Transpontine

South East London blogzine - things that are happening, things that happened, things that should never have happened. New Cross, Brockley, Deptford and other beauty spots. EMAIL US: transpontineblog at gmail.com Transpontine: 'on the other (i.e. the south) side of the bridges over the Thames; pertaining to or like the lurid melodrama played in theatres there in the 19th century'.

Monday, June 11, 2007

Cycle Speedway New Cross, 1950s

Great bit of footage here from New Cross in the early 1950s of 'daredevil cockney kids' at an impromptu cycle speedway track. The location was a bombsite where the Wesleyan Methodist Church stood on the New Cross Road before it was destroyed in 1944.

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Monday, June 11, 2007

Cycle Speedway New Cross, 1950s

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