The Deep South

Many a visitor to Portsmouth would be familiar with the sight of the decaying yet iconic Greyhound Stadium that greets entrants to the city from its gateway at the west side of the island. The stadium, situated in Tipner, between derelict scrapyards and wasteland, was opened in 1931. One of the oldest greyhound racing tracks in the country, numbers of punters had dwindled in recent times, and the site was sold to the Tipner Regeneration Company in 2008, to be redeveloped as housing. The stadium was leased back for a short time, until it was closed for good in March 2010, to the loss of 47 jobs and 200 homeless greyhounds. The stadium stands derelict, slowly picked apart by vandals, as it surely will for years, before any actual ‘redevelopment’ is begun.

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A4 £15.00 A3 £29.00