Aerial view of Victoria Park/Racecourse/railway sheds/Blaketown lagoon

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Date Created31st December 2023Comments
Val Shaw
Who owns it?

Christine M. Mincher
Pity it doesn't look like this now?????

Raymond Swift
Used to have a wee festival called great taste of greymouth there late 90s early 2000 ended because it clashed with omoto races I gather it was fantastic

Charlie Ogston
Duncan Browne Great shot.

Trish Rennie
Shame it hasn’t been converted to an all round sports ground for the athletes of Greymouth

Felicity B Clark
Funny we hear nothing about mawhera

Sue McCallum
Flamming shame as Industries fair along with trots brought alot of out siders in guess land owners got too bloody greedy

Peter Leversedge
Make a good track for sprintcar racing ?

Clare Pierson
How many race tracks on the West Coast still have race meetings and how often?

Ron McCann
Bloody waste

Irene Perks
Should never lost the track. Greed won out

Alan Beck
The racing even was Night Trots, 1963. It was a show venue for Tex Morton, supposedly hypnotising our people, and a sword swallower, gulp.

Steven Shrives
What a waste used to be the best day out with family

John Coffey
It was at Victoria Park that West Coast beat Great Britain rugby league team 17-8 on a very wet day in 1946. It was a midweek match and few people had cars in those days so sensible to use it instead of Wingham Park. That was the biggest losing margin suffered by the Lions on their entire tour of Australia and NZ.

Lisa Clarke
Would have been awesome.. what a waste

Peter Spence
In the 60's - Jaycee's manned the bar on race days - we became experts at pulling beers.

David Waterworth
was a great track for the horses brought a lot of money in to greymouth just land owners greed

David Waterworth
its just a waste of good land it was a great track for the horses. it bought a lot of money in to the town.land owners greed.

Leonie Jennings
Now it’s a terrible disgrace and a shame it’s been neglected .

Sandra Rooney
Shame we lost it.

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Aerial view of Victoria Park/Racecourse/railway sheds/Blaketown lagoon

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