BOBBATH

Teambouchard -thanx for clearing this up.Actually when you said that the programme cover changed in late June 1965 I thought you must be wrong as I could only recall red ones, I checked(I still have all my programmes at my home in Canada) and I noted that my first visit to L.E.( a stadium I always enjoyed going to, ditto the pavilion pub and the fish and chip shop outside the Station Road gate) was in July 1965-LE 35-Newport 43(first BL season) after it had changed from green .Good for you and thanx for the memories!!

Thanx Midland Red- I really liked that pub-Measham that's it-do they still have car auctions there-a picturesque town on the way to Notm was Ashby .Thanx again mate

Paulco-they were indeed the "Archers", also jackof diamonds -that goes along with my memory-I'm in fact beginning to think it may have been 1967 they changed to red and yellow-the last year before they moved to Leicester as the "Lions"-I think we've established its either 66 or 67.

I recall this well -the Archers changed from a green figure on yellow background to red figure on yellow background-reason given was that green was an "unlucky" colour.For sure in 1964 the Archers were green and yellow, I thought also in 1965 -but that they changed in 1966. One guy who would know would be Philip Dalling who used to write their match reports in Speedway Star-don't know if anybody knows him.

Just be glad he didn't try to courier drugs into China!!!!!!!!

Do you think there is any chance of Caister Road reopening-if it did I'd come over from Canada just to go there.

Thanx mate-the demise of the English pub brings it home to me that England as I recall it has changed.Speaking tho' of pubs I associate with speedway, is the "Four Counties"-between Brum and Nottingham still there-?????may have been near Tamworth or the town they had the car auctions(the name of which I forgot). Used to stop there and have a pint with buddies on the way back from CH. to Nottm.

Speaking of boozers -did there use to be a pub called "Duke of Nottingham" or something similar outside West ham Stadium? Is it still there?

Thanx for directing me to this site mate-its great-also got on to various Cup Finals and reviews of the year e.g. 1956-did so many men really wear ties all the time-I'd forgotten that.

Thanx for the update Haggis -glad everything worked out for them in Aussie

Ditto me of course although I recall Dick at Somerton Park. Still think Wasps would have won the inaugural Brit League if Dick had been fit.!!!!!!!!!

The consensus so far seems to be Split-anyone else besides me vote for Olle -or any of the other riders.????

No way lucifer sam-I put in my post that it had to be a neutral track for the very reason you outline-no question that Wembley favoured home riders and to me Tommy Price's and Fred's wins are questionable-perhaps like Egon Muller's win at Norden. Pick any neutral track you like e.g. Cardiff, Costa Mesa or my own personal favourite-Paris, Ontario. The latter is a Canadian version of the frying pan at New X.

What's off topic about that??Olle is one tough Swede!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah it could have gone either way-how would you guys compare Fred Williams to Split-any disagreement with the top three being the top three!!

Anybody have any comments on the above -other than those of the nature of "you gotta get a life".In retrospect I may have been too generous to Billy Bales -but remember they are all riding at their peak-don't tell Danny Dunton I gave him zero points.How would some other forumlanders feel they would have finished up!!!!!

Yes the world is ending on 21 December 2012-I am OK though because I have all my investment certificates coming due on Dec 20th 2012-I am golden boy!

I think Basil was not Eric Linden-different guy altogether altho' Eric had many other names e.g. Angus Kix

Come on you guys -the best is yet to come-40 years ago I got worried when I didn't get invited to a party-now I get worried if I am invited to a party

Don't worry folks the world is ending in 2012

To old chap-think you are thinking of Basil Storey(used to wear a bow tie) for Speedway gazette editor

Don't know if any forumlanders ever go to the bookshops in Hay-on-Wye but its amazing what they have there-I always try to get there when am in UK. Anybody read Enid Blyton stories-new biography of her says she was a real dragon-nasty to her daughters-lots of affairs, had a lesbian affair and played tennis naked-not all at the same time though!!- she's really gone up in my estimation -what a gal. Just so I don't get criticised for going off topic by not mentioning speedway in this post -I will add the following-does anybody know whether Enid was a speedway fan???????

Brian Hamilton-can't help you there Brian -are used to get videotapes of the old World Finals sent to me-then I had to take them to a specialty shop and they were transferred to North American compatibility but don't know the answer re DVD's-was thinking of purchasing Malcolm Simmons DVD from Uk but knew I would run into your problem in reverse so couldn't be bothered-perhaps an electronics/computer store in UK could help?

Ian Martin -glad you got there-if you enter World Speedway Finals in there you can see heats from I think 1969 and 1957-also I enter in sometimes "77 Sunset Strip" and watch bits of old episodes(ditto Sgt. Bilko),its amazing what is on there-I am interested in history-entered in Stanley Baldwin and saw him give an election broadcast in the early thirties-had never heard his voice before. Of course also your favorite singers movie stars etc-even entered(metaphorically of course) Shirley Ann Field and saw her(sigh) in the 60's movie "Beat Girl" with Adam Faith and Oliver Reed(RIP).Youtube is a wonderful site. P.S. Notice how I worked speedway in there so its consistent with our guidelines for discussion!!!

Ian Martin-sadly Ian I am a worse technopeasant than you as I don't know how to post a link. But hope this helps- enter youtube on google or youtube.com on google.That'll take you to youtube homepage-there is a window at the top where you can type stuff in. You may have to register first can't remember. In that window type in TV Western Themes and a whole bunch of stuff comes up-then you just have to click on the clip you want to watch.Hope this helps but if not perhaps someone in forumland more adept at computers than me can describe this better.