Sport
Speedway racing was staged at the greyhound stadium in Hazel Grove in 1937 although details of the meetings are quite sketchy. Greyhound racing meetings were held every Saturday afternoon for many years, until the track was closed around (??) 1960. The site of the stadium has since been redeveloped, partly as a Carpet World store.
Opposite this Carpet World store lies Hazel Grove Snooker Club which has been established for 27 years and boasts over 40 tables, one of the largest in the North West. This club regularly hosts the WPBSA Under 18 Snooker Championships and has played host to a variety of famous snooker players and legends.
Hazel Grove has several recreational centres. Hazel Grove Leisure Centre, in the grounds of Hazel Grove High School, Hazel Grove Pools and Target Fitness and Torkington Park which provides crown green bowling, tennis courts and football pitches.
There is also a tennis and bowling club on Douglas Road, two cricket clubs, Hazel Grove CC and Norbury CC, the latter including a lacrosse club and crown green bowling club, each with their own facilities, whilst Norbury Athletic is a junior football club based opposite the high school on Jacksons Lane.
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Famous quotes containing the word sport:
“What sport shall we devise here in this garden
To drive away the heavy thought of care?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
““Justice” was done, and the President of the Immortals, in Æschylean phrase, had ended his sport with Tess. And the d’Urberville knights and dames slept on in their tombs unknowing. The two speechless gazers bent themselves down to the earth, as if in prayer, and remained thus a long time, absolutely motionless: the flag continued to wave silently. As soon as they had strength they arose, joined hands again, and went on.
The End”
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)
“I wish glib and indiscriminate critics of industrialists had some conception of the problems that have to be met by factory management.... General condemnation of employers is a favorite indoor sport of the uninformed intelligentsia who assume the role of lance- bearers for labor.”
—Mary Barnett Gilson (1877–?)