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| Blackpool
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| Blackpool & Fylde Motor and Aero Club,
Highfield Road Sports Ground, South Shore, Blackpool operated 1928-1930. |
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Ian Whittle says: Hi, thanks for the brilliant Defunct
Speedway site.
Regarding Blackpool tracks, my understanding is the
highlighted outlined track you show on Blackpool St Annes road
map is actually the massive, former trotting track, Highfield
road, and the St Annes road track is to the west, the much
smaller "Greyhound stadium". Hope this helps. Thanks and
Regards, Ian
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| Blackpool Highfield Road Advert |
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Blackpool
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| Graham Gleave has supplied the above item
which shows 19 meetings at this track during 1929 |
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| The above items are courtesy of Graham
Gleave |
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| My thanks to Graham Gleave who has supplied many newsprint
copy as above and which I have shown throughout my Defunct
Speedway website. |
| Blackpool has had two venues but neither survived after the
early days. Such a pity for the town as the resort draws so
many holiday makers, some of which may have frequented an
established Blackpool Speedway. |
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| Courtesy of
Speedway Swap Shop |
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| 1928
Douglas Dirt Track Bike |
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| Bikes like this 1928 Douglas would have
been winning races at the Blackpool track in 1929. |
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| My friend from Manchester, Graham Gleave
has supplied me with dozens of images of speedway in Argentina
during 1929/30. The images came from a photograph album owned by
Syd Newiss. They are on their own page now, see "Argentina
1929-30." Graham thinks a few of the images at the
end of the album may have been taken at the Blackpool track.
I have no way of ratifying Graham's view but have decided to put
the pictures on the Blackpool page anyway. If you can
confirm they were taken at Blackpool's Highfield Rd Sports Ground then please send me an email
John or if you can say they
do not show the Blackpool track/stadium then I will move them to
another page on the website. |
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| Blackpool
Advertising Vehicle |
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| Most definitely in Blackpool so maybe the
following images were taken in and around Highfield Road Sports
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| Speedway in the UK needs venues in places
like Blackpool. Blackpool's visitors/holiday makers number
in their hundreds of thousands. The influx of visitors may
be looking for somewhere to go or just something to treat the kids
too. But alas no speedway in Blackpool! So potential
speedway customers go elswhere to spend their money. |
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| Possible Blackpool Photos |
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| As these photo's were included in Syd
Newiss's photograph album and this riders helmet shows "SN" I
presume that this is Syd? If not please let me know
John Does Syd know
his bike hasn't got a fuel tank! |
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| Blackpool 1 |
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| Help please, is this Blackpool and who is
the rider
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Dudley Newiss says: Blackpool 1 is possibly my uncle Syd
Newiss
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| Blackpool 2 |
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| Help please, the big grandstand is the
clue with this photo. Is this Blackpool and who are these
guys?
John |
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| Blackpool 3 & 4 |
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| Blackpool 3 The odd structure is a clue
to this location. Can you name this guy
John and right Blackpool 4
seems to indicate this isn't speedway, unless the same location
did hill climbs or scrambling? |
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Graham Gleave
says: Went back to the Blackpool stuff I sent you no 1, 3, 4 of
the photos are definitely pics of Post Hill.
Not Blackpool.
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| Blackpool 5 |
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| What it must have been like for riders to
own an early car, motorcycle and trailer around 1929. Plus
4's and tartan socks for the trips to the early tracks! A
great period photograph but was it taken on a trip to Blackpool
speedway?
John |
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| Blackpool 6 |
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| A blurry image of someone riding a dirt
track but was this Blackpool?
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| Blackpool 7 |
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| Graham Gleave says: Hi John.
Just been on your amended website. Well the Argentina
1929/30 pictures have come out really good, blown up.
You certainly included ones I didn't think you'd want i.e. the
holiday ones. It will certainly fill your webpages. It
should be interesting to see the one with the Blackpool advert
on it. To me the pictures on the last 4 -5 pages of Syd
Newiss's photograph album seem to feature the Blackpool track.
The picture with the 2 ladies leaning on a fence look like the
outer dog track fence with the speedway one on the inner also
the action pics that you have blown up look like the old type
of lights you would have had at Newcastle 1 pole with a light
on the dog track & 1 on the speedway track. That picture
was the only one with a date on it being 14/9/28,this would be
a Friday as they raced on Tues. & Thurs. Sid Newiss raced in
the meeting on Tues. 11/9/28 but I haven't seen his name for
the Thurs. info on Jim Henry's site, so I would think they
stayed in Blackpool for a few days. I have just contacted
Blackpool library's website but they cannot find any thing to
help.
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| Blackpool 8 |
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| A great photo of the chain link fencing
and yes a rider almost featured in this photo! The dirt
track is deep and rutted modern day riders would refuse to ride on
a deep track like this one but I have to keep asking was this Blackpool? |
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| Blackpool 9 |
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| I like the speed blurring on this
photograph. Another clue on whether this is Blackpool around
1929 is the row of trees in the background |
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| Blackpool 10 |
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| John says: Just a thought. "This
track looks to big to have been Blackpool, maybe it is from Syd
Newiss's trip to the Argentine but hey what do I know and I will
not be surprised if Blackpool turns out to have been a large
affair like in this photo" |
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| Blackpool 11 |
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| 3 on a bike sitting comfortably!
But the bike is a Douglas which had a longer wheelbase than any
other speedway bike. They couldn't have sat like this on
Douglass's main rival the Rudge as it was too short between its
wheels. Who are these people and yes you guessed it..Is this
Blackpool?
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Dudley Newiss says: I would say that Blackpool 11 definitely
is my uncle Syd. I should add that Sydney’s racing career
took place around 12 years before I was born, so he looks a
young man in these photographs, but I always remember him as
someone elderly – my father was the youngest of five and
Sydney was no. 2 or 3 son. There was a daughter and then my
father. He married a local (Manchester) girl – Connie
and when she died, he moved down south for work and married
someone in Folkestone and later, they divorced. He worked as a
mechanic.
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| Blackpool 12 |
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| A great picture
of a track staff member raking the cinders back in 1929. A
decent cross section of the crowd but yes "was this Blackpool"
John |
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| Ted Egerton |
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| Courtesy of Graham Gleave |
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| Ted rode at Blackpool on 13 September
1928 |
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| My thanks to Graham Gleave for choosing
my website to show pictures from the Syd Newiss photo album.
Graham spends many hours researching speedway which paid off big
time as he is able to bring us many pictures like those above and
the images on the
Argentina 1929/30 page.
Well done Graham. |
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| Nothing else
for Blackpool.
so far! If you
can help please
Contact Me |
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