Download or read book Homes of British Speedway written by Robert Bamford and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having arrived in Britain in the late 1920s, dirt-track racing soon established itself as an incredibly popular national sport. By the end of 1928, there were more than 50 tracks throughout Britain. Many venues were opened and run sporadically over the next seven decades, particularly during the heyday of speedway after World War II, when interest was phenomenally high. As a result, the sport has taken place at numerous locations throughout the country. Featuring more than 300 venues, this new edition is fully updated with new tracks, updated track information, and a host of new illustrations. Every track is afforded statistical information, including address, years of operation, track lengths, promoters, and club successes. The more important homes of Speedway, for example Belle Vue, Swindon, Wimbledon, and Coventry, all receive highly detailed synopsis.
Download or read book No Breaks written by Roddy McDougall and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2021-05-03 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Breaks: A Lost Season in British Speedway is a story of survival. Once the country's second most popular sport, filling Wembley Stadium for meetings, speedway now gets by on crowds numbered in the hundreds. It's been banished to industrial estates in towns like Redcar and Scunthorpe and generally forgotten by the mainstream media. And yet, going into 2020, things were looking up: several star riders were returning to race in Britain for the first time in years and a new, long-term TV contract was in place. Then the coronavirus lockdown happened, cancelling the league season and threatening the sport's very existence. Starting in September 2019, No Breaks hears from those who earn a living from speedway - the riders - and those who continue to keep it alive against the odds: the promoters and fans. Month by month, the book explores British speedway's current health - itself a reflection of wider society - while shining a much-needed light on many compelling and positive stories.
Download or read book British Sport written by Richard William Cox and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume three of a bibliography documenting all that has been written in the English language on the history of sport and physical education in Britain. It lists all secondary source material including reference works, in a classified order to meet the needs of the sports historian.
Download or read book International Sport written by Richard William Cox and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has been an explosion in the quantity of sports history literature published in recent years, making it increasingly difficult to keep abreast of developments. The annual number of publications has increased from around 250 to 1,000 a year over the last decade. This is due in part to the fact that during the late 1980s and 90s, many clubs, leagues and governing bodies of sport have celebrated their centenaries and produced histories to mark this occasion and commemorate their achievements. It is also the result of the growing popularity and realisation of the importance of sport history research within academe. This international bibliography of books, articles, conference proceedings and essays in the English language is a one-stop for the sports historian to know what is new.
Download or read book Speedway Tonight written by Anthony Brian Webb and published by Boolarong Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the early days at Davies Park grew the international sport of speedway racing in Australia, Great Britain and South America. He laid the foundations for a sport that is followed by thousands of dedicated fans. Many of the present day methods of speedway promoting and presentation can be traced back to that glorious period in 1927-1932 at Davies Park, West End, Brisbane in Queensland.
Download or read book Both Sides of the Fence written by Reg Fearman and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2014-07-07 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Reg Fearman is the man who knows all of speedway’s secrets ... and is prepared to reveal them. He has taken a unique, full-throttle, white-knuckle ride to the top as an international rider, a world-class team manager, a successful promoter and a formidable administrator. He has never ducked a confrontation, on or off the speedway track; he knows the glamorous and the murky side of a tough, fabulously exciting and sometimes cruel sport, and he spares no one's blushes ... not even his own' - John Chaplin, speedway's leading historian. 'From humble origins in London’s East End, this is the story of how Reg Fearman became a local hero with West Ham, the cockney giants of speedway, and went on to represent his country, first as a rider at the tender age of 17, and then as an international manager. A captivating mixture of sporting achievement, politics and business and social history, it also looks at how speedway was resurrected from the doldrums of the late 1950s and dragged into a new ‘Jet Age’ golden era, a time which paved the way for the heights that the sport has enjoyed in the twenty-first century as a global phenomenon.Including a plethora of untold truths, revelations and a rich treasure trove of photographs, Reg lays bare for the first time the sensational inside story of the resurrection of speedway ... warts and all!' - Dr Brian Belton, JP and author
Download or read book British Sport a Bibliography to 2000 written by Richard Cox and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume one of a bibliography documenting all that has been written in the English language on the history of sport and physical education in Britain. It lists all secondary source material including reference works, in a classified order to meet the needs of the sports historian.
Download or read book Played in Birmingham written by Steve Beauchampe and published by Played in Britain. This book was released on 2006 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Played in Birmingham is the fifth book in a groundbreaking English Heritage series celebrating Britain’s rich and diverse sporting heritage.Lavishly illustrated and adopting a completely new approach to the study of sporting and urban history, Played in Birmingham leads readers along a trail of fascinating locations and little known buildings, landscapes and waterscapes, in all corners of the city and its surrounds.Birmingham is a city founded upon hard work, enterprise and civic pride. Its stock of historic public baths includes three of the oldest operational swimming pools in Britain. In 1888 a Birmingham draper was responsible for setting up the Football League, the first in the world. Birmingham also has a proud record at grassroots level. Following on from the pioneering example set at Bournville by the Quaker brothers, George and Richard Cadbury, during the early 20th century Birmingham industrialists invested in a network of sports facilities for their employees that gave rise to the largest works football association ever known.Birmingham was the cradle of lawn tennis, in the 1860s, and the setting for the world’s first snooker championships, in 1927. Its numerous workshops have also been responsible for supplying medals, cups and trophies for generations of international competitions, plus no fewer than 200 million Acme Thunderer whistles, the first choice of referees around the world since 1884.For those who do not know the city, or perhaps dismiss it as a mere concrete jungle, Played in Birmingham also reveals a wealth of green space – parks, golf courses, cricket grounds and bowling greens – several barely more than a mile or so from the Bull Ring. Perhaps even more surprising, Birmingham’s topography is interlaced with rivers, brooks, lankes and pools, with Edgbaston Reservoir forming one of the great waterscapes of urban Britain – a magnet for anglers and sailors alike.This is a book full of delightful surprises and quirky details, many of which are little known, even within the Birmingham area. There has never been a history of the city quite like it.
Download or read book City of Sheffield written by and published by PediaPress. This book was released on with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Played in Manchester written by Simon Inglis and published by Historic England. This book was released on 2004 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Britain's sporting heritage is unrivalled. But what of sport's architectural heritage? 'Played in Manchester' is the first of a series of titles celebrating this significant, yet often overlooked, aspect of our social and cultural history.
Download or read book British Speedway Memories written by Tony McDonald and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The First Book of British Speedway written by Lawrence Higgins and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book MCN Days Speedway Nights written by Andrew Edwards and published by Grosvenor House Publishing. This book was released on 2021-10-07 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During his time as speedway reporter for MCN, Andrew Edwards travelled extensively witnessing first-hand the thrills and spills of world class speedway, meeting the top riders and hearing and reporting on stories of epic euphoric success and sometimes tragedy. Here Andrew recounts his own story from humble beginnings in provincial journalism in the West Midlands to national newspaper reporting of Grand Prix world meetings with anecdotes and characters described in his own style with a fair bit of humour along the way. How he met with some of the greatest headline makers over decades of speedway reporting becoming great friends of many along the way including legendary names like Ivan Mauger, Barry Briggs, Bruce Penhall, Peter Collins, Simon Wigg, Jason Crump and Kenny Carter. There is also the story of how Andrew experienced major changes in the publishing industry, from hot metal presses, the days when clanky ink ribbon typewriters were the latest technology and even before mobile phones were invented, right through to a new dawn of the new digital printing revolution.
Download or read book Sport Inc written by Ed Warner and published by Random House. This book was released on 2018-05-03 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why would someone pull the plug on a Premier League match? What prompts an athlete to search for sponsorship on eBay? How can the decision of a drinks brand CEO make or break an entire sport? Why would a sprinter think they can’t afford not to dope? Sport Inc. reveals the behind-the-scenes finances that drive sport - who gets rich and who gets left on the bench. Through investigations into a wide range of sports, including how football agents really work, the betting industry and corruption, esports, the NFL’s efforts to take over the world and the real cost of hosting events like the World Cup and the Olympics, the financial realities of our obsession with sport are exposed. As spectators our choices make us key players in this game of riches – it’s time to find out who’s winning and who’s losing.
Download or read book The Golden Age of Speedway written by Philip Dalling and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-03-09 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The post-war era was British speedway’s golden age. Ten million spectators passed through the turnstiles of a record number of tracks at the sport’s peak. With league gates as high as 80,000, speedway offered a colourful means of escape from the grim austerity of the times.A determinedly clean image, with no betting and rival fans mingling on the terraces, made speedway the family night out of choice. The sport thrived despite punitive taxation and Government threats to close down the speedways as a threat to industrial productivity.A three-division National League stretched from Exeter to Edinburgh and the World Championship Final attracted a capacity audience to Wembley. Test matches against Australia provided yet another international dimension.Even at the height of its popularity, speedway was a sporting edifice built on unstable foundations, which crumbled alarmingly as the 1950s dawned and Britain’s economic and social recovery brought competing attractions like television.
Download or read book British Speedway Who s who written by Peter Oakes and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Policing the 2012 London Olympics written by Gary Armstrong and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-17 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The summer Olympic Games are renowned for producing the world’s biggest single-city cultural event. While the Olympics and other sport mega-events have received growing levels of academic investigation from a variety of disciplinary approaches, relatively little is known about how such occasions are experienced directly by local host communities and publics. This ethnography examines the everyday policing of the London Borough of Newham in relation to the London 2012 Olympics. It explains how police defined, monitored, prioritized, contained and investigated ‘Olympic-related’ crime, and how ‘Olympic-related’ policing connected to the policing of Newham. The authors examine how the threat of terrorism impacted on the everyday policing of the 2012 Olympics, as well as the exaggeration of other threats to the Games – such as youth gangs – for political reasons. The book also explores local resistance to Olympic policing, and the legacy of the Games with regard to policing, local housing, demographics and social exclusion. Discussing the lessons that can be learned for the future staging of sporting mega-events, this book will appeal to scholars and students with interests in sport, policing, crime and criminology, mega-events, event management, urban studies, global studies and sociology.
