NORWICH BOUNDARY PARK GREYHOUND STADIUM

This site is not an official website for the track shown here and is neither approved or endorsed by the stadium. I am indebted to Richard English for helping to construct this page.

The City of Norwich has been blessed with a number of tracks throughout the years, notably at Boundary Park and Spowston Road. The Boundary Park track opened on 6th October 1932 and operated as an NGRC track.  A track at the Firs had already opened earlier that year on 30th July. By 1939 there were a further two track operating at Thorpe, opening on 17th June 1933, and the City Stadium which first held racing on 25th July 1939.

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Boundary Park was situated at 1° 16' E 52° 39' N in the Hellesdon area of the City and finally closed its gates on 1st December 1962.
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Track Records, as of 1947, are shown below together with an indication of how fast the time is in comparison to other tracks, both for currently open and defunct tracks, in the UK. Ratings are between 0 and 100, where 100 is an extremely fast time and reflects the speed of the track, tightness of the circuit and quality of greyhound visiting the tracks. I am grateful to Tony Nash for providing the data.
SPRINTS (up to 385m) STANDARD (386-549m) DISTANCE (550-699m) EXTENDED (700-999m)
Norwich Boundary Park Track Records at a snapshot in time:-
SPRINTS 280 yards Vexatious 16.19 secs Rating 2
SPRINTS 300 yards Boundary Albert 17.17 secs Rating 7
STANDARD 500 yards Rimmells Black 28.40 secs Rating 15
DISTANCE 723 yards True Pal 43.11 secs Rating 2

I am grateful to Jon Seddon for the following link to a map showing the whereabouts of the old track
http://www.old-maps.co.uk/maps.html?txtXCoord=621280&txtYCoord=311589

This section gives a comprehensive picture of the badges produced by the track throughout the ages, but only provides the briefest of glimpses of its history. For those wishing to undertake further research we can recommend a visit to

http://astore.amazon.co.uk/wwwgreyhoundd-21 where further reading can be undertaken.

If you have rare Norwich Boundary Park badges and artefacts for sale then email johnslusar@fsmail.net