by Graham | Apr 24, 2019 | Middle England - East Midlands Tracks
Aylestone Road, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE2 The city of Leicester and its surrounds have been host to a good number of greyhound racing venues. Its flagship, The Leicester Stadium which closed in 1984, had become its most established, but throughout the pioneering...
by Graham | Apr 24, 2019 | Middle England - East Midlands Tracks
Another of the Leicester’s greyhound racing venues was located just two miles north east of Leicester’s city centre. It was located east of Melton Road on land north of Belgrave Lodge, a large building clearly marked on 1930’s Ordnance Survey maps,...
by Graham | Apr 23, 2019 | Middle England - East Midlands Tracks
Oversetts Road, Newhall The small Derbyshire town of Newhall became a part of a triangle of Greyhound tracks that would operate within three miles of each other. With the Woodville track located one and a half miles southwest and Swadlincote even closer at 1. 3 miles,...
by Graham | Apr 22, 2019 | Middle England - East Midlands Tracks
Lindum Sports Ground, Lincoln LN2 Lindum Sports Ground became another of Lincoln’s Greyhound Racing venue’s that would operate under a temporary license organised by the Lincoln Ball Hare Promotions. Lindum Sports Ground still exists today and is found...
by Graham | Apr 22, 2019 | Middle England - East Midlands Tracks
The Leicestershire village of Stoke Golding becomes the next topic of venues to stage Greyhound Racing. Stoke Golding lies three miles north of Hinckley, and it is here on the 19th of April 1930 that the sport first took place. Little is known regarding on how it...
by Graham | Apr 22, 2019 | Middle England - East Midlands Tracks
Wragby, Lincolnshire Another temporary track to discuss is the one at East Barkwith, near Wragby in Lincolnshire. No doubt the county was blessed with these type of sporting venues, springing up then disappearing within a matter of months. Yet it is known that...
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