usually was with him so great home stadium the stars andthe snow on the lane look good to slow and me to list all this a lot because. it's also want to go every week has been goingraise probably regular. it is the best and it has the most from london the country and the dish is one of the mostenjoyable tracks to live when i was about eleven eleven to twelveand i took to it even at that tender i
live there's no one like in the world the crowdnoise the reaction of the social scene of an even number of a wonderfulnight. it's a wonderful atmosphere that you sentsimply nothing like it was simply the best you can imagine greyhound racing in london without will and it is sad. you know why. something could have been done to have keptit going on.
time for the base and everybody be upset focus on it for three years to raise a lot of money for charity not on a regular basis. we often would raise fifteen thousand pounds. it was a track to the biggest crowds of any of the stadiums in the u.k. this is the best one in the well this is thebest track in the it's not.
it is the number one in this country and it'sseen if you toss same guys in any business if your top tier dollars then you know fora lot of trouble and i've been one greyhound trackless in london. if you want to thank those if you like medon't go six but it's not like trying to get speed on the caliber of the phone but if you'relike my father that if your flight was the star it was almost certainly the most successful. i'm base growing and stadium in the world. it was to flagship for dr rice and in thiscountry. it was to with the star what the only fulltime is to paris mess entertainment used to
mean. soon the most don't. so was in dry hen ricing not anymore. what made more from start dogs such a fantasticnight out and the reason why celebrities flock to have their photos taken there is that ithad a great atmosphere. when the races were run the misfit was electric. you don't get that call and of electricitywould have video going to a. the study should have been celebrating theseventy fifth anniversary this year. the following reason for a knees up and abit of publicity.
in the i'll die used the charm to find mewho have run the stadium since the opening no into thirty three would not have missedthe opportunity. but granted rice and is not what it once wasin the made known to you folks used to dubs clocked up something like fifty million attendancesand there were seven to seven license tracks. lol she only three million attended the thirtytracks that remain the first now in a coffin was legal always betting in annoying to thesixties up to that point the only way to make it legal. but was to go to a trike. at first when it was made legal.
i would imagine. wholly restricted. then came late no one open as of bookmakersdirect competition with the stadium finally impressed worst of all there was the abolitionof the general basing duty in two thousand and one. general basic juicy text of course came cleannever a ploy to the bookmakers the text was abolished because british bookies said theywere being driven out of business bond into the game lose good places but on their homecomputer without having to play the tax the government swiftly to save the bookies butdime used to doctorates since there was no
benefit to actually go into the stadiums manyof the hippy punk to stop coming attendance was dropped greyhound racing was at its peakof popularity during the war time error and in terms of the marketing of the sport andthe pay all around the sport. it really hasn't evolved very much. since then and i think perception that it'sman coming down with applying the better and it's just not like the reality is that yousee generations of families you see young people out nights out there with them. so even at the nightclub attached to a childa chance which helped even more say attract a younger audience and you'd see dozens anddozens of people going to the greyhounds.
as a bit of a warm up to a guy going to theclub on an on a night out. i think the people that run it haven't keptup with modern times they need to for the good old days and development never move withthe twenty first century cannot fall of any out of play nice place on these free not tome not myself and i play in concentrating on i don't know i don't know much about ricein stock car racing. there's a sunday market though there are severalthings that i used to done. which they stopped doing because i alwaysthought everyone would always comes away from stuffbut you can't but you can't afford to be complacent. so there's no marketing there's no t.v. advertisementclose.
yes coverage they were never really my facility. if someone came in to rescue not need me nowfor a call for entertainment. should we say they never bother to go downthere make a big fuss of the corp write them back. so when you're doing that. you know you just got no chance of gettingthat return business. that's what's wrong that if greyhound racingis efforts to hold the decline in growing popularity it needs to introduce itself toa whole new generation who even aware of it all or have a complete misconception aboutthe reality of the sport and there's very
few sports where you can get so close to thetrack and soak up the atmosphere it's very accessible from a cost point of view you knowhow many places can you go out and for a tenner have something to eat something to drink placea few bets i mean it's cheaper than going to the cinema what we could see is punters ourselves asit's hypnotic once you've got through the door. you've seen it as a night out any preconceptionsthat you may have had a completely shattered and your real famine in africa and what wedid with all right and same just fifty sixty people all of a sudden these fifty sixty peoplestarted inviting their friends and clients
and telling everyone about it. i took my mom and that there for a night out. i mean they would have never gone to the grammari sing. had i not invited them and once they wentthere they loved it and they went back again and again and again. in may two thousand and six the joiners andthose at the stadium had been sold to probably be available as the announcement call wasamongst great hand enthusiasm. one called recall a white put together a royalbid for the sort but it isn't a great time to build houses and i think hopefully thiswill make them rethink again.
we need housing in the area book you knowi don't want to see how using at the expense of everything else not. as you move to buildings going on every time despite wantto now this would be nice just to keep as a rising price of a new bicycle and what we'resaying is you come under pressure and for a whole combination of pressures you've justgiven up on this and actually there are lots of things you could do to change that placearound. it's a community facility why do we get ridof another community vicinity. just for morehouse and we can do plenty ofplaces here where we can
do we really need another housing estate andto sell it to people going to have some sort of building some sort of massive state when people can'tsell houses anyway at the moment just the tendencies in the last three four weeks because you've got people saying oh i'm goingto go before it never been that before. it's a triple that the what i can say seethis place is just like a casino. it's my to print money he's a money makingthing anyone that knows anything about stock price and especially if you've got a placelike this if you can't make money in the something bad to get them wrong.
the ones that coming. now i don't want to jump in on the bandwagonbecause the price is closing. it's sad for the genuine pump to live in right. i come over. why he gets in plenty permission should bequite difficult since much of the so it has been listed a great suitable english heritagethe local council has scheduled a lane suitable for public assembly and leisure. in theory the developers should have quitea problem getting permission.
another london stadium kind of food is undevelopedfive years of the last dog rice was run and there's nothing you can do to stop private. selling their assets and that's not the root problem of the council night theycould do something using planning paul they can't you can't stop the actual site. i think it was wrong. in the states of course when that was doneand that was about three years ago. i think the people home. it's that this would be something that wouldstop the stadium they redevelop four or five
times single industrial use chancing is likelyto be i guess but of course it has worked. at the end of the day the listing. isn't going to stop the stadium being soldand they redevelop to me my mean that big city get preserved but that's as far as it'sgoing to go and you know when you've got a place like this that's been there seventyfive years and you know you talk to people from outside walthamstow you know he talksand you know not met before. where do you come from and you say walthamstowand the number of papering recognizable from style because of the great insight it wasactually a huge number.
lots of loss of pay for bain there. i mean just in the last few weeks since itwas announced that it was going to close. i mean i find letters from all over the country. it's all part of that heritage. we're losing our traditions very easily and it's one of those things that we wantto try and keep time rather than times and down. was almost everybody who talks about the startuse of the word or clinic.
sooner or later that really. there is want to spread agreement that inthese her achievement was want to list elements of the stadium to make it extremely difficultto prove that i was there i was going to look very strange if couturegot straightly stripes but if you don't develop as it were to build us and people are willingto buy then it will happen and how it kills we use in years ahead. not to show off a startling design as theyare connected as. it's quite unique hash i'm standing artistsand one place that part's the trouble because
of whatever whatever might happen the feature. they say to start campaigning to help marchesand organize a petition campaign is included local m.p. neil general it can phone a conservative partyleader. ian duncan smith both cry and i don't is intheir time mr duncan smith has a veto on a grand jury or a dog that ran at the track. almost a sign so i'm paid to grade two listedwas being announced the local council was talking to developers about building housesthere. i draw of planning brief was even producedgiven a test that i'm not to have spilled
in. nor we do the military get rid of one facilityhere for the council is in a good position to talk to the hasn't been fed up as londoncourtroom. it knows them very well and in queue tookover the last number of kind of so has it in the area cloyd logs lead author walthamforest council was not prepared to appear on his documentary to support the council'spoint of view i presume since he could also have also charges of money but the chargesthat the star had been forced to have far more stuff than any other stadium as a resultof unusual interpretations of health and safety regulations locally.
no doubt the cancel and sit in good faithplanning officers were told that the stadium could not survive because it was unprofitableit was impossible for them to check since talks were secret be so it's everyone knewthe chargers were experts when it came to running growing and stadiums. how could they be wrong or allow tracks thathave disappeared in the london area include catford hiring guy like me and didn't strikefor the west ham in what city. you can still visit him. didn't i may even see the old dog there. they built to bring cross shopping centeron the site.
what worries me is that what will happen isthat it will sit there and see for course some won't because you know even just thelast few weeks. you know the housing market looks to be initaly and you just wonder whether the developer is going to be really keen to build housesjust at this moment or even the next next year or so now there's another great truck. shot down the line than five years ago catfordcatford was shut down and and since we're going to be built on the the side not bricksfeel like it. five years later hasn't a lot of activitythat say that attack in south africa has been pretty much demolished but not a lot of buildingactivity that another site wouldn't before
some sites like that would it and i've beendown for a couple of years. i sense of that the housing association peoplea lot of quadrants are involved with walthamstow alpha not going to see this mark capturedyou know that in four five years time. if you're flying here. oh no no no no say no no we will definitelybe rebuilding definitely building but i'm just worried that with the housing marketon the pressure that it will set that all right on the front of the building is listedthe back of the new need listed on the site. so i just don't see how you can pull out thesearound without touching the front and the yeah.
doug it's all and i you know in your old. one of a handful of cookies left at a truck. i can remember the first time. ok. my grandfather. you never had casinos before you know bettingshops before so i need to take you know white from what we used to know as the on coursebetting market actual been taken away from us. if you bet on the international sleeve bettingexchanges like that.
you can do things like bets against a dogor a horse you can buy something to lose and i think the big difference because you usedto see people that he would bet big money and they used to be a lot of book like isthat there's only a handful betting time i thought my stance on the timehigh and dry time wasting is a hugely popular product with punters across the country toinvest in shops on the internet transom sells a half billion pounds as wages of course andi'm quite yet. so it's still hugely popular. that people come on a saturday night to canvassthey come out for a social night out. you can come with a far from it.
so you can have tempe on the time you canhave a drink. you know first pensioner where the cost of living bases are astronomicaland everything is going up. you know for a pound to get in and not takethe time to phrase some know it's the ban on a pound for the time you're going to getto know what the good price and that's on it now and where could you get it they shouldbe about forty fifty bookmakers here. i don't know how many actually but obviouslyleast fifty. we've got seven and
it's not an easy business now but a thousand times after the show is just about now. you don't want to provoke a show you knowsomething we started you know the part i did like about it lasttime i come i won sixty pounds some traction. and you can stand there and ice your car andyou put your price up and you don't strike up that cash talk about oh wait no we won't have it otherwise youmight take thirty or forty pounds of ice.
i don't have a thousand pound i have a thousand pounds on top. but i want to have it on the truck because that would drive up the ticket trying to comeup in a boat wait to thank all the folks get back to the fire academy to watch it run. so that i got enough money to go was ok ok ok ok thanks
to no one was consulted about the closure ofthe i wasn't i don't know the british greyhound racing board you know the thing about seasontwo. it was in their names. it was in fact put on the website for stategreyhound stadium in january of this year that they were never going to sell and theyassured quote all the trainers in assured them for the show and sees nothing was goingto happen. you know that truck was staying open thatwas it then less than six months later it sold and the most annoying thing was it soldwith out the knowledge of the industry.
i sell to social housing without even get. the opportunity for the greyhound fraternityto actually step in and buy and that there was a complete trial of greyhound racing. nobody knows which corky texas was responsiblefor the universally acclaimed as a clinic front and tugboat with its jointly owned greyhoundyears ago the dog used to have multiple lakes one off the other to give the impression thatit was running today the dog. not much of the best the stadium looks a bittatty this study and was still run by the chargers it was great children but it's onlyto say they seem to have lost a few as you guys and for the start.
and the older ones one or two weeks on theystill want to be done but honestly i mean don't they. kitchen stuff on iran and i just shine buti mean people don't come in it's going to need fear of repairs and it's got into thecipher that this site we need to disciple lift and different stuff than ever that haveto spend that money. i should imagine you have a if any want tokeep this up and i should imagine you'd have to spend at least near enough a million poundsto get up. a money grubber hands live for about twelveto fourteen years but they rarely rice much once they get processed exposed like eachday is a huge number.
we tories and many grow and spread for riceand never make the grade. not everyone is upset about the closure animalactivists have been campaigning to shut the stock down. well absolutely. i mean we're pleased when any contract closes down equally passionate aboutanimal rights yohane a bottom up. family only that they form a hate teacher who has been findinghomes for weeks on dry hands for forty three
years but she is a champion of the rightsand then used to spin every such if you know what that was. whereas before the majority will put down. now the majority found the truck the big truckslooked after the dogs. we have very strict well integrity standardsand i was saying i was cruel to dogs like kill there was a killing room in there andthings like that and i never ever to put dot dot. again in my life. some of the trainers do so.
not necessarily because they're vicious butalso because they're afraid of them hurting themselves. i mean some of these dogs are worth fifteentwenty five thousand pounds. so the trainers are very often extra careful. but coming into a kennel like this you cansee the real temperament of the dog is to say this forty eight. here they come in here they don't know any of theother dogs they just get on with them immediately. we very seldom use a muzzle he said when theywalk in them out on the fields not a
species or don't you think of all this nonsenseabout you treat you. now as a great lover. tell us why didn't you know i'll help you you know we want to do. i'm going to greyhound greyhound you forthright. i think a far better shot at the industry as a whole very sadly doesn'tlove dogs. we care for them. i tell you we really really careful you couldn'ttake my dogs you couldn't do anything to my
dogs. there are in there so well looked after youknow like a hotel where i was kept because of the dumont that that truck creates fordogs to be bred a truck from stow is responsible for the killingof over five hundred greyhounds every year. well i'm not quite sure where they get theirfigures from to be honest because it's very difficult. account for exactly how many dogs are finishingevery year and basically i can only speak for autumn style and the walthamstow dogshave thirty years now come into the system and rehab and they either kept the trainers.
if they were really really good. obviously they go start pictures or turn itto flake some of the owners take them some of the owners do actually take and sell saysa very good at this. kennel start take them home track stuff takethem. we advertise them falling house in the hopeof finding schemes. so really and truly there is no need thatall the dogs from the larger tracts to be put down. the demand created by the greyhound racingindustry causes something like twenty five floors and greyhounds a year to be bred thisis the industry in britain has a home now
only ten cry was. of those dogs actually make it to the tracksthe other fifty thousand are disposed of before they even race and very sadly most of thosedogs end up being put to death is not strictly true what is whips or suggested greyhoundbreeding to put it in perspective is carry on a pretty small scale in this country. it's in the reader's interest to get manygreyhounds that he or she breeds onto the track to do otherwise is pretty financialsuicide site. the other thing i should say it's very easyto be home with a pop pop greyhound if it's operates at twelve or fifteen months it'snot fast or also isn't interested in chasing
the hatch of rights that should be no problemat all to be home in that very hunt. unless of course it is temperamentally unsuitablefor retirement. a lot of those dogs get put to death in allof them speak was most dogs eighty percent of greyhounds that race on the tracks in britainactually come from monument a large number greyhounds that race on the shores are bredin all and all of the time greyhound racing industry if you like it has its own twentytracks of a successful track and has quite a large scale training and breeding operation. this is definitely a major problem in ourand we have no jurisdiction i volunteer we are working with government here and theyare using with us.
he's actually to to develop areas of concernand benefits and work with them as best we can be well looked after. exceptionally well looked after. i mean most of the time. misconception by the press and people justdon't understand symes animal activists they just do not understand you can't reason withthem. i think the future for looking too promising but i think that withpast twenty to twenty five tracks. if what i think right now.
rice is actually finished in this countrythat's not only a very sad for both a star and the people that work well for us and thepunters because i love it here as well it's a very sad thing to grind my seniors a wholeday off think it's going to be fizzled out when less some some miracle can manage toget everything up and running again. it may only be a few years. it's already massively smaller than the onetime. yama stadium great yarmouth in norfolk they'verecently completed a very impressive restaurant facility. the cost upwards of two million pounds i understand.
and that's really helped build their businesscrowds of uptown i was up as a very positive vibe that track stadium covered the buildinga new restaurant to increase its capacity that kins the stadium in yorkshire a smallmining village a great track facilities a new restaurant facilities reallyhelping to safeguard the future of the track and a further south a piece of a similar storyin the hundred thousand pound investment recently the tracker ratings due to close later inthe year so i'll be twenty eight and in terms of london after walthamstow closeis the only of the track in the so what you might call the london coastal areas wimbledon. with closing that really signals the end of.
the sport as a whole which is an even biggerloss. and the house price in the united at stoppingjob was. thank god there's a lot of jobs that you look atwalthamstow stadium. they're going to be four hundred jobs going. now most of them will be parts on the roleof the folks on the lots of people have parts on jobs that you know evenings trainings awayworking in the in the restroom all the time. and they're all going to lose their jobs andthey won't fall and they won't find replacement
jobs easily. you know these you know this court a lot ofeconomic consequences for the big trunk lines still going. that's on an average saturday night lookingout for foreign trips over foreign stuff. one of the security offices his grandmothersay his mother works and he says he was upset that his daughter works all the time but. i'm going back to school cleaning if i getthe jobs done style. i mean that you need the money you can't liveon the pension six the phone or the way it's operated to end up going for security.
you don't notice a few jobs around for thestadium and asking for us the security of rome for then a few other places. graham rice and cheese i mean language andvalues almost everybody in a bit is not everybody else. it is i choice community. if you're not part of it it probably doesn'tmean much to you but the first. a nation we have dogs and hairs. goes back a very long white some ancient peoplesaid that there was not i man in the moon by hair and if you look at the moon abovethe stadium.
you can see what they mean. don't grayson seems is to do as points ofbeing a fish and chips for caps in judea was by in fact i don't need to expect to aboutnineteen twelve. i was invented in america. hair cosi and with the rising has a much. i would history but the circular trike andthe mechanical hair were created by it go in pet tricks with no name. opie and or delist who wanted to stop thekilling of czech rabbits the dogs chased in america instead of his own peas inventionreached britain when the bellevue stadium
in manger is historically dry soon in theone nine hundred twenty seven walton started crime on to the scene fairly light thingsto a colorful put microcode william and george charm bill which on law was a nondrinker reservedand soul he had a poker face wore a sample rugs suit and had a reputation for takinghuge and some torrents of bizarre bits. he discovered what was good that saw him codethe billet ground they so called flapping strike where brad pitt rice into place forending the trek oh no he almost had a much he wanted for the ground. agreed the price and paid in cash and laterthat day. the man who started this
was a grandfather people i had now that helpedhim channel eight was a director of happy which type you know how did that happen withthank you kind of have a sour note of it all invalid took no notice. not yet but he did even though this find mehaving him nineteen that he thing. i hate must i got a had seven sons. i mean seven sons. dr james. big gamble
because and obviously a very strong man and he builtthis up and then when he died his son charles took out a gun and he was not managing director. i beat up my for spector that night he wasboth so stadium thirteen so he would stand no nonsense he could talk with norton like yours or youcould talk with the veterans. whichever way you want to talk we could talkwith them. but it's by the reporter so much thank you. i know very very family man
stand no nonsense from anybody and it waslaw now it is different. i directors in college now own directors don'tagree with everything. we don't some of the charter school reachor we in the charter name will continue to be associated with gaming and don't ration. thanks to victor john but victor was one ofthe book. my kids who helped create the into the basicallyindustry whose business is said to turn over more than one billion pounds. you know hundred sixty different countries.
in fact you probably could have bought thestock and kept it going major bookies call rule. les brooks and william hill. it's going to tricks and make a very goodjob of only them. so i'm hope to fix it. jonah could have been the first into thatbook to join the club. i think it's fair to say that a child hasa family there. most of each retirement age they are windingdown that interests and last year with charles a step down from his position on some of theboards.
it's a station i would advocate for tar i'mnot sure as to many young people in that family who want to come for a take on the business. phillip chancellor left a year ago to go abroadto charles charter resigns from the fiji are they. and it seems to me that there just seems tobe well some kind of plan here. what's been going on. i can't probably thing go on it i know. one thing that is not trade is the fact thatthe reason why they were stated said that they had lost money that stadium has neverlost money in seventy five years according
to companies house is that profit in it. that's what they want you know night. yeah that's not they're not nice but it'ssomething inside. i still think it's not you know it's one of those things that i want and i want to run it better thani did. that's my honest opinion. i wish i could see the charges come forward and put this on cameraor even speak to the press because you can't
get them until to get an answer out of themthere was a capacity crowd for the last no it's several of the charges were there andthey came in for some stick. growing rice in is an old business becausethe stadium is really a market so weeks try this ring master was the charm is only a stadiumbut they do not own the independent bookmakers the came to was the dogs or even a peanutconcession. they may have wanted to do it somewhere butmost of the people who run those small businesses or hobbies did not want to quit. many of them are being forced into prematuretorment. they were supposed to be fourteen rices butone family to happen to have refused to run.
there was a mechanical failure. so today i was thirteen rices and lucky forthe greyhound business at about eleven thirty to cry because it's a leave but some thoughtthat such a big occasion had to be marked in some way a few do so much to get on thetrain and walk round that a few turned into hundreds then the souvenir hunting big game. the police were called by a certain amountof damage was done it was not at all obvious contribution to the save the stud came fromi said whites and growing and rice and it is one of the clone a number of public entertainmentswhere alcohol is freely via the ball yet. he's never any trouble.
he's someone does start to get julie boisterousanother member of the crowd will soon put them in their place recolor white and richardcalled still dream of running the best stadium in the world promising a super rice with prizemoney. never before dreamt of in the sport. there was no master. sally must up and i sat looking point peopleup. i'm trying to put more people on the countyou haven't had to face me get to that i feel for you have not come yet because your sourcewill become before profit. that's not fair to tell me if you only profitso well you know what we just saw from satellite.
well before i'm going to tell you one thingi met my i will make money in the stock. i know how quick people are but i will nevershow him and i will show him how he made money. most of those who have been proven to justspend a pleasant evening in the sun the sun showing that the study will be so into placehas gone. even those who have lost a bunch of from sellingto tell him. yeah yeah. i paid the man who invented the mechanicalhand believed he was striking a blow the guy's cruelty.
he saw granny n.y.c. and it was a way to stampout the cold spoke like have colton but that was nearly one hundred years ago and mightbe in the twenty first century we have different values. if so anglers and preaching faith should havebeen to watch kept on to be excesses of the last no it's there was still that clean needto be done. my name is brought an elephant and i workedthere for thirty one years manager. lowering the ship sailed claim to full the do it becauseeverything was going to be sold. chipotle was
going to be so if you're going to be tickets a copy of the so go with it. big very said they would that go anyway don't stress busting is still themayor but with a single day lyrics i got that out and out. but i got the same.
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