Sloper Road Stadium

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Where City Gardens is now. Look at Ninian Park top left
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In the 1920s the Greyhound Racing Association acquired a plot of open moorland on Sloper Road opposite Ninian Park School and set about creating a purpose-built greyhound racing arena for the city.
The stadium opened to the public in 1928, officially called the Sloper Road Stadium, it was colloquially known as the Welsh White City Stadium.
In 1937, the GRA sold the venue for recreational use. Nowadays City Gardens.

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Guest Keen Sports Ground. Good social club & excellent sporting facilities, football pitches, rugby pitch, tennis courts, bowling green. Upkeep maintained by voluntary deductions from steelworkers wages.

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Going back a few years wasn’t there also a speedway track near there

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Going back a few years wasn’t there also a speedway track near there

Off Penarth Rd, street is still called Stadium Close I think.

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Stadium Close. I Google mapped it.

On the left. Not as far up as the second hand emporium

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Going back a few years wasn’t there also a speedway track near there

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