Crazy to think all that was in Gorton and there's not a trace of it anymore 😢sad! It was massive.

Hi Roy, I am making a retrospective video on United's 1975/76 season, and I was wondering if you could kindly grant me the use of your footage on this video. Of course, I would be happy to give you credit and a link to this video in the description. Hope this will be okay with you, please let me know. :)

Brilliant videos Roy! I'll make sure they're shared far and wide 😄

Very over the top to focus on George Best who was there for a very short time. I hope the other episodes do justice to a great club.

Great. Thank you

We win 3-2 I think. It would be 5 years before I went to my first game. March 1980 1-0 home win. My uncle took me. We sat in the wooden stand at the Cheadle end. It was a night match. I was 7 and a whole three quarters 😁

Had my wedding reception in the suite at the top of the restaurant on 5th August 2005 at you were our official photographer for the day Roy Nichol.

He played 3 games then moved to America. There is a 2 part dvd full history I think they still have it in the club shop

County v Swansea (1975?) With George Best playing for County. First game I ever went to.

Edgeley Park as it was when I started going. Nice footage. Thanks.

Nice to see a little bit of Kings Hall Christmas Circus. There is so little archive footage around. It was always a spectacular show. No footage ever appears of Pepino's Miniature Circus. I worked at both as a lad.

I was an aces fan from early 70's, never knew paul tyrer rode for the stars, very unorthodox riding style because of his height must have been 6ft at least but a totally fearles rider never backed out of big lick pass right up to the fence, i remember him arriving at any saturday evening meeting in his jaguar daimler, his long dark hair mullet hairstyle with at least two beautiful blonde women in his company , yeah a great rider to watch and support,thanks for those memories paul

Wow. I had a big photo on hardboard of a lions head. Full face no bars, taken inside the enclosure at Belle Vue. Loved the place.

does anyone know what was on redgate lane Belle vue back in 1970’s.

I was there!

So so sad.. Made my wages at this track. Took me 20 years but the final 4 years I made it pay. But plenty of times before walking home skint. Always packed on a Saturday. Should never of closed.

Brilliant footage. My first trip to Old Trafford was the first home game of that season against Sheffield United. I was 15. We stuffed them 5 -1. I could hardly speak on the way home on the coach. Happy days!

I lived on kirky lane across from station-approach fireworks almost every night had a dancehall beer garden every amusement ride under the sun the zoo and animals very well cared for there were two huge car parks across from zoo filled every night all the day trip buses it was a goldmine and across the street the dog track saw a lot of stars at the big hall l couldn’t believe that they had closed it down and razed it to the ground it had everything

Glad but sad! The black and white images make me feel so old. As I child I recall asking for or anticipating BELLE VUE visits. The sights and the sounds were magic to us as children, the animals we would never have seen otherwise. Looking back at the different "natural habitat" zoo's I have visited since there is a sadness to what was considered normal at the time and the stark environments in which animals were displayed or survived. Even the little people boxing makes me feel sad that there was a little bit of a Ripley's believe it or not! aspect to BELLE VUE I never saw as a child.

Absolute unique content thanks for sharing

What year did this close?

This footage is like my mother used to tell me about, she lived on grey mare lane, her maiden name was rogers , saturday night at belle vue the dancing or the circus and she was a big peter craven fan watching the aces,i went on to watch peter collins and ivan mauger,the whole belle vue set up was really special to those that remember.

R.I.P The Tiger.

God bless our captain Wilkie x

Cool thanks for the link Roy it's mad to see it like this after only seeing it derelict.

Very sad but in saying that we have a lot of great memories to look back on..

That film was shown on Talking Pictures (Freeview channel 82) several years ago

Alan Wilkinson great rider for the aces 😮

I first saw this clip on aces on video from years ago which I still have.

Lovely what a wonderful place and a lovely piece of nostalgia a bit like battersea fun fair in London sadly all gone love the speedway in that film lòok at the crowds fantastic

Speedway is still very much alive and well.

Those bikes were single cylinder (probably JAP (J.A Prestwich of Tottenham), engines, 500cc, running on alcohol with no brakes, Happy Days!

Love it old action from that era life long speedway fan great footage

These guys were the real deal .

Love the commentary

Hi Roy Have you got any footage of me from 1977 ?? Eastbourne or Wimbledon?

The place was a Health & Safety nightmare...... but we all loved it.

this track was and still is legendary

Come on now the peel company,time to bring something back like this to manchester,looked awesome,any videos on the fighting,bare knuckle ,,the history of this place is nearly forgotten to the youth of today

Love it! I was a Rye House and White City fan in ‘77, so that ended well for me! Seeing Les Collins and Michael Lee going at it in this video was fantastic. Two rising stars at the time. Michaels progress each year was immense and we all knew he was going to be World Champion, even as he came through at Boston. I absolutely love these days of speedway. ‘76 to ‘80, unforgettable, larger than life days.

I was in the Stretford End (in front of which Stewart Houston headed the only goal of the game).

Thanks Roy for replying my ancestors were Dutch and they were based at Swaffham but i said in another message to football fans My father was friends with the Ipswich Town Manager Bill Mcgarry and we watched Ipswich at Bolton Bill got us seats in the stand see you later 😊

Sir Bobby Robson would be manager of Ipswich then but my father new a previous manager Bill Mcgarry as a matter of fact he used to babysit me and Mt sister we went to watch Ipswich Town v Bolton Wanderers at Bolton Bill gave us tickets to get in at half time Bolton lead 1-0 but Ipswich scored 4 in the second half John O'Rourke got an hat-trick Ipswich went up as champions of league 2 which is now the championship might happen this year ?😊

Speedway brilliant memories John Louis rode for the Dukes as well as the Witches ❤❤❤❤❤❤

Champion! Brought back lots of happy memories.

Lovely! A wonderful evocation of slower and simpler times, and how neat and tidy everyone and everyplace looked , despite people then having fewer material possessions. Did we go wrong somewhere along the line?

It was a brilliant day out. The elephant ride was joy for 4-year-old me on my first visit, about 1956. One of the keepers was an old army comrade of my Dad's from the Normandy landings all the hard and bitter way to Hamburg. I got a special ride, sitting on the elephant's neck like a mahout - with someone on the Howdah holding on to make sure I didn't fall off. But the best bit was at the end, when the kind and gentle elephant lifted me off with her trunk and put me into my Dad's arms.

Blues went on to win the Leyland Daf Cup at Wembley in May 1991 beating Tranmere Rovers 3-2. I was there.

Speedway in its golden era. In the UK the sport hasnt moved on in Poland it has an enormous following and looks far more professional?

Some great racing!! How I miss speedway at my home track (Swindon), the big crowds, top riders, and daring passing.