I find it very difficult to explain my feelings towards the pictures on this page. What was a new multi-million pound stadium 12 years ago is now nothing more than a dumping ground for the channel tunnel waste that has been excavated from below the streets of London and dumped on what I would call a sacred place for me and many other former Hackney Speedway fans. There’s nothing left from the old stadium apart from the wall that used to separate the car park behind the first bend. No tote board, even though I always thought it was a grade two listed building. The area will become the media centre for the 2012 Olympics, and will be totally unrecognisable soon. The old Tibbet & Britton building opposite is due to be knocked down, the buses that are stored their and next to the old stadium behind the pits will be moving to Canning Town, ironically to site I am currently working in Stephenson Street.
Although Hackney Speedway has gone, and will never return –please prove me wrong someone- I hope in some way the area will be remembered for what it once did, and that was entertain many thousands of people on a Friday night!
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