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Coventry City Council has granted outline planning permission for a residential development of up to 2,400 homes on the west of the city centre. Does this make residential development of the site less likely??

I think when the Russians came over in (maybe) 1965 at Wimbledon - Plechanov and Samoradov scored significantly more than the rest of the team put together.

Sorry - I meant plainly obvious that he has age related health issues.

I thought that was plainly obvious.

Do your remember a yard of ale competition - I think Reg Luckhurst took part - around 1969.

OK for riders to go to North Korea then...

Yes - son of clerk of the course - and ex pusher off person.

Nigel Rackett rode at the same period as Gordon Kennett - around 1970/71.

Didnt it piiss down with rain?? or was that the previous last meeting??

Penny farthing at Eastbourne - around 1970 - one of the riders broke collar bone falling off.

Fantastic video - at 22.15 he stops so suddenly - it seems as if he has used a brake.

I think Matchams Park was running - maybe for just a year - around 1970. I visited once.

Not popular to be next to in the pits - I was told...

Under - sounds like non compliance with fire regs.

Have the council done sound tests??

Could that be Paul Dowdall in white?? whoever it was he owes someone an apology...

I think speedway will become mostly amateur - not by planning or design - but by evolution - that is the extinction of fans and tracks. It will become like motor racing - where the spectators at club events are usually the drivers’ family and friends apart from a few hardcore fans sitting on a grassy bank. Grand Prix meetings will be supported massively.

Film just showed on the Talking Pictures channel - but can be found on Youtube - called There is another Sun. Some speedway from Walthamstow - a complete 'race' near the end - 1951.

Partly true about the characters - In the old days 60s and 70s you could meet the riders in the grandstand bar or the pub after the meeting for a pint and a fag - well at Wimbledon anyway. I remember riders attempting a yard of ale - Im pretty sure that wouldnt happen today...

Strange that the most important subject has few sensible ideas how to deal with it. Just like saving the planet!

Interviews here...

Class act. Always great team riding with Cyril Maidment at Wimbledon.

Well - I trust your knowledge - but I think he RARELY used flash - especially at Wimbledon. Someone told me he used to over expose when taking the picture - then under develop when making the neg (or the other way round) - and he probably played around with the printing. I always noticed the use of flash photography when the Lions went to Australia. Nowadays with better cameras and computer programs - my guess is a better shot could be obtained without flash...

Never like photos using flash - it stops the wheels - well the front anyway. Alf Weedon never used it...

It's about time the human race started worrying about more important things - like climate change, ice caps melting, sea levels rising, population growing, plastic in the sea and food chain, fossil fuel pollution. God knows what else - bloody ridiculous.