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:
“Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting.
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—George Orwell (1903–1950)
“If a walker is indeed an individualist there is nowhere he can’t go at dawn and not many places he can’t go at noon. But just as it demeans life to live alongside a great river you can no longer swim in or drink from, to be crowded into safer areas and hours takes much of the gloss off walking—one sport you shouldn’t have to reserve a time and a court for.”
—Edward Hoagland (b. 1932)
“Sweet Auburn, loveliest village of the plain,
Where health and plenty cheered the labouring swain,
Where smiling spring its earliest visit paid,
And parting summer’s lingering blooms delayed,
Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease,
Seats of my youth, when every sport could please,
How often have I loitered o’er the green,
Where humble happiness endeared each scene.”
—Oliver Goldsmith (1730?–1774)