Allan Wood says: Hi John,  I somehow tuned into your site while looking for something else. Greenfield , I was 11 at the time. We used to go with Tommy Roper and Ray Day then come home on the Hebble bus back to Buttershaw. Some time ago I tried to piece together movements after Odsal in 1960. I believe they went to City Dog track up Listerhiils Lane next to BT’s yard and then to Greenfield . They built the track wrong here. It sloped inwards so all the water formed a lake when it rained. Riders refused to race the track and it closed.  Allan
Tell us some more Allan: John
Allan says: Hi John, My late grandmother was best friends with Tommy's mum . Grandma lived at Heaton Hill, Buttershaw and Tommy's garage was at Beck Hill. Both Tommy's and Ray Day's bikes were kept here so as kids we were regular visitors and hence the free lift and free entry to Greenfield . There is a mystery that I am still trying to unwind. If you Google Legrams Lane (City Dog track) there are pictures and fascinating articles . I am sure I have read somewhere that the speedway moved here before   Greenfield (but not league speedway) just friendly events. I wonder if its in a programme ? I will have a look. I don’t have any pictures from those days. Allan

Good to see more stuff on the Bradford Greenfield site and I have got some attached here. First though, I was surprised at Allan Wood's tale of speedway at Legrams Lane before Greenfield. The City Stadium, as it was called was primarily a greyhound track which also staged such things as celebrity football matches but in the late 30's it was one of Bradford's two Baseball stadia, the other being Greenfield. Baseball was enjoying a boom at the time in the North of England in particular and crowds were good. Greenfield had the Giants and City had the Sox, my Dad, was a regular at both ( he was young and single then) and left loads of programmes. The war seems to have killed off the boom. In the 1950s, at the City Stadium there was track racing but it wasn't speedway, it was a velodrome style track for cycle racing. Apparently there were several such tracks in Yorkshire, another one was at Roundhay and there was a track league. I lived locally to the stadium and was in there once for a football match, must have been not long before the fire in 1963. It does not seem to me that there would have been room for a speedway track. From my own research, the Bradford Panthers left Odsal after a disastrous 1960 season and always intended to move to Greenfield. The track began to be built in 1961 but there were several problems and it was not open until 15th August when Sheffield were the visitors. Open meetings were run the rest of the year before Provincial League racing in 1962.
I have attached a photograph of the stadium which clearly shows the track 
Dave Beecroft

Courtesy of Dave Beecroft