NE Regional Venues
 

Putting together a google map showing clubs & venues that been kind enough to host outdoor & indoor regionals in the NE since I started racing in 1993.

Any prior to that either post here or Pm's please and I'll add them as & when time permits

see them here

so far I have but not all on the map yet

Teesside
Batley
Harrogate
York
NERCR (Durham)
Darlington
Gateshead
Scarborough (McCain Food Factory???)
Worksop (the new Blyth :D;)) now Robin Hood Raceway
Aire Valley (near Leeds/Bradford Airport)
Bury (Metro???)

We did an indoor regional at Patley Bridge a about 5 years ago. Can't remember the actual location, other than it was in a school just outside Patley.

Thank you

I was at that event

which club was it?

this one looks familiar

Nidderdale High School & Community College co-ordinates


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It was the Patley Bridge Club, sadly no longer running. I used to race with them when I first started 10 years ago. They ran in a tiny little hall, probably less than half of what we pit in at York. It used to be quality racing there on a Tuesday night. Rich Newbold, Andy Mitton and a few others used to run it.

Yeah, that's the place. It was good meeting that.

tried an email to http://www.brandlingcommunitycentre.org.uk/carclub.html but it came back as NATA :cry:

anyone remember Gatehead outdoor venue?

Hi Glen.
Gateshead used Bill Quay community farm.
Did Peterlee club hold a regional

Cheers Dave

Peterlee I don't think so

Which school did Gateshead use for big indoor meetings and were they regionals. One event had a wall of death.

Map updated :D

but more to do ;)

closed venue's are a pushpin

gateshead thomas headburn school

Thomas Hepburn?? Gateshead school??

I was beat but i am right!!

Chevy

did they have an indoor regional there?

remember anything about Peterlee?

I've pm'd Alan C to see if he knows

peterlee no regional i think thay tried for one

I also think Peterlee struck out as far as Regionals were concerned, but they had many a good mud bath race on many a green field or park :lol:

i remember one at hull

also macain sports ground at scarborough

Glenn didnt Durham Club hold some indoor regionals at the school in belmont ? The one that had pitting in the gallery above one end of the hall. I can remember Colin Blades' Mother running the Tuck Shop selling Westler Burgers, Space raiders Crisps.................
Also i can remember two Outdoor regionals at the Cocken Lodge track, one was cancelled as it was flooded and i can remember getting towed out of the field and i can remember another one in the sunshine shortly before the track closed down.
Good Memory lane thread this:thumbsup:

Hull pre 93 and in NE region??

map updated

Macain Sports Ground @ Scarborough, which club ran meetings there?

You can still see the concrete bank corner. Remember trying to get up there with blue full spikes on with 2wd.

:o don't know what inspired me or even make me want to map it



Belmont School

bAD or Chevy may recall about indoors

club did run a regional on the grass outdoors at school at least once, I helped put the track together

They also had a patch of land at Belmont near a football field that was on a bank side. Used for the interteam event @ least twice I think

Cocken Lodge

the track with the clay bolders on the straight to the left of the rostrum just after it opened

Dave aka Wally Walton

what happened up Hexham way? Was that just TTBA meetings

Durham ran events Lambton Park, near Chester-le-Street.
Two and or Three day meets.
Were regionals held there?

Hexham was just a TTBA meeting and the track closed when Fewsters sold the land but if you go passed now it's still there just well over grown

im sure it was york who ran scarborough, or somthing to do with Dereck Bradby

sure it was cougar cougar 2 era

RAF Elvington
I think I raced there twice.

Egress/Super Astute time.

Sheffield: Very close to Hillsborough, I think it was around the Clay Mills lane area

Rotherham: Behind the Waverley arms pub: Just off the A631 between it and the M1

Rawmarsh Leisure Centre: Cougar 2000, Kyosho Pro X, Steve West era.

adam that was under rotherham buggy club then!!!

posted this in other thread

Where they the ones held near to prudhoe when there was some sort of car or steam engine rally on ? I seem to remember racing up there then.
Sure there are other places that we have forgotton too !!!
Anyone got any photos ? I found some from the Reedy race in 98, they are in my hauler bag so have a look at Jarrow on sunday if you want glenn.
Jimmi......

Lambton Park didn't get to the 1st one when there were some Yuasa cells going cheap.

car or steam engine rally
are you getting mixed up with Preston Park?
TRCC used to be there for the Fire Engine Rally and another event whose name has slipped me by @ the mo.

Reedy race in 98
found some pics on www a while back now but have seen no others

Jarrow
would need binoulars to see them as I can't make it:mad:

Race there more than twice when I was a budding Barry Sheene :lol:

Jimmi

thanks to our fellow o0pler's from Germany we have a link to the event

http://www.christian-keil.com/a02-re...ace980522.html

Seem to remember your XX4 having an argument with the catch fencing on the straigth. The car came of worse :o

i think the club at the mcaine factory was something to do with p + s hobbies as they also used to run an indoor winter series at the spa on the front at scarborugh and around that time york had a track behind a school at stockton on the forest and batley had a track at the back of the hare and hounds pub in west ardsley middle to late eighties

modified rough riders and kyosho scorpions were the cars to have

hare hounds pub in west ardsley craig dreshers local track where he first started as he lived in osset 4 miles away

!!!!

There used to be a club just off york road in leeds (near great clothes) which ran a big meeting every year. I cant remember what the meeting was though.

Anyone else remember this?

just been looking at the goole maps in your sig..is the rc club at scarborough still there ?

Don't think so, but you can still see the concrete that was part of it

Thats a shame as it would have been the closest track to me now..:(

How about the darlington one?

yorks closer its just the route is a drag :bored: