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Halifax Speedway
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Thrum Hall Cricket Ground, Spring Hall Lane, Halifax,
West Yorkshire staged speedway between 1928-1930. Much later,
in 1949, Halifax was served by it's better known track
The Shay Grounds. |
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| Thrum Hall
Programme Cover |
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| Incredible action from Thrum Hall Halifax
1929 Frank Varey (Scott) leads Billy Lamont (AJS, unless you know
better?) The Scott was a two stroke so it must have made a much
different noise to the rest of the speedway machines which were 4
strokes. A 500cc two
stroke would have been very loud and in modern times it would have
brought huge claims from local residents to get the sport banned |
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| Newspaper Report |
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| Courtesy of Graham Gleave |
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| Halifax Match Reports |
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| Courtesy of Graham Gleave |
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| Thrum Hall Team |
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| Courtesy of Graham Gleave |
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| Starting Area |
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| Courtesy of Graham Gleave |
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| G Corney |
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| Courtesy of Graham Gleave |
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Thrum Hall
Cricket Ground |
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| No! This is
not a photo of a D shaped speedway track! |
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Dave Beecroft says: Hi John,
me again.
Scouring through local history websites, I came across this aerial
photograph of the Thrum Hall cricket ground (see above), which was the
home of the first Halifax Speedway. Sadly it is all no more as it was
razed to the ground along with the famous rugby league ground which was
the home of Halifax RLFC. The Blue Sox, as they are called share the new,
squared off (shame) Shay with FC Halifax Town. All for a new Asda. I
believe, although I am guessing, that the path was probably part of the
track. Also included is a picture of "Cyclone" Billy Lamont, taken at
Thrum Hall in 1930.
By the bye. Department of interesting but useless information. The
definition of the word thrum indicates the textile background of the West
Riding of Yorkshire:- (in weaving) An unwoven end of a warp thread, or a
fringe of such ends, left in the loom when the finished cloth is cut away.
All the best
Dave
John Skinner says: Thanks for the local history lesson Dave.
Now I will win Who Wants to be a Millionaire when the question "What is a
Thrum" comes up. |
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Thrum Hall
Action
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| Two very grainy pics of action at
Thrum Hall. Looks like a bad crash. I hope the early
cork crash helmet saved this guy some serious injury |
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If you have photographs programmes or badges and are able to scan them
please get in touch John
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