I used to work with Barry Briggs brother and mechanic about ten years go. I was talking to one of my business mates and reminisced about Ivan Muagers gold plated jawa .
Don't remember his Mrs being there mate, not saying she wasn't. The quality of the girls in there was awesome. Got my heart broken every week
My favourite ride was Tony Childs, I just googled him and am saddened to see that he passed away in April.
As a 10 year old watching Mauger, Sigalos, (Joe)Owen, Beaton, (Kelly) Moran; I used to sit just beneath the scoreboard with my, late, Uncle Brian. Happy days Who is the sixth rider I've forgotton?
My very earliest memories are of the speedway during this period. When I was a wee rug rat, we used to live next the the boulevard. I've strong memories of being in the house and hearing the sound of the bikes. Me old man used to go in his teens and I can recall him wheeling me in in my pram. Memories or the sounds of the bikes, brighly coloured helmets and of course that smell are vivid. Nothing takes you back somewhere like a smell!
Same here TigerRoo. Remember going to the old Hedon aerodrome track on the back of my dad's motorcycle to see the Hulls Angels in the late 1940s. Names I can remember and have their autographs are Mick Mitchell and George G. Craig. I have another autograph of Peter Dodd or is it Wood? I also have photos of Craig and a rider I think was called Shephard. I also have for some unknown reason a photo of the Belle View Aces Team from the same period and presumably one of their captain (because he is sat on the bike).
To make a trio of ex-Boulevard Riley High School lads over to my husband. "Another Hull Angels fan who followed them for the short period they were at Hedon.(48/49) I lived next to Marfleet station so very convenient to catch the train to Hedon Halt. My favourite Angels rider was Dick Shepherd(Sp?) but my favourite Speedway rider around that time was Jack Parker who was captain of the Manchester Belle View Aces and a runner-up to the World champion Tommy Price of the Wembley Lions. A perfect Saturday for me in those days was a game of School football in the morning, a City game at Boothferry Park in the afternoon, rounded off with Speedway in the evening and a supper of Fish and Chips on arriving back at Marfleet! Very happy memories indeed OLM. Incidentally my dad/grandad watched the first Speedway in Hull in the 30's. Think then they were called Hull White City."
I never watched speedway at the Boulevard, but I did go and see Eddie Kidd (A poor mans Evel Knievel)
