Reading Smallmead

Defunct Speedway Tracks

Reading Speedway (Smallmead)

Smallmead Stadium, A33 Relief Road, Smallmead, Reading, Berkshire. Reading have had four venues but this page concerns itself with Smallmead which ran between 1975-2008

Smallmead 2009

Courtesy of Reg Fearman

Reading Speedway Update

Driving past the proposed new two venues recently in Reading, I popped in to have a look. "The sods have yet to turn a sod". The derelict Speedway Stadium, the proposed site for a "Prudential" office block, remained a target for vandals until a fence was put around the site. The site remains just that - a derelict Speedway Stadium. The new proposed Speedway and Greyhound stadium remains as far away as ever. The site was once used for Moto Cross and there was an access road to it. This has long been blocked off with earth and hardcore. The only activity going on is some road widening to the Council Amenities Site-- to you and me in old fashioned English, the Rubbish Dump !!!
Reg Fearman
May 2009

Newspaper clip courtesy of Reg Fearman and the Reading Evening Post

A very sad sight for the Reading faithful

Smallmead 1974

Laying The Track Base Very Important - Terracing Track Nearing Completion
This is Smallmead under construction back in 1974. Tilehurst Promoter Reg Fearman had taken the sport from its previous home at Tilehurst to Smallmead. Read Reg's account of things here Reading.

It is hoped that a new stadium will be built just up the road from Smallmead Stadium and it is also hoped that speedway will return to the town in 2010.

I know that Reg has a soft spot for the Reading supporters and he is quite upset by the closure of the fine stadium he had built 35 years ago.

Reg has offered to supply the site with some of his photographs and views which may make the Reading page the best page on the website.

RIP Smallmead

1 of 52 lamp standards being erected

The Back Stand under construction

The Pits corner, greyhound track and walkway.

The starting gate is now in position and for those of you too young to know there is a Ford Escort Van and a Morris Minor in front of the bar both are now museum pieces.