MANCHESTER (UK)
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1927 - BELLE VUE SPEEDWAY KIRKMANSHULME LANE
The greyhound track at Belle Vue stadium was the first dog track to open in England on the 24th of July 1927, a dog by the name of Mistley won Englands first dog race in front of a crowd of 1,700.
The first speedway meeting was held on a grass track on the 5th of May 1928, Sid Jackson would go on to win the event, by the 28th of July the riders were racing on a dirt track.
The following year Speedway would shift to the Hyde Road Stadium as it had the capacity to pack in more spectators.
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1929 - BELLE VUE SPEEDWAY HYDE ROAD
The Hyde Road speedway was built around an exzisting athletics and cycling track, The speedway opened on the 23rd of March 1929 and was concidered to be Englands first purpose built speedway.
Belle Vue was the only speedway in England to stay open during the war years, allthough teams racing was put on hold the riders ran for an individual British championship, those winners being 1940, 1941 and 1942 Eric Chitty 1943 Ron Clarke, 1944 Frank Vary and 1945 Bill Kitchen.
After the war teams racing returned and other speedways reopened, Hyde Road would continue to operate up until it closed in 1987 and racing would return to the Kirkmanshulme Lane venue were in 2012 it still runs today.
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1929 - BELLE VUE SPEEDWAY 23rd March 1929 |
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1930 - BELLE VUE SPEEDWAY 5th April 1930 |
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1931 - BELLE VUE SPEEDWAY 13th June 1931 |
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1931 BELLE VUE SPEEDWAY 8th August 1931 |
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1932 - BELLE VUE SPEEDWAY 26th March 1932 |
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1933 - BELLE VUE SPEEDWAY 6th May 1933 |
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1934 - BELLE VUE SPEEDWAY 30th June 1934 |
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1935 - AUSTRALIAN SOLO TEST TEAM
Aussie Speedway Memories facebook photo feature
Photographer: unknown
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1935 - BELLE VUE SPEEDWAY 16th June 1935 |
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1936 - BELLE VUE SPEEDWAY 12th September 1936 |
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1937 - BELLE VUE SPEEDWAY. 5th August 1937. |
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1937 - BELLE VUE SPEEDWAY. 21st August 1937. |
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1938 - BELLE VUE SPEEDWAY. 27th August 1938. |
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1939 - BELLE VUE SPEEDWAY. 23rd August 1939. |
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1939 - BELLE VUE SPEEDWAY. 29th May 1939. |
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1940 - BELLE VUE SPEEDWAY. 23rd March 1940. |
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1941 - BELLE VUE SPEEDWAY. April 1941. |
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1941 - BELLE VUE SPEEDWAY
1941 - War time speedway action with Frank Varey leading Jack Parker and Wally Lloyd. Photo: unknown.
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1942 - BELLE VUE SPEEDWAY. 11th April 1942. |
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1943 - BELLE VUE SPEEDWAY. 24th April 1943. |
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1943 - BELLE VUE SPEEDWAY.
1943 - Ron Clarke British Solo Speedway Champion. Photo: unknown.
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1944 - BELLE VUE SPEEDWAY 27th May 1944 |
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1945 - BELLE VUE SPEEDWAY 31st March 1945 |
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1953 - BELLE VUE SPEEDWAY.
1953 - Crack Solo riders from Belle Vue Louis Lawson Ron Johnston Ronnie Moore Sune Karlsson. Photographer: unknown.
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1961 > 1965 - BELLE VUE SPEEDWAY. England v Russia.
Photographer: unknown.
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1970 - BOOCOCK BROTHERS.
7th May 1970 |
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2002 - VINTAGE SPEEDWAY MAGAZINE REPORTED
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