KevH 257 Posted March 19, 2005 1976-77 ish....... Intercontinental Final or similar......... John Davis and Dave Jessup trying to team-ride and keep Peter Collins in third place, but PC split the pair of them in the fairest and best manouvre I can remember - that's the clearest memory I've got of White City. Others include watching the riders appear from the tunnel under the centre green, the gap of about 6" between the stadium wall and the M40 fly-over, Bruce Penhall's British debut, the original Grand Prix Final, the echos and the street parking (happy days). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Team Man 32 Posted March 19, 2005 Funny thing that stays in my mind was the lamp standards laid down for daytime meetings to improve the sightlines Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
fireblade 0 Posted March 19, 2005 QPR football club had two spells at White City and you may be interested to know that there are proposals to build a new stadium at White City adjacent to the old place to house Fulham F.C. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BritPete 625 Posted March 19, 2005 I went to this stadium just once, it was a world final qualifying meeting, can't remember which one, don't remember much about the stadium either, but, as a Swindon supporter, what I do remember is Bob Kilby beating Ivan mauger! probably Bob's only heat win of the night! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Steve Dixon Posted March 19, 2005 Only went there once and what a dissapointment. 1982 Overseas final expecting the Mighty Mort to have a stunner(as he usually did there)Instead managed a score of around 4 points.......gutted. That by the way was the Bruce Penhall meeting, if you know what i mean! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
fireblade 0 Posted March 20, 2005 Wasn't that the Intercontinental? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Steve Dixon Posted March 20, 2005 Overseas FB Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hullangel 0 Posted March 20, 2005 Went to WC to see the Hull Lada Vikings ride a league match there in the afternoon then onto Wimbledon for the Embassy International in the evening . The Vikings won of course........remember Mitch Graham moved the signs on the centre green around to read.......WITE SCHITY BEREL....or something like that, it was a long time ago...........also seem to remember Hull won the Benidorm cup that day???????????????? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
boywonder 0 Posted March 21, 2005 Volume three of The Sweeney's DVD collection has the episode showing two riders going around White City one afternoon,circa 1976, in practice before pulling up on the dog track for a chat wiv mister regan. There's about 50 seconds of "helmet cam" too., Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
fireblade 0 Posted April 1, 2005 ...aint one of them Thommo? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dave67 15 Posted April 3, 2005 I used to travel on the A40 to work in Central London in the early 90's & always used to sit in the traffic trying to work out the layout of the stadium & feeling sad that it was covered in BBC Portakabins. My only other memory is as a small child driving past on a coach when it was all lit up one night, must have been open, seemed massive Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
