August 11, 2008 @ 6:56 pm
Save Our Stow in the news
With Walthamstow Dogs scheduled to hold its last race on Saturday 16th August, the fight to save the stadium from the bulldozer has received extensive press and TV coverage. Consortiums who want to continue racing at The Stow have put in bids to buy or lease the track from the housing developers who have no planning permission and in the current climate are likely to leave the track to rot for years.
The fight continues with a march from the stadium to the town hall this Saturday. A message from the Save Our Stow team:
Please join us at the track before 12pm on Saturday 16 August 2008 for a march to the Town Hall in Walthamstow.
There is a real chance of winning this if we all pull together. Please promote this march as much as possible and as quickly as possible using all means available.
You can get more news from the Save Our Stow blog or by joining the Facebook group.
The Guardian has run several stories on the proposed closure, including the superb short film below, and the story of the effort to save it here.
BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s hour went to visit Lorraine Sams, trainer of the Greyhound of the Year, Spiridon Louis. Visit the page here or click here to listen again.
Meanwhile ITV’s London Tonight interviewed two employees of Walthamstow Stadium set to lose their jobs. After 64 years working at the track 94 year old Madge Goward and fellow worker Joyce Middleton (84) will be familiar to anyone who’s ever had a flutter at the Dogs. They both reminisce and try to imagine what they’ll do when housing developers bulldoze 75 years of history to build flats. Teddy Sheringham also gives his backing to the “Save Our Stow” campaign.
Viewers of BBC News wrote in to the “Your News” programme highlighting the closure. The programme sent its team of fluffy presenters to Waltham Forest to host the show (below).
Betfair radio talked to the British Greyhound Racing Board about efforts to save the Stow. Listen to the MP3 here.
Finally its worth watching Ricky Holloway terrifying Sky’s Gary Newbon while rallying support for the Save Our Stow campaign.
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