New Cradley Heath track?

[*JJ 512]

According to the Express & Star newspaper, a consortium has been set up to try to revive the Heathens, and have secured the backing of Dudley Council, with four possible sites. They have £300,000 to finance the track. One of the consortium is Geoff Collins, owner of CovComp, who runs the spares van at Perry Barr.

[Toady 231]

Fyi this  was reported in s/star last week and is mentioned in another thread( new club for 2024)

[steve roberts 9,246]

3 hours ago, *JJ said:

According to the Express & Star newspaper, a consortium has been set up to try to revive the Heathens, and have secured the backing of Dudley Council, with four possible sites. They have £300,000 to finance the track. One of the consortium is Geoff Collins, owner of CovComp, who runs the spares van at Perry Barr.

That's good news and hopefully something positive may come out of it?

[Deano 1,318]

I can’t believe Cradley has been closed longer than the Brummies were!

[OGT 612]

On 9/29/2023 at 7:10 PM, Deano said:

I can’t believe Cradley has been closed longer than the Brummies were!

It's baffling really. The Heathens were the jewel in the crown of British speedway and Dudley council have ignored that fact for nigh on 30 years. Crazy. 

[Ray Stadia 1,071]

2 hours ago, OGT said:

It's baffling really. The Heathens were the jewel in the crown of British speedway and Dudley council have ignored that fact for nigh on 30 years. Crazy. 

Blame the Pughs! 

[PotteringAround 633]

4 minutes ago, Ray Stadia said:

Blame the Pughs! 

and Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble, and Grub.

 

[THE DEAN MACHINE 4,756]

Cradley’s biggest problem is an obvious one, the lack of land available in the Cradley /Dudley area, I have seen first hand the efforts to secure some land to put a track but you would be surprised how much land is owned by the church and they are not interested in putting a speedway track on any of it, there has been a few glimmers of hope over the last year or so but they have ultimately come to nothing but the search goes on, hopefully one site will be the breakthrough, the will is there 

[*JJ 512]

I spoke to Geoff Collins a couple of weeks ago about this; he just grinned and said, 'Irons in the fire'.

[Gert Handbag 10]

This is such fantastic news, fingers crossed.

Whilst there are many Cradley legends, if this does happen could we have a match with Wolves for the Nigel Pearson trophy? 

[ElmParkRG2 13]

On 11/3/2023 at 4:22 PM, Gert Handbag said:

This is such fantastic news, fingers crossed.

Whilst there are many Cradley legends, if this does happen could we have a match with Wolves for the Nigel Pearson trophy? 

It could be that the Cradley track will be the home of "Wolves". as they don't  exist anymore.

[uk_martin 1,606]

On 10/13/2023 at 10:26 AM, *JJ said:

I spoke to Geoff Collins a couple of weeks ago about this; he just grinned and said, 'Irons in the fire'.

So, what's he found that local lads Pearson (RIP) Patchett and CVS never found in their 3 years of looking?

[*JJ 512]

18 hours ago, uk_martin said:

So, what's he found that local lads Pearson (RIP) Patchett and CVS never found in their 3 years of looking?

Dunno; you had better go and ask him?

[HGould 2,213]

19 hours ago, uk_martin said:

So, what's he found that local lads Pearson (RIP) Patchett and CVS never found in their 3 years of looking?

Geoff probably looked a lot harder and more seriously than they did at times. 

Whilst Cradley were using Monmore and getting decent Crowds the intensity of the search most likely subsided. 

CVS had his hands full, Pearson had his hands full as for Patchett who knows? 

Edited November 6, 2023 by HGould
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