The John Somerville Collection

Based in Scotland The John Somerville Collection of speedway photography ...speedway photos ... speedway images , speedway pictures  by photographers Wright Wood incorporating C.F.Wallace..., Mike Patrick , Alf Weedon , Trevor Meeks , Ken Carpenter , Jarek Pabijan , Eddie Garvey , Ron MacNeill , Doug Booth , Peter Morrish , Dave Kindred , Del Holder , Mike Kilby , Graham Platten ......and many more.... is an attempt to collect and preserve the photographic history of speedway from 1928 onwards... all images on this speedway photo website have been personally scanned by myself, however , the quality of the original sources vary.......When typing into search.......don't use spaces eg......PeterCraven.........LIVE UPDATE.......remember as well as riders names you can also  search for Grasstrack .... WorldFinal ... ELRC ... BLRC ....... PLRC ...... Crash ..... IceSpeedway .... Sidecars ... Scramble ... Snappers ... Female ... Caricature ... Fight ...etc ...... or just try a team ... Eastbourne .... Ringwood .... Wembley ... Bournemouth ................ many collections don't come  with captions..and as I am pretty hopeless at captions ... John Jarvis and Glynn Shailes were of great assistance to me/us in the early days of the website .... subsequently Mick Bowman ...Bob Bowman and Steve Baker are currently doing the heavy lifting with captions....with periodic specialist caption input from .... Tracy Holmes , Graeme Frost , Mike Hunter , Brian Burford , Andrew Skeels, Martin Reynolds ....and many many more..... in the eternal quest for website caption perfection.....this is for sure appreciated by the speedway historians and collectors who always seek accuracy... so it is much appreciated by all of us ... today 08:10:24 I have added images 23301-23400 to The Wright Wood Black & White Collection ... today 12:10:24 I have added images 23401-23500 to The Wright Wood Black & White Collection .... today 24:10:24 I have added images 7701-7800 to The Trevor Meeks Big Meetings Collection ... today 28:10:24 I have loaded images 7801-7900 to The Trevor Meeks Big Meetings Collection ... today 29:10:24 I have added images 22901 to 23000 to The Eddie Garvey Digital Collection ... today 05:11:24 I have added images 4801-4900 to The Dave Kindred Collection ... today 07:11:24 I have added images 4401-4500 to The John Hipkiss Digital Collection ... today 09:11:24 I have added images 8001-8100 to the Trevor Meeks Big Meetings Collection ... today 13:11:24 I have added images 1701-1800 to The Speed-Away Promotions Collection ... today 14:11:24 I have added images 8101-8200 to The Trevor Meeks Big Meetings Collection ... today 15:11:24 I have loaded images 23001-23100 to The Eddie Garvey Digital Collection ... today 16:11:24 I have loaded images 8201-8300 to The Trevor Meeks Big Meetings Collection ... Cheers John 

 ......there are now over 250,000 images on the website ........ and it gets around 1000 hits a day .............. I hope you like the website ..................... Cheers...John Somerville

 

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