by Graham | May 23, 2020 | South East England Tracks
Capel-Le-Ferne, Folkestone This advert printed in the local press dated November 24th 1934. Newspaper cuttings from 1934 unearths another short lived greyhound racing venue. It was found in the vicinity of Capel Le Ferne, a village located two miles east of Folkstone...
by Graham | Sep 1, 2019 | South East England Tracks
Grange Lane, off Botley Road, Sholing, near Southampton Sholing is a district on the eastern side of the city of Southampton in Southern England. A Greyhound Owner newspaper dated September 5th 1963, advertises greyhound racing on Grange Lane just south of Sholing....
by Graham | May 16, 2019 | South East England Tracks
T The Hampshire village of Hamble-on-Rice is situated roughly three miles south east of Southampton city centre. A cutting from a June 1953 edition of The Greyhound Owner suggests that a series of meetings were stages at Hound Corner just off Hamble Lane about a mile...
by Graham | Apr 30, 2019 | South East England Tracks
Castle Road, Salisbury It seems that the Wiltshire city of Salisbury has become the home to more than one greyhound racing venue during the sports pioneering years. This chapter describes the one known as Salisbury Stadium & Greyhound Track. It was located on the...
by Graham | Apr 26, 2019 | South East England Tracks
Salisbury The West Harnham Greyhound Track becomes the next venue to be discussed in this chapter. The suburb of West Harnham lies half a mile west of Salisbury city centre in Wiltshire, and it was just south of Netherhampton Road where the sport actually took place....
by Graham | Apr 26, 2019 | South East England Tracks
Greyhound Stadium, South Bersted, Bognor Regis The Sussex seaside resort of Bognor Regis can add itself as a town that hosted greyhound racing also, proved by an advert found in the local press during June 1933. It showed that it would take pace in the district of...
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