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Cycle track Beeches Road Recreation Ground

I can't think of where that was - maybe down by the Beeches pub somewhere, or where the flyover is now? There was certainly a lot of spare ground there once.
 
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Cycle Speedway was very popular with us kids in the district.
We had a team with a young lady manager. We worked hard digging out a track on a field but then they built prefabs on it.
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We moved about 200 yds and built another track and posed wearing surplus U.S. Army helmets.
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Many years later they built the M6 motorway over our field. I don't remember a Beeches Road recreation ground but it was a long time ago.
 
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