Picture the scene: Britain. 1928.
Industrial decline. Poverty. Slum
housing. Hard graft at the local steel
works, factory or coal face. Social
immobility. Class war. TB. No NHS.
And the promise of an early grave
—and then this comes along.
Speedway was once THE great
escape and carried an entire nation
with it. West Ham. Rye House.
Wembley. Newcastle. Edinburgh.
Swindon. Poole. Norwich. A local
hero in every town.