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Tommy Allott
Tommy Allott (15 May 1908 – 1 May 1975)Adam Allott , buxtonhitmen.co, retrieved 2012-02-04 was a motorcycle speedway rider who rode from the sport's earliest days in Britain until the 1950s. Career Allott was born in Denby Dale in 1908.Morgan, Tom (1947) ''The People Speedway Guide'', Odhams Press, p. 76 He rode for Barnsley (speedway), Barnsley in 1929, joining Sheffield Tigers, Sheffield in 1931 and then the West Ham Hammers in 1932, but retired after being seriously injured in a crash while racing that year at West Ham.Storey, Basil (1947) "Courage of Tommy Allott" in ''Speedway Favourites'', Sport-in-Print, p. 21Bamford, Robert (2003) ''Speedway: The Pre-War Years'', Tempus, , p. 174-5 With a metal plate in his ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denby Dale
Denby Dale is a village and civil parish in the metropolitan borough of Kirklees in West Yorkshire, England. It is 8 miles north-west of Barnsley and 10 miles south-east of Huddersfield. The village is the main village in the Denby Dale civil parish that also covers Lower Denby, Upper Denby, Upper Cumberworth, Lower Cumberworth, Skelmanthorpe, Emley, Emley Moor and Clayton West. The parish had a population of 14,982 according to the 2001 census, increasing to 16,365 at the 2011 census. The parish council gives the electorate of the village itself as 2,143. The River Dearne runs through the village; in the floods of 2007 it burst its banks on two occasions and caused damage to Springfield Mill. History First recorded as Denby Dyke. Before the Industrial Revolution the village was sparsely-populated with a small textile industry at the crossroads of the Barnsley to Shepley Lane Head and the Wakefield to Denby Dale roads. Within 25 years, factories and mills had be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
