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Following a practice session the track staged its first meeting on October 13th at which Oliver Langton won the Golden Helmet, the venue managed to fit in four more meeting during that year the last being at, to us, the very late date of December the 26th when George Wigfield was the victor in the Golden Gauntlet.
The promoting company Leeds Stadium Limited staged meetings during 1929 before placing themselves in voluntary liquidation at the end of that season, however despite this the creditors decided to cut their losses and run the stadium the following year, calling themselves by the slightly amended name of Leeds Stadium (1930). It was during this year that the track fell victim to the first fatal accident when in July John Hastings sustained injuries on the track from which he died.
1931 and a team was entered in the Northern League and achieved second place, runners up to the winners Belle Vue – once these league fixtures were complete it is rumoured that the management decided to run un-
The next year legality returned and the track ran with an Open Licence, the last meeting of that year being held on the 13th August when Alec Hill won the Golden Gauntlet and the track was then closed for five years.
June 6th 1938 and the promoter Arthur Westwood re-
The venue was used for dumping rubbish following the end of hostilities and then bought by Leeds United Football Club and today the site has training pitches on part of the original area the rest forming part of the Industrial Estate.
Our thanks to John Javis for allowing us to use information from his book ‘Homes of British Speedway’ and to John Somerville for the images.