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Speedway Song

Posted: Sun Dec 27, 2009 5:55 am
by Jackienock
Sorry if this topic has appeared before.

Does anyone remember the Cradley Heath Speedway song?

I know it started off with something like, "Come and see the Speedway, come to Cradley Heath".

Another line went, "Swinging round the corner comes jolly Alan Hunt, he is very pleased to find that he is in the front"

Alan Hunt ws one of the early riders and was with Cradley from about 1947 to 1950, he later went on to ride for Birmingham.
He was sadly killed on the track in South Africa.

I wasn't exactly a speedway fan but I do remember people singing the song. The track was at the back of the place where I worked and in the lunch hour we often used to go and watch the riders practicing, from the top of 'Scotsman's Hill' close by the track.

Jackienock

Re: Speedway Song

Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 8:38 pm
by linell
Thanks for your memories on CH Speedway Jackienock, all I remember is the noise of the bikes screaming round, but then I am a woman :lol: Is Scotsman's Hill still there does anyone know, or has it been built on :?: Linell.