The first race meeting I attended was....

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I love this! rf84, you had me in tears of laughter!

We travelled to the Gamston meeting (pic below) and I remember the journey so well. Dad drove this, the company vehicle (we didn't own a car), and I sat in the back with two others, on those old folding wooden chairs.

Looking at the state of the van in the pic, it is no wonder that an MoT/Wof was introduced. The pic was taken outside the Mundella Works - the then HQ of the Tempest photography empire. Most schoolkids in the UK in the 50's would probably have had a Tempest school pic.

This was my only race meeting until Mallory Park in 1956 as apart from Silverstone, there weren't too many race tracks within travelling distance, especially if you had to rely on public transport.