Thorpe Greyhound Track
[1] George Carey owned a series of fields called Careys Meadow which was situated in Thorpe Hamlet, east of Norwich and south of the Yarmouth Road.[2] The fields were prone to flooding being next to River Yare[3] but in 1933 Carey decided to build a greyhound track just one year after The Firs Stadium and Boundary Park Stadium had opened.The racing was independent (unaffiliated to a governing body) and operated in the summer.In winter the fields were manually flooded allowing the site to double up as an ice skating venue.The last greyhound meeting took place on 2 September 1939 before the start of World War II and never reopened.