Hackney Speedway

[Dave Stummings]

For those of us who like to reminisce, like me, there’s a real nostalgia moments from Hackney 1976 on facebook. www.facebook/hackneyspeedway. Hackney Speedway is reliving week by week, day by day and in some cases hour by hour meetings from the 1976 season. It would appear that dates are identical to this year and there are updates from all the Hawks 1976 meetings and I’m just loving it! It’s just like speedway updates from 1976, how cool is that! Really is worth looking at, even if you’re not a supporter of the Hawks! If your team was in the 1976 Gulf Oil British League [First Division] it’s worth joining facebook if you’re not already! The teams in the 1976 GOBL are:-

Belle Vue

Birmingham

Cradley

Exeter

Halifax

Hull

Ipswich

Kings Lynn

Leicester

Newport

Poole

Reading

Sheffield

Swindon

White City

Wimbledon

Wolverhampton

 

[Robbie B]

Even though I'm a Dons supporter this is a great idea.

 

Can't wait till 1st November comes round

 

I've joined waiting for the friend request to be accepted.

 

I do have a Wimbledon speedway website that's dedicated to Wimbledon's 1976 season www.wimbledonspeedway1976.co.uk

Edited March 26, 2010 by Robbie B

[Dave Stummings]

QUOTE (Robbie B @ Mar 26 2010, 08:11 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I've joined waiting for the friend request to be accepted.

 

Message from Hackney, he's deleted your request, purely by accident can you resend friend request, thanks

[Robbie B]

Message from Hackney, he's deleted your request, purely by accident can you resend friend request, thanks

 

All done. Are they going to print the heat details? Has I do have my Speedway Stars at hand as Im still working on my website.

 

By the way Cradley was Cradley United in 1976

Edited March 26, 2010 by Robbie B

[chunky]

Hey Robbie, you need to get on FB and add me as a friend! I tried to look for you, but there are too many of you... You can always refine mine by entering "Saint Louis" as my location.

 

Steve

[WembleyLion]

Ah 1976 at the Wick - great memories none more so than on Good Friday (16 April) - Hackney 23 v 55 Ipswich. Strangely enough they had also met at Foxhall Heath that afternoon and the Witches had only won by 4 points! The Witches often did very well at Hackney and in part this was testament to the great race track at Waterden Road.

[tomcat]

Ah 1976 at the Wick - great memories none more so than on Good Friday (16 April) - Hackney 23 v 55 Ipswich. Strangely enough they had also met at Foxhall Heath that afternoon and the Witches had only won by 4 points! The Witches often did very well at Hackney and in part this was testament to the great race track at Waterden Road.

 

Wondeful times indeed WL... As you say, the Witches always seemed to go

very very well around Waterden Road, almost like a second home track for

some of the Witches riders. I remember in particular, that John Louis and

Billy Sanders used to love the place, always scoring reasonably heavy points

there. No wonder Len Silver doesn't get along with JL these days, he's probably

still smarting at all those defeats..... The Spring Gold Cup... those were the days.

[cityrebel]

Ah 1976 at the Wick - great memories none more so than on Good Friday (16 April) - Hackney 23 v 55 Ipswich. Strangely enough they had also met at Foxhall Heath that afternoon and the Witches had only won by 4 points! The Witches often did very well at Hackney and in part this was testament to the great race track at Waterden Road.

hi eddie, the wick was a great race track up until 1983 when uncle len ran it. 1n 1984 when crayford moved in and they changed the track it was never the same for me. and as for the london lions era the track was even worse.

[iris123]

hi eddie, the wick was a great race track up until 1983 when uncle len ran it. 1n 1984 when crayford moved in and they changed the track it was never the same for me. and as for the london lions era the track was even worse.

I thought there was some great races/meetings post Len Silver.The Kestrels team had some fantastic riders.Even as a South London Dons fan,i regularly travelled up to Hackney in this period.For a number of seasons i hardly missed a meeting i think