Barrow Park Road Stadium

Barrow Park Road Stadium
Location	Park Road, Barrow-in-Furness
Coordinates	54°09'12.8"N 3°13'14.4"W
Opened	1977
Closed	1993

Barrow Park Road Stadium was a greyhound racing and speedway stadium in Park Road, Barrow-in-Furness.

Opening

Local businessman Cliff Hindle built a new stadium at Park Road, which opened halfway through the 1977 season for a short series of speedway open meetings. In 1978 a team was entered under the name Furness Flyers, but finished bottom of the National League. Crowds were poor and the speedway track closed after only one season.^[1]

Greyhound racing

Independent (unaffiliated to a governing body) greyhound racing took place at the Park Road Stadium from 24 April 1987 until March 1991. The owner was Chris Roynon and racing was held every Tuesday and Friday. The hare system was an 'Inside Sumner' and the race distances were 250, 415 and 595 metres. There was car parking for 500 vehicles, a bar and mobile snack bar.^[2]

Closure

In 1993 the stadium was demolished to make way for a candle factory.^[3]

References

↑ "OS Plan partial 1984". old-maps.co.uk.
↑ Barnes, Julia (1988). Daily Mirror Greyhound Fact File. Ringpress Books. p. 274. ISBN 0-948955-15-5.
↑ "Barrow Park Road". Defunct Speedway Tracks.

English greyhound tracks

Licensed Tracks

Birmingham (Hall Green) Birmingham (Kings Heath) Birmingham (old Perry Barr) Birmingham (Perry Barr) Blackburn Blackpool (Squires Gate) Blackpool (St Annes) Bolton Bournemouth Bradford (City Stadium) Bradford (Greenfield) Brighton & Hove Bristol (Eastville) Bristol (Knowle) Burnley Cambridge Canterbury Castleford (Whitwood) Chesterton Clacton Coventry (Brandon) Coventry (Lythalls) Cradley Heath Crayford Crayford and Bexleyheath Derby Doncaster (Sprotbrough) Doncaster (Stainforth) Exeter Gateshead Gloucester and Cheltenham Halifax Harlow Henlow Hull (Boulevard) Hull (Old Craven Park) Hull (New Craven Park) Huntingdon Ipswich Kinsley Leeds (Elland Road) Leeds (Fullerton Park) Leeds (Parkside) Leicester Liverpool (Breck Park) Liverpool (Seaforth) Liverpool (Stanley) Liverpool (White City) London (Brixton) London (Catford) London (Charlton) London (Clapton) London (Dagenham) London (Hackney) London (Harringay) London (Hendon) London (New Cross) London (Park Royal) London (Perry Hill) London (Stamford Bridge) London (Walthamstow) London (Wandsworth) London (Watford) London (Wembley) London (West Ham) London (White City) London (Wimbledon) Long Eaton Maidstone Manchester (Audenshaw) Manchester (Belle Vue) Manchester (White City) Mansfield Middlesbrough Mildenhall Milton Keynes Newcastle (Brough Park) Newcastle (Gosforth) Newcastle (White City) Norton Canes Norwich (Boundary Park) Norwich (City Stadium) Nottingham (Colwick) Nottingham (White City) Oldham Oxford Pelaw Grange Peterborough Plymouth (Pennycross) Poole Portsmouth (Copnor) Portsmouth (Tipner) Preston Ramsgate Rayleigh Weir Reading (Bennet Road) Reading (Oxford Road) Rochdale Rochester Romford Rye House Salford (Albion) Sheffield (Darnall) Sheffield (Owlerton) Sittingbourne Slough Southampton Southend South Shields Spennymoor Staines Stanley Stockport (Hazel Grove) Stoke (Cobridge) Sunderland Swaffham Swindon Tamworth Towcester Wakefield Warrington Willenhall Wisbech Wolverhampton (Monmore) Yarmouth

Unlicensed Tracks (Independent / flapping)

Ashington Askern Aycliffe Barrow (Craven Park) Barrow (Park Road) Bedford (Cardington Road) Boston (Shodfriars Lane) Braintree (Cressing Road) Durham Easington Exeter Goldthorpe (Highgate) London (Crooked Billet) London (old Dagenham) Mansfield Woodhouse Newhall (Oversetts Road) Norwich (The Firs) Norwich (Thorpe) Nottingham (Olympic) Plymouth (Beacon Park) Romford (old) Southend (Kursaal) Swindon (North Wroughton) Taunton (County Ground) Wansbeck Wheatley Hill Yarmouth (old)

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