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Old 26 Mar 2004, 18:59 (Ref:920380)   #51
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No, Borehamwood held races in the early '50s, before it was sold to Ford (and became the Ford Motorsport facility)
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Old 26 Mar 2004, 19:13 (Ref:920399)   #52
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No thats Boreham in Essex.held F1 races 1951-52.
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Old 26 Mar 2004, 20:06 (Ref:920460)   #53
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Apologies - its all south of Watford Gap to me
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Old 27 Mar 2004, 14:52 (Ref:921279)   #54
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Charterhall in the border region of Scotland home to early successes for jIM cLARK & jACKIE sTEWART - racing ceased 1965 Border stages rally continued up to recently - now it needs volunteers to repair the poor surface.
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Old 27 Mar 2004, 16:09 (Ref:921338)   #55
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Not for your book but for the list.
I remember going to a Scottish Championship hillclimb at the Kinkell Braes (or maybe Lade Braes) caravan park near St Andrews. No idea if its still going. can anybody confirm the name?

For the book you MUST include the Madonie. Agenda for the summer holiday, perhaps. Park the family on a beach somewhere and hire a Fiat.

Motor Sport regularly do articles circuits with then and now photos. It might be worth asking them what's coming so they don't steal your thunder. They might even commission an article or pictures from you. And if pigs fly even higher, help you with photos.
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It says on the back "Boreham Wood 1951"
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Old 30 Mar 2004, 11:37 (Ref:923859)   #57
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It says on the back "Boreham Wood 1951"
That looks like the wet F1/F2 race at Boreham,Essex in 1952.Borehamwood is a housing estate that shares a rail station with Elstree(Herts).Where is that photo from?
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Old 30 Mar 2004, 12:27 (Ref:923899)   #58
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That looks like the wet F1/F2 race at Boreham,Essex in 1952.Borehamwood is a housing estate that shares a rail station with Elstree(Herts).Where is that photo from?
It comes from a huge collection of photos I have of that period showing the Don Moore lightweight MG PA Special at various venues. I am reconstructing the car from fragments of the original. I believe the photographer was the late Guy Griffiths.
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Old 30 Mar 2004, 13:03 (Ref:923935)   #59
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Reply to D-Type's question. Kinkell Braes ceased being used in the mid 70's. I think noise was the problem.
A couple of Scottish Hillclimbs I forgot in previous posts.
Durris outside Stonehaven in Aberdeenshire and previously Britain's most northerly motorsport venue, Rumster in Caithness. Both were access roads to TV masts, very fast and dangerous. I believe both lost their track licences in the late nineties on safety grounds.
Finally High Auldgirth in Dumfriesshire was used for a few years in the early nineties. I didn't like the ditch by the side of the road and the telegraph poles. It was a farm access road.
Thinking about the USA, there were a huge number of oval board tracks in the twenties however there are Bridgehamton in NY, Riverside in California and the original Watkins Glen road course. Any US contributors care to add to this?
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Gnovolari couls you tell me what other pics you have - I'm very intersted indeed.
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Old 30 Mar 2004, 16:22 (Ref:924161)   #61
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Wow - there's some really interesting stuff here guys - keep it coming!!
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Gnovolari couls you tell me what other pics you have - I'm very intersted indeed.
About 100 pics. All b+w. They were the collection of the late Don Moore whom I have posted about elsewhere on this forum. They were given to me by Brian Lister along with various other papers of Don's relating to his lightweight MG PA which I'm re-creating using fragments of the original. Most are of the MG at various venues during the post-war years through to about 1956/7 when the car was broken up. I have some great cine too. In the search for these I tracked down the original '50 Club photographer, Roger Bowyer, still living in Cambridge. He lent me his album which contained some great pics of that era.
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Old 1 Apr 2004, 09:06 (Ref:926123)   #63
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You got any of Crystal Palace?
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Nope.
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Old 1 Apr 2004, 11:53 (Ref:926236)   #65
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would like to see more - give the pics a thread.
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would like to see more - give the pics a thread.
I will need to do some scanning. May take a while to sort out, but I'll certainly think about that.
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Old 12 Apr 2004, 19:59 (Ref:937555)   #67
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I don't drop in here too often but I had to look at this thread, being, as I am, an old circuit fanatic!

I have walked and been driven (videoing in both cases) the Ospedaletti (San Remo) circuit from the 1950s, and have also videod, while being driven around the Monsanto Park circuit outside Lisbon.

Wonderful experiences in both cases.

(Along with 2 other fanatics, I have checked out the 1912 French Grand Prix circuit based around Dieppe.)
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Old 26 Aug 2005, 12:13 (Ref:1391781)   #68
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When the book out, Sam?
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Old 26 Aug 2005, 12:58 (Ref:1391812)   #69
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Its listed in this months 'Motor Sport'Chaters ad. £34.99.If its up to the standard of Sam's Crystal Palace book it should be worth it.
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I accept Longridge doen't really cut it.....
Why not? It was a circuit, and it's definitely abandoned!
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Old 22 Sep 2005, 12:39 (Ref:1413899)   #74
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Good book - a few typos (surely Monza banking isn't 2.5m high - 25 metres?). Fanatastic photos (and only £25 on Amazon...)
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Sam's criterion was : what are the must haves in the project ?
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