customhouseregular Posted December 23, 2014 Author 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. My word Penny, you did get about. I have to agree with your sentiments. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOBBATH Posted December 23, 2014 Report Share Posted December 23, 2014 Pennycross is the Champ-did you keep all the programmes? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
customhouseregular Posted December 23, 2014 Author Report Share Posted December 23, 2014 Pennycross is the Champ-did you keep all the programmes? Penny would need a shipping container for that lot!. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norbold Posted December 23, 2014 Report Share Posted December 23, 2014 I've kept my programmes from every meeting I've ever been to from 1960 onwards. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leicester Hunter Posted December 23, 2014 Report Share Posted December 23, 2014 I know a fellow Monarchs fan who can top my list, though I don't think he ever got to Crewe.. I did actually get to Earl Street, Crewe, but to see F1/F2 Stock Cars. What a wild old place it was. Railway sleepers everywhere, they even used them to make the terracing. The programme stated the track was 440 yards long, but it looked much bigger than that. Still a very sad time when the stadium finally closed at the end of 1993, though. I've also seen Stock Cars at Bradford (Odsal), both the shale and tarmac versions of Skegness and Brafield near Northampton, which I understand hosted speedway briefly in the early '50's. I managed to get a look round Ellesmere Port's Thornton Road track, but there wasn't a meeting going on at the time. Is it correct that the track is still there? I've kept my programmes from every meeting I've ever been to from 1960 onwards. Blimey. Got a warehouse to store 'em all in? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norbold Posted December 23, 2014 Report Share Posted December 23, 2014 Blimey. Got a warehouse to store 'em all in? I'm a historian, LH, I never throw anything away! I've also still got all my Speedway Worlds and Speedway Stars from 1960! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cityrebel Posted December 23, 2014 Report Share Posted December 23, 2014 I've kept my programmes from every meeting I've ever been to from 1960 onwards.you and me both. My first meeting was September 1968. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruno Posted December 23, 2014 Report Share Posted December 23, 2014 My wife's an hoarder,keeps everything whereas every now again I have a clear out and get rid of stuff.still got rosettes and badges from 70s and 80s at cradley but cleared out programmes from over the years.also just thrown away loads of speedway stars.sad but I never looked at them so thought what's the point of all that clutter.kept a few programmes like 72 world final I think it was when bernie came second.not sure if I'm right to do it cuz I love history and nostalgia but hate clutter! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
salty Posted December 23, 2014 Report Share Posted December 23, 2014 My first meeting was September 1968. Snap. Still got all my programmes, except a few from the 1976 season. Got loads of Speedway Stars, but have a cull every now and then. Usually only keep the close season ones. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chunky Posted December 24, 2014 Report Share Posted December 24, 2014 Do you know something we don't? I'd love to remove it from the list, but do you honestly see a future there? Who knows, there might be more by the start of the season... Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
racers and royals Posted December 24, 2014 Report Share Posted December 24, 2014 you and me both. My first meeting was September 1968. For me it was 17th june 1968 Reading v Nelson 1st meeting at Tilehurst. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
salty Posted December 24, 2014 Report Share Posted December 24, 2014 28th September 1968, Cradley v Newport Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cityrebel Posted December 24, 2014 Report Share Posted December 24, 2014 28th September 1968, Cradley v Newporti beat you by two days!. September 26th 1968 the laurels at Wimbledon, won by Barry Briggs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norbold Posted December 24, 2014 Report Share Posted December 24, 2014 (edited) Youngsters! 11 May 1960. New Cross v. Norwich. Ove Fundin scored an 18 point maximum, but, happily, New Cross won the Britannia Shield match. Edited December 24, 2014 by norbold Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sommelier Posted December 24, 2014 Report Share Posted December 24, 2014 28th September 1968, Cradley v Newport Hi, im always looking for any 1947 cradley programmes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
longlivefrankie Posted December 24, 2014 Report Share Posted December 24, 2014 Newport - Somerton park Newport - Hayley stadium Cradley Heath Exeter Oxford Wimbledon Hackney Bradford Belle vue - Hyde road Leicester - blackbird rd Reading - small mead White City Wembley Carmarthen Birmingham - Perry barr Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
van wolfswinkel Posted December 24, 2014 Report Share Posted December 24, 2014 Started going to New Cross in 63 the year they closed, then we went to Wimbledon, Ackney, West Am, then Wembley, White City, moved to Swindon in 68, Briggo etc., followed them since then. Should be a track in the capital. Drove past Smallmead, Reading last Monday, sad to see it in that state. Went to IOW the year before it closed. Have a 1963 Speedway Star bought from a car boot sale in Workington about 10 years ago. My bruv in Adelaide has a great collection of hundreds of progs going back to the 50s. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norbold Posted December 24, 2014 Report Share Posted December 24, 2014 I'd love to remove it from the list, but do you honestly see a future there? Who knows, there might be more by the start of the season... Steve Well, they've named their team for 2015......http://www.mildenhallfentigers.co.uk/index.php/news-centre/570-fans-favourite-completes-lineup Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stratton Posted December 24, 2014 Report Share Posted December 24, 2014 Youngsters! 11 May 1960. New Cross v. Norwich. Ove Fundin scored an 18 point maximum, but, happily, New Cross won the Britannia Shield match. Just the man Norbold,have been getting a collection together of Arthur Forrest mostly Halifax at the moment i know he reached 5 World finals.And in his first year in div 3 he scored 19 maximums four paid how good was he Norbold.? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norbold Posted December 24, 2014 Report Share Posted December 24, 2014 (edited) Well, I can't tell you from personal experience, sidney, as he retired in 1959 and I started going to speedway in 1960. However, from his record he was certainly very good indeed. Between 1955 and 1965, only four riders managed to break the "big 5" dominance of the World Championship rostrum places and Arthur was one of them, so that must say something.Back in 2010, Tony McDonald asked me to write an article on the Top 20 British riders of the 1950s. I placed him 6th. Edited December 25, 2014 by norbold Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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