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LAST EVER MEETING PROGRAMME
LAST EVER MEETING PROGRAMME
Photo: RON HUNT
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Item #: 30491
THIS PROGRAMME ALREADY APPEARS ON THE SITE UNDER ANOTHER HEADING BUT I'VE ONLY JUST REALISED THAT THIS WAS IN FACT THE PROGRAMME FOR THE LAST EVER SPEEDWAY MEETING IN WIGAN AT THE POOLSTOCK STADIUM. BETWEEN WIGAN WARRIORS AND BRADFORD PANTHERS. WIGAN WON 52-20. WITH LEGENDARY RIDER JACK WINSTANLEY WINNING THE LAST RACE.

Comment by: Owd viewer on 1st May 2018 at 18:56

My dad was on duty as he was with St Johns ambulance,he would take me I'm sure we got a stick of Wigan rock when you went in

Comment by: RON HUNT on 1st May 2018 at 19:05

Owd Viewer, yes sticks of rock were given to the kids Have you still got it<g>. or any of the programmes?

Comment by: Jarvo on 1st May 2018 at 19:10

Brilliant stuff.

Comment by: Philip Gormley. on 1st May 2018 at 20:29

Ron.
Photos show the Poolstock meetings to have been well-attended, but if dwindling attendances for the 1960 meetings had been foreseen, then perhaps programmes for those meetings had also become fewer; making the programme shown here to be more of a rarity.
Have you seen the colour photo of Jack Winstanley's Wigan racing jacket, on 'Defunct Speedway Tracks'? - it's in a terrible state.

Comment by: RON HUNT on 2nd May 2018 at 09:45

Yes Philip Ive seen it There was a Wigan Panthers racing leather on Ebay a few years ago and to my regret I didn't bid on it...

Comment by: Philip Gormley. on 2nd May 2018 at 11:21

Ron. So you hadn't bid on the racing leather, more's the pity. You might even have looked quite dashing in it, striding along through Wigan's nightlife ('it would have needed a bit of Dubbin, though').

Comment by: Owd viewer on 2nd May 2018 at 12:24

Ron after my father died in 1967 i moved and went to live with my aunty and most of my personal items including the programme was lost.

Comment by: RON HUNT on 3rd May 2018 at 20:06

I asked my grandson if he dubined his football boots. He had no idea what I was talking about. I don't know how he plays football in them, he never cleans them Just takes them off and throws then under the stairs He knows he will get a new pair when these are knackered... Not like in the old days when one pair of boots had to last you a few years until you grew out of them. I loved the smell of Dubin. and religiously always cleaned my boots and my 'Casey T Ball' when I brought them home. after playing with them. Young uns today don't know they're born <g>

Comment by: Philip Gormley. on 3rd May 2018 at 22:03

That's right, Ron, some of them aren't too-bothered. I picked up a sports bag that had been left behind ('presumably by a pupil') at a bus stop, some years ago, which contained pairs of shorts socks and football boots - I left them there. The good old 'T' ball, eh? Footballs used during my first year (1960) at Up Holland Sec' were 'very' large and spent more time in the air than on the ground. But the introduction of the 'spanking' brand-new, and smaller, orange Tom Finney balls, made our matches much more enjoyable. I remember the moment I first touched one: As I trotted on to the pitch at the start of a Games lesson, our Sportsmaster, Mr Peet, rolled one towards me, and then waited for my response. And after rolling it underfoot a few times, I 'probably' responded with something on the lines of "It's alright", but I do, also, recall moving along with it soon afterwards - soon knocked the shine off it I did. A great little day.

Comment by: felly on 15th May 2018 at 11:28

My mate Billy molyneaux was with St. John's ambulance, l went with him to a meeting,Billy who was only sixteen at the time ,attended one off the riders who had injured his town halls, l said to billy as we left, do you think it will end is career , he said no but hit,s ended mine

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