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2 hours ago, RailwayRowdy said:

Also home to Crewe Kings Speedway where I was first introduced to the sport in ‘72. Monday nights (except when Vale were playing) would never have been the same without the smell of ethanol and face full of shale ! Parka’s with the hood didn’t half come in handy on that 1st/2nd turn ! 

what about sun street hanley, thousands used to go ethstoke-speedway-team-1961.jpg.18109e85c0faf988d942e15525ec4e28.jpganol and helen shapiro!

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3 hours ago, geoff1 said:

found this photo of the greyhound stadium very ramshackle stadium, now the care home0_greyhound-old.thumb.png.3303d71e4d8dfbf5053872e191597878.png

I used to work for Provincial Racing, ( the fore runner of bet365).  We used to run a book at Cobridge greyhounds. One year our Auditors decided they wanted to observe the operation up there, so I made the necessary arrangments with "our man" who ran it.  Off the auditor went, comes to me the next morning carrying a bag of cash. The dosy b####r had only left it in the Auditors car at the end of the night!  " Good security you've got" says our Auditor sarcastically. Oops.

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As a St Joseph’s old boy (about 20% of the boys came from Crewe), my finest sporting moment came at Cobridge when I won the school 800m in 1976 (when I was 12). I went off too fast but just about got over the line before the chasing pack caught me.

And I used to go to see the Crewe Kings speedway too on a Monday night, that was a real assault on the senses! Sadly the team only lasted six seasons (1969-1975 I think) but the track was very fast and dangerous. Later used for stock cars but now gone, just like Cobridge.

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On 27/02/2020 at 13:03, Loggerheads Sage said:

I used to work for Provincial Racing, ( the fore runner of bet365).  We used to run a book at Cobridge greyhounds. One year our Auditors decided they wanted to observe the operation up there, so I made the necessary arrangments with "our man" who ran it.  Off the auditor went, comes to me the next morning carrying a bag of cash. The dosy b####r had only left it in the Auditors car at the end of the night!  " Good security you've got" says our Auditor sarcastically. Oops.

Dave Halliday,Paul Rolnik,Big Alan Glover(RIP).

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