Greenford Park Trotting Track

Greenford Park Trotting Track was a trotting track, motorcycle speedway and short-lived greyhound racing track in Greenford, London Borough of Ealing, West London.[1]

Greenford Park Trotting Track
LocationGreenford, London Borough of Ealing, west London
Coordinates51°32′27″N 0°21′19″W
Opened1919
Closed1935

Trotting track

The site of the trotting track was on modern day Jeymer Drive, south of Birkbeck Avenue and was opened in 1919 by the London Trotting Club.[2][3][4] Charles Sabini who was portrayed in the hit series Peaky Blinders was associated with the track.[5] Sabini and the mob violence at the trotting track were described in detail by Ted Greeno.[6] It closed in 1935.

Motorcycle speedway

The track was a pioneer venue for Speedway with a first meeting on 7 April 1928.[7] The very large dirt track also hosted Sidecar speedway and it was known in speedway circles as the Greenford Driving Park, with the entrances on Birkbeck Avenue.[8] It also hosted speedway meetings in 1931.[9]

Greyhound Racing

The greyhound racing first appeared on 31 October 1927 during the very early years of greyhound racing but racing had ceased in 1928. The track was a short lived independent (unaffiliated to a governing body). The racing took place on a smaller track inside the trotting track.[10]

References
  1. "Greenford Greyhound Stadium". Greyhound Derby.com.
  2. "OS County Series, Middlesex 1935". old-maps.co.uk.
  3. "Greenford Trotting Track 1930". Britain from Above.
  4. "Horse Trotting in Greenford". The London Picture Archive.
  5. "The real Peaky Blinders story". Birmingham Mail.
  6. Greeno, Edward (1960). War on the Underworld. London: John Long. p. 22.
  7. "Birth of Greenford Speedway/Dirt Track 1928". London Motorcycle Museum.
  8. "Greenford Speedway". Greyhound Derby.com.
  9. "Greenford Speedway". Uxbridge & W. Drayton Gazette. 28 August 1931. Retrieved 4 August 2023 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  10. Barnes, Julia (1988). Daily Mirror Greyhound Fact File. Ringpress Books. p. 418. ISBN 0-948955-15-5.
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