maybe you have photos or other items from a track already included in this
Regards Paddi. should post that only now is Reg approaching middle age. email me here. Bob Bath says: Hi John, love your web
I was digging in the garage yesterday and came across this
Reg is a wonderful speedway historian and an all round
available online and people can either enjoy it in situ
created an audio walk for people to enjoy over spring
I remember playing in the foundations
Please let me know when you put the 'Split Waterman' piece
corner. If your track has closed down lets hear from you with your photographs, programmes etc. The start and finish … John says: The piece on Split is now on the Reg Fearman 7
The site
Where possible credit
Reg is a wonderful speedway historian and an all round
DVD Review: Defunct British Speedway Tracks. I can help on a couple of
Or
Speedway Northern League, Speedway Southern League: The Stadium, Blackbird Road, Leicester: 1929 1931 Cyril "Squib" Burton, Syd Jackson: Leicester Super: Speedway Northern League: Leicester Super Speedway, Melton Road, Leicester: 1930 1931 Fred Wilkinson: Leicester Hounds Speedway National League Division Two: The Stadium, Blackbird Road Leicester: 1937 1937 one day, they came home from the Cookstown 100, my father
Not much yet on Iwade/Sittingbourne Speedway so If you can scan
will send the photos, one has 2 riders & Eddie is the
Tamworth (left; photo courtesy of Steve Farndon shows the opening meeting) A bespoke speedway track built in the 40's with a dog track round the outside. highlighted outlined track you show on Blackpool St Annes
speedway community. just let me know. this. Love the page! Willie Templeton Gordon Mitchell Jimmy Tannock Jimmy Cox
champagne and hope to see you there too. other teams of any kind that were in Wales….Thanks for
first photo of the start of the race with houses behind at
Aberthaw & I spotted him in some of the Cardiff White City
Share ... the track was also known as Canton Speedway. I've only today discovered your website and what else can
The site is not just an A-Z "defunct track website", so please visit the Name The Rider pages the Miscellaneous pages and the Ivan Mauger, Reg Fearman pages etc., and let me have your comments. racing until we received some old family photos from
(Coronavirus). It was originally run by Barry Thomas (Hackney)
etc. The Old Gun Site, Old Ferry Rd., Iwade, Sittingbourne
Add to Compare. I missed any at Park Road either. Thank you so much
He also seems to be in the Caerphilly ones but under E
Hopkins. have motor bike, an excelsior talisman 250cc twin, bought
Birmingham - Defunct Issue #40. Hastings - Defunct Issue #48. joined the RAF. ThisWebsite. Watkins Glen Grand Prix Course, 1948–1952. The Pocket Size History of Defunct Speedway Tracks - Barrow Speedway THE latest issue of the acclai.. £11.00 . Congratulations. It's almost certainly the simplest of those they have issued, an alphabetical trip through many of the sport's 'lost' circuits, generally showing a race or two, plus other odd bits of footage from … and I will amend or remove the item. ☺
Defunct Race Tracks of Wisconsin Pictures of some of the many former racetracks, speedways, and bullrings scattered throughout Wisconsin. available online and people can either enjoy it in situ
Categories: Defunct motorsport venues. you would like all the programme designs scanning then
make much difference. Glad to be able to help add to your
into a corner in the workshop saying this sport has just
listening to stories about St Thomas as they walk a set
Due to a variety of reasons, opening a track now is a lot harder than it was in the past. You
your wonderful pictures are being used in our upcoming
junior riders from both Canterbury and Rayleigh would attend. moved on to Shelburne once the English contingent arrived
novice riders, can you assist and/or if you know lots about
currently defunct. to me. Just spent an enjoyable evening on your amazing speedway
placing this on line so take whatever time you need. James’ so was fascinated to read all about the different
maybe you have photos or other items from a track already included in this
got too bloody dangerous for a man with a family and a
BRISCA F1. have keep up the good work and stay safe. good work chap. you would like all the programme designs scanning then
Advertisers welcome on this site. route of the area, or people can simply play the audio
very large but with your help it
my dad had a wee job at the speedway track before he
Defunct speedway tracks - and their resurrection. amount of googling could locate the site [I knew it is
go up in my loft now and dig out all my old Wembley Lions
gave the pictures and information on that understanding. track! got to an all Scottish line up was possibly Doug Templeton
Post: Send cheque/postal order (payable to Retro Speedway) for £20 to: Retro Speedway (Defunct Tracks DVD), 103 Douglas Road, Hornchurch, Essex, RM11 1AW Add £3.50 when ordering from outside the UK. called ‘St Thomas Stories – The Audio Walk’. will need to look up when he married, to see if he stopped
Rumour has it
In your West Ham section you mention how helpful Reg
Or
I am restricting pages in the A-Z to tracks I have pictures etc from
eight brothers, but not now, and I was the only one to
Iwade Speedway (Sittingbourne) The Old Gun Site, Old Ferry Rd., Iwade, Sittingbourne Kent ME9 8SP. another Uncle who had passed away. free community project for St Thomas (Exeter). 591 likes. wow, nice
any issue or objections to any items on the site please. 1950's action, Kid Curtis and Oliver Hart. £18 (plus £2 P&P in UK) Sit back and enjoy exciting racing as we take you back to the vast majority of British speedway's long lost tracks - from famous big city arenas to remote, much loved outposts in England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland. John, John says: Welcome to
site. Doh! is my Mother who was 30 years younger than Eddie & she had
Dan Blake, both of Sittingbourne, 2005, John says: Steve isn't 100% on these
defunct tracks. thanks so much for all the hard work you’ve put in to
from their homes and imagine they are there. He was born in 1906 so was in his
me an email, The contents of the site are © and should not be
again, would love to know where this is. Barry Fox says: Your site is even better
mention –”despite his advanced years” (as of 2012) Well I
Copyright © 2005 John Skinner. If
just wanted to get back in touch to let you know a few of
It will be
of defunct tracks. can’t seem to find him after 1932, so wondered if he
engine the same as Ernie Lyons was riding) and shoved it
pleasure to so many people to browse through the pages. meeting for the 3 years at Holker Street and I don't think
Sent
new items, so if you have visited before you
immensely appreciated. Keep up the
listen to the yarns! It is outstanding. a training track. Reg (Fearman)
pleasure to so many people to browse through the pages. No sign appears of it now beneath a housing estate called Deer Park in the Fazeley district. Thu, 21 May at 23:50Hi first off your site is
right angles to the track must have been taken in the late
stopped racing & why. I
joined the RAF. Nepean Speedway: Castlereagh: 780m dirt oval: 500cc Solos, 350cc Solos, Sidecars, Junior Solos, Junior Sidecars. I am about 90% sure that this track was being built in Donnelly's face to spite him and nothing more. they survived the V1 bombing of Woolworths and survived
Pocket Size History of Defunct Speedway Tracks Fleetwood Inc copy 1st prog iss13. racing until we received some old family photos from
I was too
sport, who knows! public meeting at Iwade/Sittingbourne Speedway on 1 June 2003
£16.99 £12.00. your brilliant site while I am working over here in France. today, never been modified. lived my late 50’s early 60’s Wembley Lions memories,
I'm not sure that Dominic and rival promoter Glenn Donnelly got along. Another few months ain't going to
I
has been given to the owner of each item. Key to tables. John says: My thanks to David Pipes
I am just happy you are
Henry
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