Hartlepool Dog Track

Compo · **Posted:** Thu Aug 27, 2009 3:36 pm

looking at Kev-hufc avatar is that the dog track on the right of it as wasnt aware the cyril was built when that was still standing. Anyway why did that get knocked down. I only remember going there once as a kid to see this monster truck thing.

When were the races last run there as I like a bit of greyhound racing

kev_hufc · **Joined:** Mon Jun 25, 2007 12:23 am **Posts:** 514

I'm only 24 so I can't even remember any dog racing going on there.
I can remember my older cousin used to go to watch stock car racing there (at least i think it was there) but I was probably still too young for all of that too!
The first I remember of the site it was waste ground and my dad has referred to it as the old dog track a few times.

Cornelius Atweasle · **Posted:** Thu Aug 27, 2009 4:10 pm

The stock car racing was top class. Who remembers the old autotests on the promenade? Those damn cars would never crash into the sea! :laugh:

Yubep · **Joined:** Wed Jan 31, 2007 6:35 pm **Posts:** 25266

I remember going there today to buy a salad.

kev_hufc · **Joined:** Mon Jun 25, 2007 12:23 am **Posts:** 514

Yubep wrote:

I remember going there today to buy a salad.

One of those make em yourself one's? Their brill them! :laugh:

Yubep · **Joined:** Wed Jan 31, 2007 6:35 pm **Posts:** 25266

Oh aye, i stuff them to the brim :grin:

kev_hufc · **Joined:** Mon Jun 25, 2007 12:23 am **Posts:** 514

Never put the boiled egg's in, there only there to take up space! :coool:

Compo · **Posted:** Thu Aug 27, 2009 4:30 pm

found this pic of the stock cars:

Yubep · **Joined:** Wed Jan 31, 2007 6:35 pm **Posts:** 25266

kev_hufc wrote:

Never put the boiled egg's in, there only there to take up space! :coool:

I put them in me pocket :laugh:

kev_hufc · **Joined:** Mon Jun 25, 2007 12:23 am **Posts:** 514

What year is that likely to have been taken?

kev_hufc · **Joined:** Mon Jun 25, 2007 12:23 am **Posts:** 514

Yubep wrote:

I put them in me pocket :laugh:

Funny that because i put the pasta in my pocket, might opt for the egg's in the pockets next time like, a bit less mess!

Compo · **Posted:** Thu Aug 27, 2009 4:39 pm

kev_hufc wrote:

What year is that likely to have been taken?

1977 according to the site

Mr Irrelevant · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:25 pm **Posts:** 22665

Via the dog track was my favourite way of gaining admission in my youth. Choice were;

Brave the glass and clarty stuff on the Millhouse side, just about the sliding doors.
Brave the Police while climbing in at the Rink End
Climb into the dogs then over the fence into Pools.

I seem to remember that Mutley was the expert at the second option.

Frodraff · **Posted:** Thu Aug 27, 2009 7:49 pm

There was still dog racing in 1961/2 cos I had a mate Joe Flounders who's Dad had greyhounds and got me a job walking the dogs around the track before the races. Didn't West Rugby Club play there as well but I think they moved up to Brierton Lane probably 5 years later.

no6bus · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:55 pm **Posts:** 5095

there was dog racing there in the 70's

misterb2001 · **Posted:** Thu Aug 27, 2009 8:11 pm

the pub was called the greyhound wasn't it? Me dad used to take me in there before the match to play pool.

Fetish_Bob · **Posted:** Thu Aug 27, 2009 10:31 pm

Brian London fought there.

West left there in1965

There use to be a circus held on the old site prior to Morrisons being built , there was one there in 2000 ( think it was our first play off season)

Morrisons opened in 2004

BillinghamPoolie · **Posted:** Thu Aug 27, 2009 10:38 pm

Mr I wrote:

Via the dog track was my favourite way of gaining admission in my youth. Choice were;

Brave the glass and clarty stuff on the Millhouse side, just about the sliding doors.
Brave the Police while climbing in at the Rink End
Climb into the dogs then over the fence into Pools.

I seem to remember that Mutley was the expert at the second option.

I seem to remember going in where The Corner Flag is now, there was a wire fence on that corner, that had been cut back 'prisoner of war' style, that would have been mid to late sixties.

Frodraff · **Posted:** Fri Aug 28, 2009 12:32 am

chip fireball wrote:

me grandad ( johnny ridley ) used to be a bookmaker there back in the day when it drew bigger crowds than the football. john joyce and bob pailor used to stand there an all in the 70's. a lot of money changed hands there back in the days before sky sports and that.

i worked there till about 85 or 86 when i moved to london by which time it was on its last legs.

i owned a dog that ran there a few times. i tried to get 500 quid on it the first time it ran, which back then was a lot of money. think i ended up getting about half of it on and it won by half the track.

pretty sure that was the only decent bet i ever had there, it was deffo still a going concern for a good while after that but of course after the dog racing stopped it stood empty for a good few years before it was pulled down, and it was wasteland for a lot of years before morrisons built on it.

there was some characters used to get in there in the 70's and 80's i can tell you. in fact i still see a few of them out and about to this day.

When I walked the dogs round the track there was a lot of talk about how to fix a race. You didn't slip all those other dogs a Morrells pork pie did you.

Mr Ripper · **Posted:** Fri Aug 28, 2009 10:24 am

ElvisAintDead wrote:

Wasn't MUCH time between Asda being open, which it is on the photo, and Morrisons following on was there?

Probs about ten years at a guess.

Compo · **Posted:** Fri Aug 28, 2009 10:32 am

does anyone go to speedway its the one sport that I have never gotten into or ever watched. A lass I work with goes out with a Danish fella called kennet who drives for Peterbrough and is apparently very good but I wouldnt know him from Adam.

Salty · **Posted:** Fri Aug 28, 2009 12:22 pm

MadJohn wrote:

chip fireball wrote:

there was also a licensed track at the boro under the a19 flyover where the 5 a side pitches are now.

Is that the same place as the speedway track?

the amount of balls I boot over the fences there now........... sadx

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