Parkneuk Sports Stadium was a greyhound racing and speedway track on Milton Street,

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History

The track was situated west of Milton Street and built in 1949, on the site of the Parkneuk Colliery pit numbers 1 and 2. It also went by the name of The Stadium and the Lanarkshire Speedway and Sports Stadium. The greyhound racing was independent (unaffiliated to a governing body) and opened on 15 October 1949. In March 1950 the Speedway Control Board granted a licence for the Motherwell Eagles speedway team, despite the licence initially being refused. The stadium was designed with speedway in mind; the bends wide enough for six cars side by sideBamford, R & Jarvis J.(2001). ''Homes of British Speedway''. The speedway supporters club numbered 6,000. The stadium (in terms of greyhound racing) competed for many years with another independent greyhound track called the

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at the bottom of Airbles Road. Greyhound racing ended in 1972 and the site today consists of the Daisy Park Community Centre and Our Lady of Good Aid Cathedral Primary School.

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