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Default Old Skool North East Photos!

All photos taken by me or my dad:

Teeside Euros!





Worksop Indoor First Time Round!



Tarmac Regional?



Rawmarsh Regional:











Hull Concourse 1989!





Blyths Second Track!



Blyths First Track!



Me Randomly Getting a Trophy From Bob Carolgees



Mansfield Indoors!



Concourse Somewhere?



Christmas Meeting at Bassetlaw Buggy Club!



Regional, Dont Know Where? At the back of a pub somewhere i think:



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Default Those were the days

I remeber that meeting

Cold in that hall opposite the now Bassetlaw center!
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Is bob carol gees wearing a miniskirt?
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Amazing pics One thing that seems to stand out - the weather! Looks like the uk actually had a defined season back then.
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where was the track at blyth. is there still something thier nowadays.
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There certainly is a track at Blyth (Nottinghamshire) - Robin Hood Raceway..
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Although I am not from this area these photos are truly amazing ...I wish there were more from the West and East Mids posted up from late 80's?

It always makes me wish that more images existed from my past, not just RC...well done digging these out they have made my day
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Track behind pub could be Bedworth. We used to race off road behind the Griffin Inn Pub.
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Track behind pub could be Bedworth. We used to race off road behind the Griffin Inn Pub.

It does look vaguely familiar
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Does anyone have any photos from the off road track which used to be in Hexham at Fewsters?

Or the Longbenton club at the college?

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Great memories from all over the country James, thanks for sharing and keep em coming ;-)

Is the one behind the pub the Chesterfield venue?!

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GEC Stafford:

Omg this brings back some memories,i ran my cougar team works here great fun.
Thanks for sharing these pics Awsome.
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Great memories from all over the country James, thanks for sharing and keep em coming ;-)

Is the one behind the pub the Chesterfield venue?!

Steve.
Looks like the White Hart at Calow, just outside of Chesterfield. (Its now a car park) It's the same place some old dog and Jamie used a garage roof for ramping RC10's into the field next to the track!!!
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That sounds like it! Id've never have remembered that but think you're right yeah...
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Wow!!,that lot takes me back,proper grass circuits and a superb line up
of what was then the hottest machines of the time,Shumachers,PB's,Tamiyas,
Kyoshos,they're all there.
The gold painted Arai stickered Boomerang looks amazing.

It just shows what a great UK racing heritage was lost with the boom of TC/Saloon cars
and Nintendo's,the home computer and WHY, 1/10th off road all but collapsed except for a few
die hard racers.

Great pics me old.

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What is interesting looking at the first concourse picture is the amount of kids racing not adults, these pictures are very reminiscent of the racing scene in the North West of England from the mid 80's to 90's.

I will have to start scanning pics in!

Did the Playstation and Sega's kill the kids enthusiasm or is it the cost of running a competitive car today that results in more adults racing than under 16's?


ITS ALSO JUST STRUCK ME THAT NOEL EDMOND'S AND HIS BAD TASTE JUMPERS HAVE A LOT TO ANSWER FOR!!


Just an observation.
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Some great photos there James.... seeing those line-ups of Cats, Optimas & Tamiyas really brings the memories flooding back. P.S; here's another photo I've got on P-Bucket from Worksop;



This must have been an indoor BRCA meeting sometime in the mid-late 90s.... think thats Mr Evdoka leaning on the wall down the straight?

P.S; Not sure if the cost of racing is any more expensive now - if anything with LiPo batteries & brushless motors costs could be less??
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I remember the Euro's at Teesside... I'm think Gemma has a few pics from then.
The big banked corner I remember Ray and a few other spending all week building it
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Scary i know most of these
Adam & Ben are in there.
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