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DaytonaChris:
Hi everyone.
I know this is an old thread, but I’m hoping the people who have posted on it are still active - or perhaps with this post being bumped to the top it may get new views from people in the area.

A local charity called Tyneside Outdoors are doing a Lottery Heritage Funded project on the old BMX track at Temple Park South Shields.

As it has alot of overgrowth and trees that have grown over the past 20-30years.

I’ve been helping them myself doing the work which is basically just heavy gardening work.

I used to use the track around 1990-1995 as a young lad as I lived nearby.
The track is very narrow nowadays and more mud than the loose stone surface that I remember it having back then.

Not only are Tyneside Outdoors doing physical work on the track to try and restore it to it’s former glory as best as possible, they’re looking at the heritage history side of it too.
So if anyone has any photos/history information or perhaps even just good old memories it would be great to let them know.

For example I always remember me and my mates would enter the track from the right hand side and exit the left hand side going in an anti clockwise direction.
But maybe it was used in both directions?

I’ve uploaded some videos to Youtube of a cycle around it I done in December 2018, if you search youtube for Temple park bmx, they should come up.

Check out Tyneside Outdoors Facebook page and also the page they setup on Facebook for the project called Temple Park BMX Dirt Track.

Thankyou

Jono:
Richie greenhalgh does an old school bmx ride every may bank holiday weekend, great weekend out

Jono:
Oops, only 10 years too late to reply

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