spin king Posted December 21, 2014 Report Share Posted December 21, 2014 Belle Vue (Hyde Road) Leicester (Blackbird Road) Halifax Hull (The Boulivard) Cradley Heath Hackney. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Third Man Posted December 21, 2014 Report Share Posted December 21, 2014 (edited) the following i can remember Belle Vue Birmingham Perry Bar Scunthorpe Wembley Belle Vue Halifax Cradley Leicester Doncaster Long Eaton Hackney White City Hull Hull Milton Keynes Bradford Newport a very sad list Edited December 24, 2014 by The Third Man Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevehone Posted December 21, 2014 Report Share Posted December 21, 2014 Wimbledon * Canterbury * Hackney * Exeter * Berwick (Berrington Lough) * Belle Vue (Hyde Road) * Milton Keynes (Groveway) * Milton Keynes (Elfield Park) * Reading * Long Eaton * Boston * Sittingbourne * Oxford * Halifax Cradley White City Wembley Bradford IOW Newport Crayford all those with a * I've ridden at too .. list might have more, just can't think of any Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chunky Posted December 22, 2014 Report Share Posted December 22, 2014 Belle Vue (Hyde Rd) Berwick (Berrington Lough) Bradford Canterbury Cradley Heath Crayford Exeter Glasgow (Shawfield) Hackney Halifax Hull (Boulevard) Leicester (Blackbird Rd) Long Eaton Mildenhall Milton Keynes (Elfield Park) Milton Keynes (Groveway) Oxford Reading (Smallmead) Wembley West Ham White City (London) Wimbledon What I will say is this; this is a bloody depressing thread... Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norbold Posted December 22, 2014 Report Share Posted December 22, 2014 (edited) I didn't venture much out of London but just looking at the tracks I went to there and are not around any more is enough to make you cry!!! New Cross Harringay Hackney West Ham Wimbledon White City Wembley Romford and (just outside)High Beech Rayleigh. I did get to some others like Cradley Heath and Hyde Road, but just looking at London tracks is bad enough! Edited December 22, 2014 by norbold 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sotonian Posted December 22, 2014 Report Share Posted December 22, 2014 I didn't venture much out of London but just looking at the tracks I went to there and are not around any more is enough to make you cry!!! New Cross Harringay Hackney West Ham Wimbledon White City Wembley Romford and (just outside) High Beech Rayleigh. I did get to some others like Cradley Heath and Hyde Road, but just looking at London tracks is bad enough! Crikey! How old are you?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
customhouseregular Posted December 22, 2014 Author Report Share Posted December 22, 2014 Sad see Vic for Weymouth and Hackney and for Hackney he was improving everyone gives Vic a great word a nice man sadly missed. If you watched those clubs in London three days a week god was hard to travel much away anyway City .Wouldnt it be great to have three great clubs in the capital Wimbledon/Hackney i loved going to especially don't be late Friday at eight i loved Hackney i see Martin Ashby win the superama there. It would be quite nice to have 1 great club in the capital...or just one club. How can we call speedway a National sport when 8,000,000 people don't have a club to support. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grachan Posted December 22, 2014 Report Share Posted December 22, 2014 Crikey! How old are you?! According to the Defunct Speedway website, High Beech was still staging meetings right up to 1967. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norbold Posted December 22, 2014 Report Share Posted December 22, 2014 (edited) The meeting I went to at High Beech was actually in 1968, celebrating the 40th anniversary of the first meeting. In fact the last meeting at High Beech was later than the last meetings at New Cross and Harringay. P.S. And Southampton! Edited December 22, 2014 by norbold Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sotonian Posted December 22, 2014 Report Share Posted December 22, 2014 The meeting I went to at High Beech was actually in 1968, celebrating the 40th anniversary of the first meeting. In fact the last meeting at High Beech was later than the last meetings at New Cross and Harringay. P.S. And Southampton! That wasn't a meeting as such, more a celebration so doesn't count! BTW, I've seen that pic of you at HB in 1960 and there wasn't a viable track in place then either. When was the last actual race meeting staged there? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norbold Posted December 22, 2014 Report Share Posted December 22, 2014 There was a viable track in place in 1968. Jimmy Gooch had leased it in 1967 to run a training school and resuscitated the track. It was this track that was used at the 40th anniversary meeting in 1968. Many former riders gave demonstrations on the track including Roger Frogley, Wal Phillips, Jack Barnett and Syd Edmonds. So I did see speedway at the track, albeit not a match or individual trophy. The last time High Beech was used for matches was 1939. It was used as a training track in1947, 49 and 50 and then that was it till 1967. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
customhouseregular Posted December 22, 2014 Author Report Share Posted December 22, 2014 Belle Vue (Hyde Rd) Berwick (Berrington Lough) Bradford Canterbury Cradley Heath Crayford Exeter Glasgow (Shawfield) Hackney Halifax Hull (Boulevard) Leicester (Blackbird Rd) Long Eaton Mildenhall Milton Keynes (Elfield Park) Milton Keynes (Groveway) Oxford Reading (Smallmead) Wembley West Ham White City (London) Wimbledon What I will say is this; this is a bloody depressing thread... Steve wish I had not started it now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cityrebel Posted December 22, 2014 Report Share Posted December 22, 2014 wish I had not started it now.why, it's a good topic. When I think back to sitting on those hard wooden seats in the main stand at custom house, it brings a tear to my eye! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norbold Posted December 22, 2014 Report Share Posted December 22, 2014 Mildenhall Do you know something we don't? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOBBATH Posted December 22, 2014 Report Share Posted December 22, 2014 I reckon Norbold should officially be allowed to count High beech-so there!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
customhouseregular Posted December 22, 2014 Author Report Share Posted December 22, 2014 why, it's a good topic. When I think back to sitting on those hard wooden seats in the main stand at custom house, it brings a tear to my eye! We must have been sitting close to each other. I was always in the main stand just above the starting gate, Happy days my friend, happy days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norbold Posted December 22, 2014 Report Share Posted December 22, 2014 (edited) I reckon Norbold should officially be allowed to count High beech-so there!! Thank you, BOBBATH. You're a gentleman and I agree with you! We must have been sitting close to each other. I was always in the main stand just above the starting gate, Happy days my friend, happy days. Me too. Edited December 22, 2014 by norbold Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone Posted December 23, 2014 Report Share Posted December 23, 2014 (edited) My first foray was Old Meadowbank in 1962, and since then I reckon I've seen organised meetings at 55 UK tracks which are no longer operating :- Barrow (Park Road) Belle Vue (Hyde Road) Berwick (Berrington Lough) Birmingham (Bordesley Green) Birmingham (Perry Barr Greyhound) Boston (New Hammond Beck Road) Bradford (Odsal) Bristol (Eastville) Buxton (Stadium) Canterbury (Kingsmead) Carmarthen Coatbridge (Cliftonhill) Cowdenbeath (Central Park) Cradley Heath (Dudley Wood) Crayford (Stadium Road) Crewe (Earle Street) Edinburgh (Old Meadowbank) Edinburgh (Powderhall) Ellesmere Port (Thornton Road) Exeter (County Ground) Felton Glasgow (Blantyre Sports Stadium) Glasgow (Craighead Park, Blantyre) Glasgow (Hampden Park) Glasgow (Shawfield Stadium) Glasgow (White City) Hackney Wick (Waterden Road) Halifax (The Shay) Hull (Craven Park) Hull (The Boulevard) Isle of Wight (Smallbrook) Leicester (Blackbird Road) Linlithgow (Heathersfield) London (White City) Long Eaton (Station Road) Middlesbrough (Cleveland Park) Milton Keynes (Elfield Park) Milton Keynes (Groveway) Newport (Queensway Meadows) Newport (Somerton Park) Newtongrange (Victoria Park) Oxford (Cowley) Paisley (Love Street) Rayleigh (Weir Stadium) Reading (Smallmead) Reading (Tilehurst) Rochdale (The Athletic Grounds, Milnrow Road) Scunthorpe (Ashby Ville) Scunthorpe (Quibell Park) St Austell (Claycountry Moto Parc) Sunderland (East Boldon) Wembley (Empire Stadium) West Ham (Custom House) Weymouth (pre 1985, Wessex Stadium, Radipole Lane) Wimbledon (Plough Lane) I've watched racing at the Gyle, Edinburgh, but that was practice/training only. I know a fellow Monarchs fan who can top my list as he has also been to Barrow (Holker St), Castleford, Motherwell (the one Speedway mtg held in 1972), and the last Weymouth Track, though I don't think he ever got to Crewe.. Edited December 23, 2014 by cyclone Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
customhouseregular Posted December 23, 2014 Author Report Share Posted December 23, 2014 I reckon Norbold should officially be allowed to count High beech-so there!! If being at High Beech in Feb 1968 for the 40th. Anniversary counts as seeing speedway at a defunct track, I can add this to my list. My first foray was Old Meadowbank in 1962, and since then I reckon I've seen organised meetings at 55 UK tracks which are no longer operating :- Barrow (Park Road) Belle Vue (Hyde Road) Berwick (Berrington Lough) Birmingham (Bordesley Green) Birmingham (Perry Barr Greyhound) Boston (New Hammond Beck Road) Bradford (Odsal) Bristol (Eastville) Buxton (Stadium) Canterbury (Kingsmead) Carmarthen Coatbridge (Cliftonhill) Cowdenbeath (Central Park) Cradley Heath (Dudley Wood) Crayford (Stadium Road) Crewe (Earle Street) Edinburgh (Old Meadowbank) Edinburgh (Powderhall) Ellesmere Port (Thornton Road) Exeter (County Ground) Felton Glasgow (Blantyre Sports Stadium) Glasgow (Craighead Park, Blantyre) Glasgow (Hampden Park) Glasgow (Shawfield Stadium) Glasgow (White City) Hackney Wick (Waterden Road) Halifax (The Shay) Hull (Craven Park) Hull (The Boulevard) Isle of Wight (Smallbrook) Leicester (Blackbird Road) Linlithgow (Heathersfield) London (White City) Long Eaton (Station Road) Middlesbrough (Cleveland Park) Milton Keynes (Elfield Park) Milton Keynes (Groveway) Newport (Queensway Meadows) Newport (Somerton Park) Newtongrange (Victoria Park) Oxford (Cowley) Paisley (Love Street) Rayleigh (Weir Stadium) Reading (Smallmead) Reading (Tilehurst) Rochdale (The Athletic Grounds, Milnrow Road) Scunthorpe (Ashby Ville) Scunthorpe (Quibell Park) St Austell (Claycountry Moto Parc) Sunderland (East Boldon) Wembley (Empire Stadium) West Ham (Custom House) Weymouth (pre 1985, Wessex Stadium, Radipole Lane) Wimbledon (Plough Lane) I've watched racing at the Gyle, Edinburgh, but that was practice/training only. I know a fellow Monarchs fan who can top my list as he has also been to Barrow (Holker St), Castleford, Motherwell (the one Speedway mtg held in 1972), and the last Weymouth Track, though I don't think he ever got to Crewe.. Makes my list look pitiful...call yourself a speedway fan CHR. I'm strictly second division compared to you!. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Penny Cross Posted December 23, 2014 Report Share Posted December 23, 2014 Aldershot Barrow-Holker Street and Park Road Belle Vue Hyde Road Berwick Berrington Lough Birmingham Perry Barr 1 Birmingham Wheels Boston Bradford Bristol Knowle Bristol Eastville Buxton (Stock car stadium) Canterbury Carmarthen Coatbridge Cradley Heath Crayford Crewe Edinburgh Meadowbank Edinburgh Powderhall Ellesmere Port Exeter Glasgow....White City,Craighead Park, Blantyre, Hampden Park,Shawfield Great Yarmouth Hackney Halifax Harringay High Beach (1968 reunion only) Hull Boulevard Hull Craven Park Isle of Wight Iwade (more recently Sittingbourne) Leicester Blackbird Road Linlithgow London White City Long Eaton Middlesborough Milton Keynes Groveway Milton Keyenes Elfield Park Neath New Cross Newport Somerton Park Newport Hayley Stadium Norwich Firs Norwich Hevingham (one and only meeting!) Oxford Paisley Plymouth Pennycross Rayleigh Reading Tilehurst Reading Smallmead Ringwood (not for Southern League, but Poole Juniors) Romford Scunthorpe Quibbell Park Scunthorpe Ashby Ville Skegness Southampton St Austell Cornish Stadium, Par St Austell Clay Country Moto Park (Also counts as Trelawny) Stoke Sun Street Sunderland Wembley West Ham Weymouth BOTH Wessex Stadium 1 &2 Wimbledon Interesting looking the info up, but very sad at the same time. Some fabulous venues lost on the way, but also some equally fabulous memories. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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