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and another 200 pot
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another 250 pot
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ive left the table, i've been sick
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yeah i come off up thio wiper all my mug footie bets out
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How is your head this morning Ron? [;)]
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OK ish now SB
Right Sorry for de-railing this thread. Are we still looking for 2 tracks? to make 33 |
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Greenford Park opened in November 1927. It also included trotting & grass track motor cycle racing.
A video can be seen if you use "Google" |
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That link eyeball put up of Mitcham tracks worth a look
http://www.groundtastic.co.uk/Postcards/Mitcham%20card.htm |
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Armadale Askern Ayr Battersea Belle Vue
Bletchley Bolton (Raikes Park) Boston Bristol (Eastville) Brixton Brough Park Cambridge Canterbury Cardiff (Arms Park) Cardiff (White City) Cartyne (Glasgow) Castleford Catford Charlton Chesterton (Stoke) Clapton Clydeholm Clyde Valley Coatbridge CorbieWood Coundon Coventry Cowdenbeath Cradley Heath Crayford Derby Dunmore Easington Edmonton Ellesmere Port Gateshead Gloucester Gosforth (Newcastle) Greenfield Groveway (Milton Keynes) Hackney Halcrow Halifax Hall Green Hanley Harlow Harringay Hendon Henlow Highgate (Rotherham) Hinckley Horsley Hill Houghton Hove Hull (Craven Park) Ipswich Kings Heath Kinsley Knowle (Bristol) Leeds Leicester Liverpool (White City) Long Eaton Manchester (White City) Marsh Barton Middlesbrough Mildenhall Monmore Green Newcastle (White City) New Cross Norton Canes Norwich Nottingham Owlerton (Sheffield) Oxford Paisley (Love Road) Park Royal Pelaw Grange Perry Barr Peterborough Plymouth (Pennycross) Poole Poolstock (Wigan) Portsmouth Powderhall Ramsgate Rayleigh (Southend) Reading Rochdale Rochester Romford Rye House Seaforth (Liverpool) Shawfield Shelbourne Sittingbourne Slough Southall Southampton Southend South Shields South Wales Staines Stainforth (Meadow Court) Stamford Bridge Sunderland Swaffham Swansea Swindon Tamworth Walthamstow Wandsworth Wembley West Ham Weymouth White City Willenhall Wimbledon Wombwell Workington Yarmouth |
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The Mitcham one was near the Old Tooting and mitcham ground.
i bought an aerial view photo after Mr memory flagged it up last time. |
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I never knew there was a dog track at Mitcham or Crystal Palace.Actually I never even heard of them spoken about in the past.Perry Vale was a proper 4 bend track not a straight,I wrote all about it on the "New Cross,anyone ever go there?"thread that was going a year or two back.
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.... ah sandy lane ,,,, those were the days ...saw Paddy Hasty play there
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"irishone"...........Paddy Hasty was a bit of a handful.......my schoolfriend Brian Bennet was their centre half.
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mr stupid you missed watford
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yeah surprised at that..printed that lot off at www.greyhoundderby.com.
thought there might be a couple of missing london ones in there . |
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cracking pictures of stadiums long gone , not only London ones.....West Ham , New Cross , White City ,Harringay etc.
http://www.defunctspeedway.co.uk/A%20to%20Z.htm |
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Remember going to Watford when it was a flapping track the lighting was so poor the rabbit had a light on its tail.
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Sad to see the stow go but nothing compared to the loss of harringay ...where it all started for me and to see them tote dials again bought the memories flooding back.
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Mr Memory: did Brian Bennett also play for Hounslow Town?
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"expat"......Brian was in the same year as me at Greenford County School & eventually became the school goalkeeper. After his National Service he started playing out on the field for a side called Argyle Youth who played on a Sunday.......very unfashionable in those days.
Hounslow Town, a Corinthian League club, picked him up & he later joined Tooting & Mitcham.......playing in the two cup ties against Nottingham Forest. I last saw Brian at a school reunion 5 or 6 years ago.....he had put a few pounds on. |
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Mr Memory, thank you for yet more information! I did remember the name from when I was a young lad, and saw all the Hounslow home games, as the ground was a very short walk away.
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"expat".......If I remember correctly, Hounslow had a superb wing half called Evans. I followed Hendon & used to travel to Hounslow on a 120 bus.
I believe that a former Hendon centre half called Morley joined you.........an interesting piece of information.....he played the trombone in a Salvation Army band. |
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Paddy Hasty was a Para wasn't he ?
Best hounslow player was big Cyril wasn't it, or was it Hayes ? I know he kicked lumps out of me ! |
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Dont know if this helps Gerry Fisher had a track at Sunbury, at the rugby club Snakey Lane, Jonto Carter had all the 6 dogs in a race one day and there was mayhem.
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Mr Memory, apologies for the late reply, I am still working, away a lot, and not long back at the hotel in Port of Spain, Trinidad. All I can say is that it is much warmer and wetter here! The half-back was Derek Evans: no. 6. He was an England amateur international, and not sure if he didn't captain the side once. I don't remember Morley very well, but that doesn't mean he was a a player there. I remember going with my parents on the Hounslow coach to a cup match versus Hendon at White Hart Lane (50's). Hendon were the 'lucky' winners, as they scored from an indirect free kick where the ref said the ball had brushed the flapping shorts of a Hounslow player!
The 120 bus did indeed go near the ground, travelling down Lampton Road, but more importantly it was a method of conveyance to Southall Dog track at the Havelock Road junction in Southall. I assume you also used it for that? One of the Hounslow stalwarts in those days was Bobby Briggs, a lovely chap, and a real old-fashioned 'doggy' man, who enjoyed nothing more than his nights at the dogs. I was Isleworth County School(later grammar), but our sporting network did not include yours, but we did play somebody close by called Drayton Manor if I remember correctly. Irishone: the only 'Cyril' I remember was Cyrille Regis, who was discovered when he played for Hayes in, I belive, the early 70's. I had long left the area, but visited the ground when visiting my parents. Saw him star for Hayes at Hounslow one day. Southwark Star: you are right, that operated in the early 70's, on Saturday mornings I think. I did not know it was run by Jerry Fisher. I had only heard of, and seen Jonto. He could be seen sometimes at Slough, standing at the first bend, and the word would be 'what's Jonto here for'? I did not know anything about him, except that his father had been well-known, but I am sure that Mr Memory or yourself could provide some more information (for me)! |
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Hayes was it ex-pat, thanks for that, he could handle himself that lad !
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"Hounslow Town, a Corinthian League club, picked him up & he later joined Tooting & Mitcham.......playing in the two cup ties against Nottingham Forest."
Roy Dwight is involved in here Mr Memory, think he played for Forest in those games, broke his leg in 58 Cup final, ended up Tooting player/manager and Catford Greyhound Stadium GM I think. Great fellah, was a PE teacher in Forest Hill too and of course Elton's cousin ! |
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no he was eltons uncle not his cousin.... memory eh !
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"expat".........Where do we start?
If you are staying at the split level Hilton, my pal Joe Savage was the Project Manager when it was built in 1970/1.....in the days of Eric Williams. I missed the 1955 semi final as it clashed with a friends wedding in Battersea. Whilst I knew Jonto Carter, I knew his father, Fred, better. He lived in Mora Road, Cricklewood & I first met him behind the goal at Claremont Road. To my knowledge, he had four careers on the go at the same time: 1). He drove a lorry out of Covent Garden for Meyers first thing. 2). He had the newspaper pitch outside Willesden Green tube station. 3). He did the bill posting for Hendon, Finchley & Wingate football clubs, together with Cricklewood Roller Skating Rink. 4). He trained flappers......Mr.Albert Dimes was one of his patrons. He employed me, on occasions, as a "clean looking" unknown lad to take a dog in.......he introduced me to the delights of Watford, Luton & Syston. I once played an innocent role in an extraordinary plot at Harlington Corner....it was successful & Fred let me keep the winners prize money that I had collected as wages.......I think that it came to £2. Whist Isleworth was not on our circuit, Spring Grove was.....the nearest football pitch to a trolleybus stop that I ever played on. I celebrated the birth of my son in the Old Isleworthians clubhouse.......they did not seem to pay a great deal of respect to licencing laws in 1966. |
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"irishone"........I believe that Roy Dwight was the Racing Manager at Crayford at one time.
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Mr Memory, you are truly a legend in an era where the word is often misused.
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Mr Memory: Good Morning from my room in the 'upside-down' Hilton Hotel. My room overlooks the Savannah, where you can still see the outline of the old horse racetrack. It is my 4th visit in the last 11 months, but only a week this time. The Hotel is on the side of the hill, and all floors in the old part are lower than the lobby. There are 2 higher floors in the new part.
Thank you very much for the information about Jonto, I always wondered who he was. The semi-finals were 1955, so it must have been around my 7th birthday: a youngster! Spring Grove was by the 657 trolley bus stop, next to Isleworth Fire Station. The school then was in an old house and prefabs, but in the 60's it moved up by the A4 at Lampton. We were just up the hill from them, but at lunchtime you were not allowed to cross 'The Grove; to their side of the road. It was out of bounds, and prefects used to monitor it! There were girls at that school! Must go to Breakfast now, and then to work! |
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Roy Dwight played for Fulham and then Forest. broke his leg in the Cup final and told me he watched the end of the game from hospital.
He was later a PE teacher, later wotked in the Racing Office at Crayford, then Catford. Very nice fellow. I remember that name from the past Paddy hasty. |
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THANKS for the link eyeball some great old tracks on show i wish they were still around brings back some good and very sad times for me be lucky all
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"eyeball"..........Wigan was just as I remembered it from nearly 60 years ago..........superb.
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"expat".....Greenford had girls as well & I ended up marrying one of them over 50 years ago.
She is downstairs sewing a button on a shirt........thank God for Miss Walker & her Domestic Science lessons. |
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Mr Stupid - more for your list, Bradford City Dog Track, Greenfield Dog Track (bradford) both on opposite sides of Bradford town, White City Manchester and I believe many many years ago Keighley
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wow mr. memory.....you must go back a long way ?
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