Defunct Speedway Tracks

 
 
New Brighton
Speedway
 
 
The Tower Ground New Brighton, The Wirral, Cheshire.
The Tower Ground speedway operated 1933-1935.  The complex was victorian and took it's name from a huge tower 567 feet high which was higher than the Blackpool tower.  The meetings are described as "open" so there was no team as such.  Oliver Hart took his first rides on the 1930s at the track.
 
 

 
 
 
New Brighton Tower Programme
21st May 1934
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
The above programme scans are courtesy of Andy Reid
 
 

 
 
My friend and researcher Graham Gleave has been enquiring into speedway at the Tower Ground.  The following info is as a result of Graham's diligence: -

 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 

 
New Brighton Aerial Maps
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
New Brighton Programme
 
1934
 
Courtesy of Graham Gleave
 
 
Courtesy of Graham Gleave
 
 

 
 
 
New Brighton's Tower Grounds stadium site in recent times.
 
 
 

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