WHEN WEST HAM WENT TO THE DOGS. By Brian Belton.

2002 1st edition, paperback. Large 8vo paperback (171 x 247mm). Pp128. B/w photographs and illustrations, b/w line illustrations. Foreword by Cliff Mettam, G.R.H.S.

This is the history of West Ham's great Custom House Stadium dog track, by a native son of the borough and keen follower of greyhound racing, at home and abroad. At home and abroad. Chapters include: Solomaon's dogs; The racing world; Cockney dogs; The miller's tale; The cutlet, the Queen and Bob; Call me Ataxy!; The glorious beginnings of the inevitable end; And then the dogs were gone. The appendix list winners of the Cesarewitch at West Ham, 1928-71, West Ham track records, and winners of the British Waterloo Cup "from the time greyhound racing started to the time of the demise of West Ham Greyhound Track.