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Newcastle
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It is my intention on this page to show a
programme cover, a badge and maybe a bit of information from every year that Newcastle
have operated from 1929 to "now". I will need the help of a collector out
there so don't go away. It has also been suggested to me that the page
could show a list of Newcastle riders for each year. I think that may
prove difficult unless there are fans out there with collections who want to
share the information they have with the rest of us. If you can, then
please email me and we can see what we can achieve.
John
Most of the programmes on this page have been
provided by Keith Dyer without whose help I wouldn't even had started.
Long time supporter and member of the track staff,
Richard Nicholson has sent scans of his metal lapel badge collection. I have put
them in year order with the programmes. Thank you Richard, they look
great. We do not have scans of badges from
1930, 1948 and 1950 so if you can help with this please email me
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Before I go on with my programmes and
badges. I would like to enlist more collectors to help me fill up
this page. Please email me to get in touch. You can email me
here: -
John
I have been sent scans of two Newcastle badges
by my Scottish friend: Wattie Dunlop. He doesn't know what year
they are from and neither do I. See the badges below and we still
need scans of badges from
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| 1929 English Dirt Track League |
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| Newcastle Brough were in the 1929 English Dirt Track League.
The campaign does not appear to have been successful as the promoters
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This is Brough Parks first ever programme.
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| Thanks to Harry Huntly's son for sight of the
above programme. Dad Harry, from Chester le Street also rode in the 1929
season at both Brough Park and Gosforth |
| The meeting was promoted by Newcastle Motor
Racing Ltd. The track was opened by the Lord Mayor, Capt., Arthur Lambert JP MC.
Details deciphered from the above programme are as follows: - |
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Junior Match Race for the
Sunderland shield. Four Sunderland riders took part, won
by Gordon Byers 97.00 seconds. Yes, Gordon won the first
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3 Heats: England V Scotland (Four
Lancashire riders v four Edinburgh riders) they were Frank Varey (Manchester) Ginger Lees
(Burnley) A Franklyn (Manchester) Frank Charles (Burnley) George McKensie
(Edinburgh) Eric Burnett (Edinburgh) Sam Reid (Edinburgh) Drew McQueen
(Edinburgh)
Heat 1 Was won by Frank Varey (mounted on a Scott) second:
Ginger Lees.
Heat 2 Arthur Franklyn from Drew McQueen 90.5 seconds
Final England v Scotland Frank Varey, Ginger Lees, Arthur Franklyn and Drew
McQueen. Won by Drew McQueen from Frank Varey in a time of 93.1 seconds. |
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Match Race Andy Milne (Edinburgh) v Walter Creasor
(Middlesbrough) won by Walter Creasor 94.2 seconds. |
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Special International Match Race Sprouts Elder (USA) v Drew
McQueen (Scotland) won by Sprouts Elder in 91 seconds. |
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Golden Helmet (4 heats and a final)
Heat 1 won by Walter Creasor.
Heat 2 won by Arthur Franklyn.
Heat 3 won by Sprouts Elder.
Heat 4
won by Frank Varey. These 4 riders went forward to the Golden Helmet final
Golden Helmet Final Won by American Sprouts Elder |
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1930 Brough/Gosforth
Open Meetings
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| The promoters pulled out of the English Dirt Track League and ran
open meetings in early 1930 until Brough Park's last programme on 4th
July 1930 sportingly advertising a meeting at rival company Gosforth
Super Speedway. The Brough Park management would have been happy
to show the advert as this programme was from the last meeting at Brough Park for a number of years! |
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Brough Park Was Closed Between
1931 &
1937
Gosforth Lost Forever
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| I have no idea why Brough Park had no speedway action between 1931
and 1937. By this time the defunct track at Whitley Bay was only a fading memory and
Gosforth too closed in 1931. The fans had to wait until Johnnie
Hoskins came to the north east's rescue. New Zealander Johnnie had a
speedway pedigree second to none going back to 1923 in Australia and he brought the
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1938 National League Division 2
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| George Pepper was the individual star of the match with Norman Hargreaves,
Maurice Stobbart and Kid Curtis also scoring well for the "Red and White"
Diamonds. I would like to feature a colour photo of the team or a single
rider in red and white. Do any colour photographs exist?
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| I like the idea of a free car park (above right) However in 1938 the majority of
our fans probably did not have a car and the car park may not have been very
big. We were involved in the English Speedway Trophy. During 1938 a
Canadian rider George Pepper emerged as the crowd's favourite. |
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| 1939 National League Division 2 |
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I was sent the blurry photograph (above right) and was told the
badge dates from 1939. Then Brian Williams sent me his
photograph of his dad's badge (above left), also said to be from
1939. Brian's message follows:- Hi
just to let you have a picture of my dads badge from pre war 1939
hope it help you Brian Williams.
John says: My thanks to
both badge's owners for sending the images to me. Can anyone
shed any light on the matter
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| Courtesy of Brian Williams |
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| Brian Williams has been in touch again, he
says: That's the information I received but my father always said he got
it when his brother in law took him to see the speedway can remember him
saying at the time mostly single guys racing think one had a nick name
the farmer? He was 19 at the time 1939 there is a similar badge but have
two loops for year plates this one has only one |
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John says: Thanks to Brian the website now has
another badge, see above. The "farmer" nickname refers to local
rider Alec "Farmer" Grant. Farmer rode for us 1946-1948 but he is
reported to have riding in 1939 so Brian's dad's memory is probably spot
on. If you have anything to add to this topic please email me
John
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| Newcastle were sitting pretty on top of The National League Division
2 when we had to close down due to the onset of World War 2 |
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Brough Park Was Closed Between
September
1939
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May 1945
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1945 No League Competition
Open Meetings Only |
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| Newcastle's pre war promoter John S Hoskins lost no time in running
speedway at Brough Park again. 1945 was too soon after the war for
Newcastle to recommence league racing, so Johnnie ran a number of open
meetings during 1945. Newcastle would run in The Northern League
from 1946. |
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| Event 21 of the above programme, The Junior Scratch Race shows Will
Nicholl. I believe Will or Bill was a local man whom had a serious
crash the following year and sadly lost his life. |
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| 1946 Northern League |
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| The above left badge was sent by Richard
Nicholson, it is the genuine 1946 article. The above right badge
is a modern day reissue from 2002 sent to me by Wattie Dunlop |
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| In post war Britain speedway got off to a great
start with entertainment starve fans turning out in their thousands to support their local teams.
The 1946 programme was a plain affair, maybe coloured productions were held back
by post war austerity? Jeff Lloyd was the star on this night with a
maximum from four rides. |
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| 1947 National League Division 2 |
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| 1948 National League Division 2 |
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| 1948 League Table |
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Bristol Bulldogs |
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Birmingham Brummies |
32 |
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Middlesbrough Bears |
32 |
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Sheffield Tigers |
32 |
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Norwich Stars |
32 |
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Glasgow White City Tigers |
32 |
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Newcastle Diamonds |
32 |
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Fleetwood Flyers |
32 |
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Edinburgh Monarchs |
32 |
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| 1948 Top 5 Riders (League Only) |
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Fred Tuck |
Bristol Bulldogs |
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Frank Hodgson |
Middlesbrough Bears |
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Graham Warren |
Birmingham Brummies |
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Wilf Plant |
Middlesbrough Bears/Fleetwood
Flyers |
9.24 |
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Jack Hunt |
Newcastle Diamonds |
9.22 |
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| Jack Hunt was also known as John Hunt or Johnny Hunt and an average
of over 9 points a match which is great in any league |
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| 1949 National League Division 2 |
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| This Badge and Programme are from 1949. The year that the team
were known as "The Newcastle Magpies". No Magpie on the race
jackets though! The team turned out with a large "N" in black on a white
background. |
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| 1950 National League Division 2 |
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Badge from Colin Greenwell
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| 1951 National League Division 2 |
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Brough Park Was Closed Between
1952 &
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| 1961 Provincial League |
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speedway fans. Many existing fans had waited 9 years for the
return of the sport. Lots of 1960s fans were seeing speedway for
the first time, myself included. The badge shown above is probably
the best remembered badge as many collectors added year bars to the 1961
badge. |
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| 1962 Provincial League |
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| In the days of 13 heat matches the scoreline likely to send most
home supporters away happy was 40-38 especially against Middlesbrough! |
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| 1963 Provincial League |
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| Season 1963 and another last heat decider against "local" team
Edinburgh. Scoring 12+2 in the unfamiliar number 6 berth was Ivan
Mauger. We were impressed by Ivan even then, but how many of us in
1963 could have forecast just how good he would become? |
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1964 Provincial League |
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| 1964 and another last heat decider 40-38 over Cradley Heath.
Peter Kelly top scored with a 12 point maximum. Ivan got 11 points and
then defended his silver sash match race over Heathen Ivor Brown.
The Diamonds had a great season and were crowned Provincial League
champions. |
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| 1965 British League |
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| The two leagues, National and Provincial amalgamated into the
"British League" from 1965. Newcastle fans were wondering how star
man Ivan Mauger would go against the best the new league had to
offer. Well he did well despite suffering injuries. He missed some
matches and rode in others whilst not fully fit. |
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| Brian Brett was brought into the side as cover
for the injured Ivan Mauger |
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| 1966 British League |
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| Ivan led the way to victory with his customary 12 point maximum.
A rare event in heat 6, a dead heat between Graham Coombes and Colin
Goody meant keeping your wits about you when completing your programme. |
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| 1967 British League |
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| Another last heat decider against one of the leagues most attractive
sides, Belle Vue. After 11 heats we were just 2 points up. Peter Kelly
and Mike Watkin managed a 4-2 in heat 12. Meaning Belle Vue needed a 5-1
to draw the match, but with Ivan and Peter storming to a 5-1 in the last
heat, the match points went to the Diamonds. |
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1968
British League
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| The cover picture is Ivan Mauger |
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| Newcastle 1968 boasted Ivan Mauger and Ole Olsen topscoring against
Glasgow and with solid scores from the rest of the Diamonds Newcastle
won this British League match. |
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1969 British League
Division 1 |
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| John says: Of all the 1960s programmes this 1969 cover was my
favourite. |
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| Ivan Mauger had moved on to ride for Belle Vue. He was
irreplaceable but in our own Ole Olsen we still had a great number 1
heat leader. The 1960s came to a close. For many of us fans the
golden era of speedway in Newcastle came to a close at the end of the
season. Promoter Mike Parker was to walk out on Newcastle taking
with him our star man Ole Olsen. |
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1970 British League
Division 1 |
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Badge from Richard Nicholson
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| So 1970, No Ivan Mauger and no Ole Olsen and no Mike Parker.
The track may have closed down but Allied Presentations took over the
promotion with Ian Hoskins the man in charge. Ian the son of 1930s
and 1940s promoter John S Hoskins had a mountain to climb. Losing
Mauger had been a blow but then Parker taking Olsen with him to
Wolverhampton was an even bigger blow. The support had dropped
away and Newcastle was in disarray. Ian Hoskins brought in Anders
Michanek a Swede who looked a very good signing and also the prospect,
Dag Lovaas from Norway. But really the problem was with the
falling crowd numbers and I believe no promotion could have done any
better than New Zealander Ian Hoskins. The writing was on the
wall. After season 1970 the promotion wanted to swap licenses with
second Division Reading but strangely this was vetoed by the landlords. How the
Greyhounds could do that is beyond my knowledge but that stopped
Newcastle joining the 1971 British League Division 2 and we closed
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Brough Park Was Closed
Between
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| 1975 New National League |
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| Newcastle came back in what was really division 2, the New National
League, making a mockery of the landlord saying no to lower tier
speedway in 1971! The lifeline was extended by Promoters Ian
Thomas and George Graham. Newcastle took over the license from
near neighbours Sunderland who had just closed down. |
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| Newcastle's team was built around the Owen brothers Tom and Joe from
Ormskirk in Lancashire. We were delighted to be able to watch the
sport again and in Tom and Joe we had substitutes for Ivan, Ole and
Anders though not world beaters, in the lower tier. I saw every
match and didn't miss the British League big guns at all. We were
supporting the National League Team well our crowds were very good. |
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| 1976 National League |
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| Promotional change George Graham was replaced by Brian Larner.
Ian Thomas and Brian took Newcastle to the heights of National League
success, the Diamonds were 1976 league champions. Our first league
success since 1964. OK we weren't tracking world champions in the
second tier but we were enjoying the racing just the same or maybe more
so? |
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unknown. Can you name the year
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| 1977 National League |
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| 1978 National League |
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| Newcastle hammered poor Glasgow, 11 of the 13 heats were Newcastle
5-1s. Five Newcastle riders were paid for maximums! You will
note Newcastle rider Kenny Carter notching a paid max. Kenny went
on to be world class before ending his own life in tragic circumstances. |
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| 1979 National League |
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Newcastle's 50th Anniversary Season
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| Newcastle continued to dominate but without any local riders.
I personally was very happy that Michael Easton was occasionally in a
reserve berth. Michael lives down the road from me in Rowlands
Gill about 15 miles from Brough Park. I never met him but good
luck Mike. If you read this send me an email
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| 1980 National League |
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| Karl Fiala emailed me some time ago. Karl says Brough Park was
his favourite track. So how come you never rode for us Karl? |
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| 1981 National League |
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| Two of my favourite riders top scored in this match Aussies Rod
Hunter and Robbie Blackadder. A famous name at number 7 Ivan's son
Kym Mauger. Kym had an impossible task living up to the Mauger
name. He also rode long track and I believe he won the long track
world title in New
Zealand. He did his old man proud. |
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| 1982 National League |
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| We won so many competitions in 1982 the badge makers had a field
day! These badges are from Richard Nicholson's & Wattie Dunlop's collections.
Those of us old enough to have been there in 1982 witnessed a treat
watching the Diamonds every week. |
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| Tom Owen Badge |
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| Joe Owen Badge |
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| Wattie Dunlop has sent me the above scan.
Not sure what year this badge is from so if you can help please send me
an email John |
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| The all conquering 1982 Diamonds beat Peterborough 72-24.
Diamonds match winning 18 point paid max from Keith Bloxsome was a treat
to watch. Keith was kept at reserve by Newcastle's high scoring
team. |
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| 1983 National League |
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| 1984 British League |
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| As Newcastle had won practically everything the National League had
to offer the only thing to do was elevate the team to the highest tier
of racing in the land and hope it was the right thing to do. 1984 saw
Newcastle in the very tough British League. |
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| 1984 British League
Table |
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Reading Racers |
30 |
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12 |
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Sheffield Tigers |
30 |
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King's Lynn Stars |
30 |
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Wimbledon Dons |
30 |
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Oxford Cheetahs |
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Swindon Robins |
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Wolverhampton Wolves |
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Eastbourne Eagles |
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Coventry Bees |
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Poole Pirates |
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Halifax Dukes |
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30 |
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finished rock bottom, the crowds were just not good enough and promoter
Ian Thomas lost thousands of pounds. Arguably £1000 a match.
At the end of the season Ian quit (who could blame him) and we closed
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serving Diamond, he was with us for the following seasons
1978-84, 1989-90 |
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Brough Park Closed During
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| 1986 National League |
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| 1986 The Federation Brewery came in as sponsors and our promoter,
John Turner, changed our name and logo from Diamonds to Federation
Specials. This was only the 2nd time we were not "The Diamonds"
the other year was 1949 when we were Newcastle Magpies |
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| 1987 National League |
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| Badge scans courtesy of Wattie Dunlop |
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| Another change of promoter saw Eric Stead take over. Things
didn't work out and Eric pulled the plug at the end of 1987. |
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Brough Park Was Closed Again In
1988
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| 1989 National League |
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| Speedway was back under the control of Spectake Ltd namely Barry
Wallace and Richard Bailey. |
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| 1990 National League |
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| 1991 British League Division 2 |
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| Two 1991 badges commemorating the team winning that season's Gold
Cup. One badge shows gold highlights and the other shows silver.
Badge collectors will love the silver badge as it must be rarer than a
Gold, Gold Cup Badge? I wouldn't have produced the silver badge
but hey, what do I know? |
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| Badge Scans Courtesy of Wattie Dunlop |
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| Would I be right in thinking 2 other
badges showing Blue and White helmets were issued? If you have
them please scan and email me
John |
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| 1992 British League Division 2 |
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| 1992 Newcastle Badges |
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| 1993 British League Division 2 |
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| 1994 British League Division 2 |
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Troubled Newcastle Speedway Was
Closed
Yet Again In
1995 &
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| 1997 Premier League |
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In 1997 local men George English jnr and Dave
Rowland under the name Newspeed Ltd., rescued the sport at Brough Park
and entered a team in the newly formed Premier League (the second
division by another name). The history of Newcastle Speedway is
littered with closures and reopenings. This re-opening was the
ninth time since the beginning in 1929 no less!
George jnr,
son of George English snr, now deceased, (who did quite a few things,
very well over the years, he was chairman of the clubs most successful
supporters club for one!) George jnr also had the support of his
mother Joan English. It is common knowledge that Joan runs many
things backstage for Newspeed Ltd.
George & Dave came in at the
right time to stop the rot as they were both committed Diamonds fans
unlike the promoters before them and as it proved, they were prepared to
take the rough with the smooth and keep the Diamonds going. Unlike
uncomitted businessmen from Yorkshire or elsewhere. |
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| 1998 Premier League |
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| Newcastle's star man in 1998. Denmark's Nicki
Pedersen. Young Nicki impressed us as a future world champ.
He went on to be champion of the world 3 times under the grand prix
system. Nicki races hard and sometimes causes incidents on and off
track. Many fans boo him, but not at Newcastle, where we remember
him fondly from 1998. |
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| I remember this match, we were beaten due to
Reading bringing in Newcastle born and bred resident Paul Bentley as a
guest. Lee Richardson now deceased, top scored for the Racers.
Nicki's 13 points and Brent Werner's 12 was not backed up well and so we
lost the match. |
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| 1999 Premier League |
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| 1999 was Newcastle, Brough Park's 70th birthday,
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| Swede Robert Eriksson and Dane Jesper Olsen led
the Newcastle scorers to victory over Glasgow who had Newcastle born
Paul Bentley on 17 points. |
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| 2000 Premier League |
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| Newspeed Ltd welcomed local builder Darryl
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| 2001 Premier League |
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| Diamonds v Monarchs matches are always
attractive fixtures. This encounter shows an easy win for
Newcastle led by Jesper Olsen and backed up by Bjarne Pedersen and Kevin
Little. Newcastle ended their 2001 campaign as league champions
thanks largely to Bjarne Pedersens points. |
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| 2002 Premier League |
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| 2002 saw the 3rd Great Dane Kenneth Bjerre
hitting a maximum 15 points as Newcastle again triumphed over Glasgow. |
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| 2003 Premier League |
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| This programme shows 2 Newcastle Gems William
Lawson and Jamie Robertson in our reserve berths. Dave Rowland a
champion of junior riders was involved with our Junior side Newcastle
Gems but Dave decided to step down as a co-promoter at the end of 2003. |
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| 2004 Premier League |
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| Newcastle's 75th birthday |
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| The Bandits came raiding and carried off a 16
point win! Richard Juul racked up a career best (maybe?) score of
15 points but we were not strong enough to win the match. |
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| 2005 Premier League |
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| Barry Wallace came in as co-promoter with
George English and Darryl Illingworth. Fans:- John Skinner (me),
Mal Ridley, Keith Dyer and a few others joined up under the name "The
Diamond Geezers" to assist the struggling promotion team with matters
that the promoters did not have the time to devote. The Diamond
Geezers showed the promoters that they weren't alone in their struggle
to keep the team going and we did survive what in 2004 was looking like
another Newcastle Speedway close down! I (John Skinner) began this
website in the hope of attracting new supporters and sponsors. I
have met with dozens of people either new to the sport or fans from way
back who decided to come back to watch the Diamonds and it is still
happening now 2014. |
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| This score chart shows reserve Craig Branney
stepping up from our Junior Team "The Gems" scoring a paid 13 points.
Craig promised well but didn't stay in the sport. |
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| 2008 Premier League |
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| Jason King was involved in this match.
Jason's brother Danny King joined the Diamonds in 2014 as our number 1
rider. |
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| 2009 Premier League |
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| 2008/2009 saw Dane Kenni Larsen begin his
campaign in the UK. Kenni went on to capture the track record 61
seconds in 2010, Kenni also won the PLRC title for 2010 |
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| 2010 Premier League |
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Richard Nicolson supplied these 2010 badges, he says each
badge has a subtle difference. Nah! I cannot spot the differences Richard
apart from the bottom right having a blue circle.
Ex No1 Newcastle rider George Stancl has been granted a testimonial at Newcastle
Stadium hence the two badges at head of this section
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| A big home win for Newcastle against Glasgow. |
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| 2011 Premier League |
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| 2011 Programme Courtesy of Keith Dyer |
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| Riding at number 7 for the diamonds was Richie Worrall. Richie
a little later and much improved moved on and his twin Steve Worrall
came back in a couple of seasons later. The twins were and still
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The weakened Diamonds had to resort to using two guests and rider
replacement in their league match against Sheffield. Reserve power
was the difference, with Newcastle getting paid 24 to Sheffield's 2.
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Changes from 2011 saw Derek Sneddon and Kyle Newman move on.
Replacements were the returning Christian Henry, newcomer Ludvig
Lindgen and Steve Worrall. Newcastle finished top of the
league, but lost the title in a six team play-off.
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| We show Newcastle v Redcar 2012 and 2013
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2014. Newcastle have only race day to prepare the track, today the
water bowser broke down, leaving the track very dusty. Then the rain
came and despite expected abandonment the meeting ploughed on.
Finally things were brought to a close after heat 14 with the scores
level.
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| 25th May 2015 v Glasgow |
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2015 Newcastle were weakened by injuries. but still managed to see
off Glasgow in a last heat decider. Glasgow's reserves are of
interest, as Palovaara and Clegg feature in future Newcastle teams.
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| 2016 Premier
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2016 Future World finalist and GB number 2, Robert Lambert was a
surprise signing this year. Here he won the vital heat 15 with Steve
Worrall third to get the win over Workington by two points.
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2017 The same two riders featured in heat 15 against Workington
again. Craig Cook shows how much he likes Brough Park, he was to top
score many times in the future.
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| 2018 Premier
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| 2018 a weakened side saw just 5 Newcastle
riders take to the track that plus a disaster for Ludvig Lindgren
allowed Scunthorpe to win the match |
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| 2019
Championship
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| 2020
Championship |
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| 2020
Gold |
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| 2020 |
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2020 Silver
All 3 Badges courtesy of Wattie Dunlop |
| No programmes due to the Coronavirus Pandemic
wiping out the entire 2020 campaign |
| 2021
Championship |
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| 2022
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