Some great memories
Bromford Bridge racecourse in Birmingham had its own station and special buses ran from the city on race days
Racecourses that once attracted tens of thousands of people in Britain now lie beneath airport runways, university campuses and housing estates.
It is now 50 years since Birmingham’s Bromford Bridge course shut and it is one of many that vanished thanks to a housing boom and the lure of developers’ money.
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