WOLLONGONG (NSW)
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1920 - WOLLONGONG MOTOR CYCLE CLUB
**************************************************************1953 - KEMBLA GRANGE TT TRACKIt was is August of 1953 that the Wollongong Motorcycle Club built the 3/4 mile dirt/gravel/grass, Kembla Grange TT Track, It appears that the track was only in use for 1953 and 1954 before noise complaints and some childish acts by a few members of the public saw it close.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------1953 - KEMBLA GRANGE TT TRACK 1st November 1953The club opened the track with its first meeting on the 1st of November 1953.
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Results: 1st November 1953
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1954 - KEMBLA GRANGE TT TRACK 7th February 1954There are no reports on this meeting. It was to be an inter club challenge with the Goulburn Motorcycle Club but they pulled out. It appears only the Wollongong Club competed.
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1954 - KEMBLA GRANGE TT TRACK 14th February 1954
On the 14th of February 1954. the track was the venue for the Wollongong Motorcycle Club verses Eastern Suburbs challenge. On arrival at the track heavy rain had covered part of the track. They held a limited meeting on part of the track. The Eastern Suburbs team won on the day.
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1954 - KEMBLA GRANGE TT TRACK 21st March 1954
The next meeting was on the 21st of March, 1954. It was the official opening of the track. Over 2,500 attended the races. There was 150 pounds prize money on offer.
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Unfortunately that appears to be the last meeting at the venue. The actions of a few spoilt it for others. Complaints came in about the noise although the area was sparsely populated. The clincher was that spectators had been desecrating the war graves by sitting and standing on them and trampling all around the graves. The council duck shoved and claimed they didnt know that there were graves there when they gave the initiol permission on council land.
(Research and Editorials by John Campbell)
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Kembla Grange War Cemetery
John Campbell recals: Two brave soldiers from my farthers battalion - 6 Machine Gun Battalion - are buried at Kembla Grange War Cemetery. Four soldiers drowned whilst rescuing the 62 crew of the Cities Service Boston at Point Bass in 1943. Two bodies were never found . As president of the 6 Machine Gun Battalion Accociation i help conduct a ceremony at that site on the 3rd Sunday each May.
There is now industry all around the cemetery and ironically the Whiterock Motocross track is/was just North of the site.
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2009 - KEMBLA GRANGE TT TRACK LOCATION
