mikejb

Dudley wood

Remember watching Brian Buck riding many times, main man at Sandwell Lions using the Brummies red and yellow colours, great times.

Ivor started wearing the white top in February 1962 along side Tony Eadon in thet televised best pairs meetings to differentiate between the Cradley Heath pairs the other pair was Harry and John Hart

Simple Josh rides for Poole

do you mean his grandmother

Thats a bit rich cosidering the amount of input you've put on the hundreds of pages about "Darcy Ward & the pirates" these last two weeks.

could well be South African!

Howdy folks try billy the bullet hamils favorite tv show from over in the states:- http://clantongang.com/oldwest/hauntedsaloonwebcast.html good clean fun, you brought back happy memories ,thanks mike

have a look on BSF internations speedway pages on sunday 19 july "scandal in ostrow" http://www.speedway-forum.co.uk/forums/ind...showtopic=49584

Cradley Heath were call "the Lukes"in the first year 1947 then changed the name in 1948 to "the Cubs" because of the riders were all young in 1949 they again altered the name to the "Heathens" hope this helps in any way

John rode for Cradley in 1965 meetings 10 rides 31 points 18 bonus 7 average 3.23 can't remember him that much

Dutchman Maik Groen rode for somerset rebels in 2003

It could be Phil Malpass

Hi Hazzman welcome to the OTA reurn to real speedway, so barrets only build on spedway tracks 'Cradley & Leicester' plus football pitches 'Weston super Mare'and I suppose many more, so sad

you'l like the OTA @ somerset great fun just like real speedway

kid brodie rode at wolves real name howard cole now lives in aus

Happy to say one of my greatest memories of speedway was knowing Chis at Cradley in the 60's He alway's gave his best for every team he rode for. It was sad day when I heard of his death still as a crazy 'BLOKE' on a gyroplane. got great memories. below is the report from Exeter web page. Name.......JULIAN, CHRIS. Seasons....1970/71/72/73/74/75. Others.....Newport,Mildenhall,Cradley,Bristol,Glasgow,Plymouth, St. Austell. Born on March 4th 1937 in Cornwall, Chris was to start out on the grass track scene before having a shot at second half rides at Exeter as far back as 1958 and then at Plymouth between 61-62. Following his spell at Plymouth he was to return to Cornwall, and turned out for St.Austell, where in 63 matches he totted up some 195 pts. He was also to appear for a period at Southampton before coming full time to Exeter in 1970, where he was to remain for five seasons. Between 1970-1973 he appeared in 158 meetings and scored 700 pts, (we are unable to track how he faired in 1974) and he was to announce his retirement at the end of the 74 season. However,unable to get the sport out of his system, he made a return to the County Ground for a few weeks at the start of 1975 before opting to try his hand at the Mildenhall circuit.In May of 1997, Chris was to die in a tragic accident whilst flying an "Autogyro". So sadly, the world of Speedway lost one of its most colorful riders of the past.