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Both I think. Definitely at Stoke and you can still do that now and the other half says cars could be parked along the back straight at Station Road because he remembers the lights flashing if a Long Eaton rider won. I wish I could recall these things but obviously my brain only stores up really useful information.

Oh dear! Have you tried looking at something like this to see if any of them jog your memory? http://www.booking.com/searchresults.html?...3;city=-2591777 Was it definitely a hotel or bed/breakfast? There are loads on Cathedral Road which is within walking distance of the stadium.

That's got me a little bit worried because we have got a new postman at the moment who is apparently getting the houses mixed up and putting post through the wrong letterboxes. Knowing how the tickets were delivered last year with the envelope open and looking like some sort of rubbishy advert, to anyone who didn't know differently, I hope mine gets to the right place.

How sad. R.I.P. Vladimir.

Excuse me for being old, but I've never heard of her.

Rye House. Sun 29th........ Sheffield Premier League....... Home 2pm. Followed by Scunthorpe Conference League Home 4pm.

Speedway Museum? Go on try it. It's a bit like the page numbers on Pro-Boards - they are there but getting them before they disappear is quite an art.

About 10.45/11pm. Tickets are not normally sent out until a couple of weeks before the G.P. If they haven't arrived by the 27th of June start worrying.

I've only just watched the G.P. after my NTL box decided it was going to pack in on Saturday night and following some of the comments on the forum I was expecting it to be boring. It must be me because I thought the racing was okay and most of it very good. Could have been worse - you could have told them to watch the league match on Monday. Now that was boring!

I really don't know how you can all remember your first meeting, let alone the first race ever seen. It makes me feel positively senile as my memory is terrible. All I can remember is the year - 1949 - so that will have to do. I was 8 years old and went to Blackbird Road with my dad. He eventually stopped going but I carried on and I'm still enjoying my speedway now as much as I did way back then.

I believe I'm right in saying that Kiwi, who is a member of the forum, is Bob's son.....or is there a New Zealander called Bob Andrew? I'll shut up now before I dig a deeper hole for myself 'cos I get confused with similar names.

Is his wife still alive? I guess between them the family would have some very interesting tales to tell. Martin was never really very keen on speedway though was he?

I should think so. Just send him a PM on here or give him a call on the telephone number he's given. I'm going right off you. No, actually go ahead. I'd be really interested in an interview with Charles.

Sounds like you can order individual back copies so just pick the ones you want and you have a choice of how to pay. All Tony is saying is that it's cheaper to subscribe so you get 6 issues for £16, not that you have to subscribe. Are you not paying attention H.G?! ...

Just as I thought - a few minutes away from my house and I don't know where it is. Looks nice but I think I'll stick with the Travel Lodge prices.

What's the Marriott like? Food/furnishings etc. I can't think which one it is now as there are so many different big hotels etc. around Leicester. I'm sure it used to be called something else and changed it's name. Is it near the M1/M69...or on second thoughts that's probably The Hilton? Glad you had a good time. I could have nipped up and looked through the windows. Nice photos by the way Steve.

Must have been at least 8,000 I would have thought. Felt like it anyway! Regarding the attendance of 20,000, hasn't the terracing been altered since the Hull double header? The main grandstand has I'm sure been extended in both directions so there is less space on the terraces now and it's certainly not possible to see very much in certain areas underneath the grandstand on the 4th bend reducing the number of people able to stand there. In view of this it's quite possible there were 20,000 in the stadium back then. I think Mr Heaver said about a year ago that the limit nowadays is something like 12,196 or some other strange figure.

Thanks. That's two correct guesses so perhaps there is still hope that my brain hasn't completely died off yet.

I seem to remember being at this meeting as well so perhaps the double header involved Leicester? No chance of me recalling anything else I'm afraid except I know the place was packed out and I wouldn't be surprised if there was 20,000 there.

Oh dear. I was hoping Norbold wouldn't come across this thread and see my pathetic attempts at getting my brain to work.

I know who I was thinking about now and at least the first name was Ron. There was an English Ron Johnston and an Australian Ron Johnston. Now go and tell me I've got that wrong as well because knowing what my memory is like I won't be surprised.

In that case I give up and won't try any longer to join in adult conversation. Don't worry you haven't lost it - it's me who's going senile.

Glad to hear that. Perhaps I'm thinking of Ron Howe the Australian one.

Not too sure about Ron How and George Major. It's a shame Norbold is on holiday at the moment as he is the forum historian and would know.

Somewhere down south and not far from Rye House, so that would be in Essex then I think. Or even Hertfordshire now I've checked. http://www.pwpark.com/ No mention of the speedway musem.