EnglishRoundabout Posted March 17, 2015 Report Share Posted March 17, 2015 Exciting kiosks! - you get easily excited in Swindon!!! (Whatever happened to Burnt Kiosk our Swedish number one?) I was only 12! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyk Posted March 17, 2015 Report Share Posted March 17, 2015 As a member of the Reading Speedway supporters club I helped build Smallmead Stadium. I used to turn up at the weekends with others to do whatever jobs needed doing. My first job was to remove bits of glass and metal from the newly formed terracing, the remains of the tip that it was. Went on to help lay the cables for the pits, creosote the front wall, unload the concrete fencing from the lorry, painted the safety fence springs and posts etc.. Even helped Eddie Lack, the track man, with track prep at times. Happy days, only too willing to help out, thought at the time it would be there for ever. How wrong was I. Still sorely missed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
van wolfswinkel Posted March 25, 2015 Report Share Posted March 25, 2015 I actually attended the first ever meeting (and the last) at Smallmead as a school boy. It was in my eyes at the time, a brilliant new track, just down the road from swindon where I lived at the time and had exciting kiosks dotted around the stadium selling such things as bottles of coke and such like! The track seemed to be an excellent shape, the crowds in the early days were very good too. The covered back straight and viewing area for the pits made it a stadium I always looked forward to visiting. I didn't go to speedway in the 80's or the 90's but retuned in 2006, where I visited Smallmead again for the first time in 20 odd years. I got the shock of my life! It was a run down ramshackle of a place and within a year or so had been flattened. Very sad. But holds some fond memories for me. You Swindon fans are obsessed with buildings such as bog blocks(on back straights)huts and kiosks. Get a job associated with garden centres and portakabins. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YerRopes Posted March 25, 2015 Report Share Posted March 25, 2015 You Swindon fans are obsessed with buildings such as bog blocks(on back straights)huts and kiosks. Get a job associated with garden centres and portakabins. Is that what you moved onto Keef ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
van wolfswinkel Posted March 25, 2015 Report Share Posted March 25, 2015 Is that what you moved onto Keef ? Yes I sell portaloos now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The White Knight Posted March 25, 2015 Report Share Posted March 25, 2015 Yes I sell portaloos now Isn't that an 'ABBA' song? :unsure: 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
van wolfswinkel Posted March 25, 2015 Report Share Posted March 25, 2015 Isn't that an 'ABBA' song? :unsure: Don't talk crap son 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The White Knight Posted March 25, 2015 Report Share Posted March 25, 2015 Don't talk crap son Ohhhh!! Very good that. :rofl: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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