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| Ashington Speedway |
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| Ashington's Portland Park. Big and fast but
the people of Ashington didn't turn out in sufficient numbers to keep the sport
going at Portland Park. |
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| Courtesy of Chris Adamson |
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| Ashington Arrows staged speedway at the town's
Portland Park
stadium
in 1972. They
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Only 2 meetings! People of Ashington,
shame on you for not giving the sport a chance to get established.
Your town lost out on an entertainment. |
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| Ashington v Birmingham |
| 5th April 1972 |
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| Ashington Fixtures |
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| Courtesy
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| Hey! someone tell Frankie Aufret that he
was "sensational"
once
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Ex Newcastle Co promoter, Dave Rowland says: A little
update on Ashington for those who might be interested.
With the closure of Newcastle at the end of the 1994 season, the hunt was
on to find an alternative venue. I was in touch with Ashington FC and
started discussions to bring speedway back at Portland Park. I knew the
then Chairman of the football club and we were talking a deal. On the
night that George English and myself went there, for me to measure out the
track, a certain person who had been passing on the flyover stopped in to
see what was going on as the floodlights were on.
Unfortunately, although a deal could have been concluded I then got a
phone call from the Dennis Murphy, the then leader of the council and now
the MP for Ashington, to advise us that they would not let the football
club sub-let the stadium and privately told me that they would not allow
any development as they were considering demolishing the stadium and
building a supermarket. The football club were subsequently evicted from
Portland Park and the new supermarket built.
Ironically, the main problem, if the project had got underway, was the
fact that fans could have stayed outside the stadium on the said flyover
and watched the speedway for nowt.
Happy days. |
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| Northumberland "Open" Championship
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| 17th May 1972 |
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| The following Programme scans are
courtesy of Chris Adamson. Chris is looking for his
Ashington v Birmingham programme so hopefully the site will have
both meetings covered if he ever finds it. Here below is the other
meeting involving Ashington. |
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| Ashington Programme "Penny's
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| Ashington Programme Third Time Lucky |
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| Ashington Open Scorechart |
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| More of the Scorechart |
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| Supporters Club Notes |
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| Ashington Thrillorama |
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