. Lief Whallman in a track accident. The sad matter in this case is that the rider apparently took his own life seven years after his retirement.

 

 

http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/oldtimespeedway

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Does some sort of code of secrecy apply to whoever it is you're all talking about, or are the rest of us allowed to know who it is?

 

 

 

No code of secrecy. Just being careful in my investigation. Imagine the trauma if the wrong person was named.

 

 

 

http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/oldtimespeedway

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No code of secrecy. Just being careful in my investigation. Imagine the trauma if the wrong person was named.

http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/oldtimespeedway

 

Does it really matter, the man has been dead for quite sometime now, and I don'tthink that does any good to bring it back up.

Let the man rst in peace.

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Oh for heaven's sake everyone. This is like one of those Christmas quizzes. Bob Paulson is my guess.

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1981 or 2 i think

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Oh for heaven's sake everyone. This is like one of those Christmas quizzes. Bob Paulson is my guess.

 

 

That was my elimination. I went through the Sheffield biographies to find a rider who died seven years after retirement. It fitted Bob Paulson. Does anyone have a transcript of his inquest? RIP.

 

 

 

http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/oldtimespeedway

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Okay everybody happy that the mans name is out, at the time I did not know when he retired in either 74/75 I wuold only be 10 or 11, it was later that I was told he was gay, after his death.

I vaguely remember that the inquest said that he had suffered for quite a few years with depression, no mention that he was having problems with his sexuallity.

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Maybe circumstances were part of the depression - bear in mind it would still have been a huge stigma back then to a lot of people of Bob's (and his parents') generation.

 

I don't really want to prolong the debate any further so I'll keep it to that!

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Martin Hewlett died from a stroke aged 20 years. Lief Whallman in a track accident. The sad matter in this case is that the rider apparently took his own life seven years after his retirement.

http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/oldtimespeedway

Martin died from a brain haemorrhage - after one of the best meeting's he'd had. I was referring to Lief Whallman's racing incident.

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:D well well you have done it again,i have been away working and when i get back onto this forum your getting your kicks upsetting the regulars :blink:

but hey i like your style mate,i dont think when i rode there were to many sam javalin boys.but bob keep up the good work after a long period of time you may win a few more mates like myself.kiss kiss B)

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The main point of this thread may have been that if anyone does suffer from depression these days, get help,medication has greatly advanced and depression is often due to a chemical imbalance-lack of serotonin-which can be fixed.No need to suffer-after all if you had a pain in your knee you would get it fixed so same goes for a pain in the head. No shame to that .Who knows, if the same meds had been available twenty years ago Bob might still be with us today.

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