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A Short History |
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| John Coulston
says: Park Road was built from scratch by
Cliff Hindle (father of Ian) a local plant hire owner and had a series of
open meetings in 1977 and joined the league as Furness Flyers in 1978.The
racing was superb but the support wasn't sufficient to enable Cliff to
carry on. The problems were the location on the outskirts of town & lack
of covering to the elements. The local council didn't help matters in that
they only provided one special bus which left from outside the stadium at
9-15pm sharp whether the meeting had finished or not and there was no
other public transport. Also the track was earmarked as an industrial site
& they wouldn't give him a long term lease or allow him to put up signs
directing people to the track. |
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| Chris Roynon re-opened the track in 1984 for a series of open meetings and
joined the league in 1985 as Barrow Blackhawks but were thrown out due to
the team not meeting the minimum points limit although he staged a few
more open meetings that year. The stadium is now the site of a factory. |
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Another Short Park Road History |
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Adrian Pavey says:
Park Road became the third venue to host speedway
in Barrow when Cliff Hindle opened his purpose built 300yd track in
August 1977. Once again though, it was a short lived venture and Cliff
cut his losses and closed the track down at the end of the 1978 season.
Berwick then used the Park Road circuit for 5 "home" league matches and
1 KO cup match whilst waiting for their new circuit to open, a further 2
matches were rained off. |
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Chris Roynon then purchased Park Road
and introduced stock cars and speedway training sessions in 1983. 7
"open" speedway meetings featuring the Barrow Blackawks were held in
1984 and possibly the weakest team to ever grace the league started the
1985 season before they were expelled in May. Barrow continued with open
meetings and Intermediate challenge matches before speedway finally died
in Barrow for good on Sept 24th 1985. Stock cars continued use the Park
Road track in 1986 but Roynon replaced the track with a greyhound
circuit for 1987. Park Road was finally demolished and the site was
cleared in 1994 for the construction of a candle factory.
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These three pictures are of Park Road Stadium after the cessation of
racing there. Another defunct circuit lost to the sport |
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| If you can scan any pictures, programmes or badges from
when Park Road was in action please send
me an email John |
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