customhouseregular

My earliest recollection of Jim Heard was seeing him win the Easter Trophy at Rayleigh, in 1963 I think but I may have the year wrong.

In which London Borough can I find Southampton?

Mind you TWK, I saw some great meetings at Wimbledon and the two tracks could not have been more different.

I was at Hyde Road for all of Briggo's BLRC victories and great meetings they were, but for me it had to be Custom House

I once promoted a match between the Speedway Riders X1 and a Doug Insole Select. From memory it was at Wanstead Flats but I could be wrong. If I remember correctly the riders played with 12 men in the second half but still lost...10-0 I think.

Oh to be young and single, have money in my pocket and be able to watch racing at West Ham, Wimbledon and Hackney, all in the same week. Was life great for me in the mid/late 60's?...You bet it was.

Best...West Ham doing the treble in 1965 Bjorn Knutsson winning the World Championship in 1965 Stan Stevens holding off Barry Briggs for 4 laps at Custom House Worst...The Lokeren Tragedy Dave wills' fatal crash at Custom House Tadeusz Teodorowicz's ultimately fatal crash at Custom House

I may have mis-read but i believe I saw on the FIM News site that Eurosport are covering.

If I see you in YO31 I shall give you a wave. Is not "pop-up" what happens when you go in to a brothel?.

Barry Briggs Sverre Harrfeldt Christer Lofqvist Bruce Penhall Kenny Carter Mike Broadbank Peter Collins Anders Michanek

Only slightly less dangerous than racing ice speedway.

Nice day trip...I must check Ryanair's flight schedules.

Erudite?...is that some sort of adhesive?. Younger readers will not understand that

I'll probably be eating my words come late October but I don't see Tai and Greg finishing in the top 2.

It's a pity we never met and got talking Norbold. We would have got on famously.

Absolutely spot on about changing London's East End. In their younger days my grandparents lived on the Isle Of Dogs. Total poverty and a desperate struggle to get off the Island, but nevertheless a strong close-knit community. Look at Docklands now...a soul-less monument to greed and avarice.

Looking forward to reading this. Always my favourite meeting back in the 60's/70's.

Nice to see and read the Telegraph piece but they have got their facts wrong. Dave was born in 1938 and the first World Final post 1038 was in 1948. The last World Final was in 1994. Even if Dave started commentating at age 10 he could not have commentated on 50 World Finals. Apart from that it was a very respectful tribute to a great speedway character. Sorry...post 1938.

I will always associate Dave Lanning with West Ham, the main man at Custom House in the 60's. RIP Dave.

So do I

Very many thanks. I wish I still had that photo.

Thanks for that BL65. All my Rye House programmes are long gone and trying to remember things I saw as a 12-15 year old is a task. As an aside and maybe something you could confirm. I mentioned to Len Silver (1968 I think) having seen him ride at Rye House. He told me he never rode there but I'm sure i had a black and white photo of him taken at Rye, with him wearing the Red Devil body colour. This would have been taken some time between 1960-1964.

He was a regular at the time I was watching.

Not even me and normally I would not have a word said against him.

I used to buy MCN every week in the early/mid 60's. It always had good speedway coverage...no idea what it's like now. Not arf!.