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By hawks 1975 · Posted
Other fond memories of Friday nights at Waterden Road: Approaching from Carpenters Road, the smell! I don't know what they produced in some of those factories, but the perfume I remember thinking was mixture of cabbage boiled to death and marmite! Then as you got the the stadium entrance, it was replaced by that most delightful of aromas - Castrol R. Right up there with the smell of new mown grass and sizzling bacon! The teams marching out behind Len to The Magnificent Seven. So evocative, I remember it being played at Rye House in 2005 when Keith White, Bengt and Finn had a match race prior the Re-union and I don't mind admitting, it brought a tear to my eyes. The dulcet tones of Ted Sear Was it Len who christened him RED Ott?! I so wanted him to be star! I guess a lot of clubs had a similar chant - the fans got involved so in those day - so missed today. 2 4 6 8. Who do we apprec - ee - ate? H - A - C - K- N - E - Y Hackney - with Len always leaping into the air on the centre green with the final response. Hawkeye's often controversially one-eyed programme column, and his love of the Dons down the road, (sic). The nearest pub was the Carpenters Arms. Last time I looked it was still there, somewhat incongruously alongside the Olympic Park. We used to stop off there afterwards occasionally, and I will always remember being shocked after one meeting to find myself queuing up at the bar behind two great Swedes. Anders Michanek and Bengt Janssen had somehow beaten us to it! -
One for the rulebook experts If you have a rider called up to ride in this meeting and also have a league match the same day are the team entitled to A guest, R/R or an NDL guest not riding in the Championship
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I'm about a mile from the track and the rain is very light, been like it for an hour now and the ground isn't very wet and no puddles
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By BackInTheDHSS · Posted
Just arrived and it's raining heavily here. No way this is going to go ahead unless it miraculously clears up. -
Its the nlrc championship its not the series its on the British speedway site in the fixtures which show they are separate events
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