Photographs indicate that February 19, 1928, the day when many thousands witnessed Britain’s first major ‘dirt-track’ race meeting at High Beech in Epping Forest, was a bright, sunny day.
In later years, marking the anniversary on the weekend closest to that date may have kept the faith, but sadly not the weather. For some years the World Speedway Riders’ Association (WSRA) has organised a gathering to celebrate the anniversary of the meeting that soon turned into speedway, but a new pragmatic approach has seen the date changed to March with the event being a whole weekend dedicated to track racing.
The venue remains the same, the National Speedway Museum within the zoo at Paradise Park in Broxbourne, Herts. The ploy certainly worked this
