Defunct Tracks

Defunct Speedway Tracks

Welcome to the site dedicated to UK speedways that are currently defunct. I started this site in 2007 and it is already quite large but with your help it will grow and grow. Do you live in a town that once had a speedway not shown in my A-Z section, If so send me an email and help me add yet another track to our site. Or maybe you have photos or other items from a track already included in this site if so why not share them with the speedway community by emailing them to me. email At present I am restricting pages in the A-Z to tracks I have pictures etc from. In the future I will attempt to create a team page for every track, including those I do not have pictures of.

The site is not just a "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. The site has 7 pages of the different bikes used by speedway riders. Any photos you have are of interest to me, so scan them in and email them to me. John

Courtesy of The John Chaplin Collection 1950's Kid Curtis and Oliver Hart

Recent additions to website: Wembley Audenshaw Harringay Plymouth Nelson West Ham Exeter Alphington Hastings Birmingham Bordesley Green Ellesmere Port Neath St Austell Card Sets Walthamstow Leicester Pre Speedway Misc 1 Misc 2 Misc 3 If you haven't looked at the Reg Fearman pages yet. Why not visit now. Reg has sent us dozens of his own photographs spread over 8 webpages. The John Chaplin Page has many vintage photo's so check his page out too. My Ivan Mauger pages contain pictures endorsed by Ivan. More recently added to pages are: Veterans California in England Reg Fearman 8 Barford (Co Durham) Middlesbrough Neath Ellesmere Port Crystal Palace Canterbury Bikes page 7 Doncaster Skegness

The website changes all of the time so if you have visited before you may find new items.

Igor Plechanov 1966
Russian Igor Plechanov leads England's Nigel Boocock in the mid sixties

I normally charge a small fee for putting adverts on my websites but am happy to show the following ad for free as I know Jim is doing the Researcher for the love of the sport and does not make much from his Speedway Research. Happy to help you Jim, keep up the good work: -

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SPEEDWAY RESEARCHER

Speedway Researcher magazine, This was set up to help fellow researchers into the history of Solo motorcycle speedway racing get in touch with each other, is now in its 15th Volume.

It is edited and published by Jim Henry and Graham Fraser and the subscription is currently £5 per volume of four editions. Overseas rate details on application. The magazine has a website which will, eventually, provide a record of every meeting in the UK since 1928. This can be viewed at www.speedwayresearcher.org.uk The heat-by-heat meeting records are by no means complete and any help to fill the gaps in the information base is very welcome. In addition the site has a large number of back numbers of The Speedway Researcher magazine which can be downloaded. The editors welcome articles about Solo speedway matters. For details of overseas subscription rates, contact Jim Henry at jamesjhenry@yahoo.co.uk

If your track closed down lets hear from you with your photographs, programmes etc. email me here John

The contents of the site are © and should not be reproduced elsewhere for financial gain. The contributors to this site gave the pictures and information on that understanding. If anyone has any issue or objections to any items on the site please e-mail and I will amend or remove the item. Where possible credit has been given to the owner of each item. If you have any photos from 1929 to date, that you want to share with the speedway community then please email

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Name The Rider Part 1

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Name The Rider Part 3

Miscellaneous 1

Miscellaneous 2

Miscellaneous 3

Miscellaneous 4

Reg Fearman 1

Reg Fearman 2