Poole Pirates
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Poole Pirates are a motorcycle speedway team based in Poole, England, competing in the SGB Championship. The club have been the League Champions of Great Britain on ten occasions.
Two Poole Speedway programmes from 1948 and 1962 on display at Poole Museum
Bill Holden was part of the Poole team that experienced a golden era during the 1950s
Pete Smith scored 3,287 points for the club
Poole (Gooddy) racing at Oxford in 1974
Poole Stadium
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Poole Stadium is a speedway and former greyhound racing venue located in the town centre of Poole, Dorset in England. The stadium is owned by the Borough of Poole. It was built in the early 1930s in a
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…in 1947 to stage speedway racing in the town and the council approved their request on 6 January 1948. The home ground of the Poole Pirates would be Poole Stadium, which had been used primarily by Poole Town F.C. up to that point. The cycle track around the football pitch was replaced by a speedway track in…
The stadium's glass fronted grandstand and speedway track
The east grandstand