LEEDS (PARKSIDE) 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 Yorkshire city of Leeds has had 3 greyhound tracks in the past and the one on the outskirts of Leeds in Hunslet was Parkside.

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It first opened for business in 1932 and was close to both the Rugby League ground the cricket ground.
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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=430594&txtYCoord=430579

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 Leeds Parkside racecards, badges, results, information, favourite stories or artefacts then email johnslusar@fsmail.net