keepturningleft Posted July 4, 2020 Report Share Posted July 4, 2020 The drone work on this is excellent, and personally I find the content to be both compelling and gruesome at the same time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davieb1 Posted July 4, 2020 Report Share Posted July 4, 2020 im trying to sharte this to facebook but it wont let me share due to others reporting it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davieb1 Posted July 4, 2020 Report Share Posted July 4, 2020 I suppose anything to do with cov bees is a little bad Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
25yearfan Posted July 4, 2020 Report Share Posted July 4, 2020 Sad that a stadium that used to stage well attended speedway and stock car meetings until under 4 years ago and would still be to this day is in such a state. Its a long shot but hopefully, somehow ownership can be reverted to a leisure company who can reopen the venue for speedway, stock cars, greyhounds and other events! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geoff100 Posted July 4, 2020 Report Share Posted July 4, 2020 The straights look narrow on this , was the greyhound track their in the 70s? Who were the people walking the stadium ? Vandals can anyone get in, sad to see . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve roberts Posted July 4, 2020 Report Share Posted July 4, 2020 3 hours ago, keepturningleft said: The drone work on this is excellent, and personally I find the content to be both compelling and gruesome at the same time. Tragic! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keepturningleft Posted July 4, 2020 Author Report Share Posted July 4, 2020 It reminds me in some way of the Titanic, a once great and glorious thing, now resting and rusting at the bottom of the speedway ocean! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobMcCaffery Posted July 4, 2020 Report Share Posted July 4, 2020 "Coventry Drone" ? That's no way to talk about Peter York! 2 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The White Knight Posted July 4, 2020 Report Share Posted July 4, 2020 How desperately sad and depressing. Such a shame. Camera work and drone operation are very good though. I hope the Speedway can be resurrected - if not - thanks for the memories. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve roberts Posted July 4, 2020 Report Share Posted July 4, 2020 I find it heart breaking that two glorious teams with lots of pedigree, Oxford and Coventry, are no longer operative despite stadiums remaining dormant but rapidly decaying. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrs Posted July 4, 2020 Report Share Posted July 4, 2020 So very sad and purely a result of greed, when a philanthropist was needed. That was my second home from 1955 to 1967 and to see all of the different parts of the stadium that I used to roam now left to die and rot away. I see Gemini's spot is still there. for me it was always the back straight. It's desecration. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noaksey Posted July 4, 2020 Report Share Posted July 4, 2020 11 hours ago, 25yearfan said: Sad that a stadium that used to stage well attended speedway and stock car meetings until under 4 years ago and would still be to this day is in such a state. Its a long shot but hopefully, somehow ownership can be reverted to a leisure company who can reopen the venue for speedway, stock cars, greyhounds and other events! Never say never but the chances of that ever happening must be less than 1% Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martinmauger Posted July 5, 2020 Report Share Posted July 5, 2020 (edited) Brilliant yet also very sad footage, some skillful dronemanship, I visited Coventry a few times so many good memories. Can anyone indicate where Charles Ochiltree's office was, this was considererd a real inner sanctum and few were permitted entry.... Edited July 5, 2020 by martinmauger spelling 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greyhoundp Posted July 5, 2020 Report Share Posted July 5, 2020 Very sad to see, Im afraid the Grandstand needs a fortune spending on it to bring it back to something fit for purpose, the back straight stand much less so, the other out buildings also need lots of money spending on them, i doubt very much if we will ever see Brandon return as a sporting venue unless someone wins the Euro Lottery, the Grandstand needs demolishing, probably some of the outbuildings also, which would leave the pits area and back straight stand remaining before any sport could take place. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ONTWOMINUTES Posted July 5, 2020 Report Share Posted July 5, 2020 9 hours ago, martinmauger said: Brilliant yet also very sad footage, some skillful dronemanship, I visited Coventry a few times so many good memories. Can anyone indicate where Charles Ochiltree's office was, this was considererd a real inner sanctum and few were permitted entry.... At 11.36 into the footage the boarded up window to the left of the blue door is about as near to Charles's office as you could get ( I know his wife always sat in there) to the best of my knowledge. I know the management office was always in that area. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobMcCaffery Posted July 5, 2020 Report Share Posted July 5, 2020 I visited Charles in his office once. Alongside being in a business meeting with Ivan Mauger it counts as one of my most memorable moments in the sport. I can't bring myself to watch the drone footage. I lost my track at the age of 16. It still stings. Keep fighting while you still have one brick to save. Once lost they don't come back. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martinmauger Posted July 5, 2020 Report Share Posted July 5, 2020 (edited) On 7/5/2020 at 11:44 AM, ONTWOMINUTES said: At 11.36 into the footage the boarded up window to the left of the blue door is about as near to Charles's office as you could get ( I know his wife always sat in there) to the best of my knowledge. I know the management office was always in that area. Thanks for the info, I'll have close look. For some reason I used to think the C.O.'s office was maybe at the far end of the main bar, recall there was a door with 'private' on it. I filmed the very last (slowest ever) lap of Craven Park as I walked round literally hours before the track was dug up for pitch widening, sad but I felt it had to be done as likely no-one else would. Should clarify that I held the camera as I walked, I wasn't filmed walking around the track, did the same at the Boulevard in 2008 or so whilst the dog track was still in situ, also what was left of Hedon (not much after 60-odd years) and a potential new site which didn't happen. The greyhounds left Craven Park in 2003 and moved across Hull to the Boulevard, hopes were high of a bigger & wider track at CP, similar to Workington, but it wasn't to be..... Edited July 7, 2020 by martinmauger added info, ocd upper case 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpeedwayTShirts Posted July 20, 2020 Report Share Posted July 20, 2020 It's changed a fair bit in 2 years 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve roberts Posted July 20, 2020 Report Share Posted July 20, 2020 3 hours ago, ChrisSimpson said: It's changed a fair bit in 2 years Depressing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cityrebel Posted July 20, 2020 Report Share Posted July 20, 2020 1 hour ago, steve roberts said: Depressing! Sad stuff. I'm glad i managed to do a couple of meetings at Brandon in their last season. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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