Andrew Gallon says: Hello John,I attach a few of my pics of Derwent Park, Workington, which (as I'm sure you know) closed to speedway at the end of the 2018 season. On and off, the venue hosted speedway between 1970 and 2018, including Glasgow/Workington Tigers' ill-fated truncated 'on the road' season of 1987. The Comets speedway team's former landlord, Workington Town Rugby League Club, has since removed the track and extended and relaid its pitch, to east and west, effectively precluding a return for speedway to Derwent Park.

Andrew Gallon has supplied all of the images in this section and he goes on to say: On a personal note, I'll always be grateful to Derwent Park for reviving my interest in speedway. As a schoolboy, I'd watched Halifax at The Shay but pretty much lost touch with the sport while away at university. My first job was in west Cumbria. Six months after I'd relocated there, homeless Glasgow, having been asked to leave Craighead Park at the end of the 1986 season, announced they'd be reopening Derwent Park to speedway from May 1987. This bold 'on the road' exercise wasn't a great success. Indeed, Glasgow were thrown out of the National League before the end of the season after numerous complaints from visiting clubs. Most gripes were about the track, which was dangerous because Glasgow officials, based miles away, were unable to do much work on it between meetings. One of the low points came at the end of August when, on a baking hot Sunday afternoon, Workington Tigers (as they'd renamed themselves) hosted Middlesbrough Bears. A nearby farmer's bowser was hastily acquired to water the dusty track before the first heat. Unfortunately, the bowser hadn't been cleaned, so the track found itself sprayed with a smelly mixture of water and slurry. The poor riders in that opening heat finished the race covered in the stuff! However, I really enjoyed what I saw at Derwent Park that summer and thereafter became a regular speedway follower.