Newmarket, Suffolk
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If you like horses, go to Newmarket ! There are two race courses, the Rowley Mile (which hosts two of the British Classics, the 2000 and 1000 Guineas) and the
July Course. I prefer the Rowley Mile which now has a modern grandstand and excellent facilities - and if you go there, walk out to the rails and look at the sky - it's
huge !! In the town there are plenty of pubs and restaurants, and also the
National Horse Racing Museum.
Two postcards of horses being exercised on Bury Heath and Plantation Heath. The cards date from 1913 and 1914.
This postcard of the July Course was mailed in 1903.
The old grandstand on the Rowley Mile Course - this was demolished in the late 1990s and replaced with a more modern structure with excellent facilities - but
for the ordinary racegoer, the view of the racing is not as good.
Compare this postcard with that above and note the changes - I presume this
card is much earlier.
This postcard was mailed in 1905.
This postcard of the Severals dates from about 1907.......
.......as does this postcard of Duchess Drive.
A postcard mailed in 1907 in Paris.
Another Edwardian view of High Street.
This card of the Bury Road has a 1905 postmark.
The Avenue - a postcard from about 1910.
The Cooper Memorial
No date for this postcard - the Rowley Mile Grandstand is in the background.
The Devil's Dyke, with I think the July Course Grandstands in the distance.
Horses exercising on Bury Heath.
postcards of the past
An early 20th Century view of the High Street.
Another view of the Jubilee Tower.
No date for this view of Bury Road, "Newmarket's Boulevard" !
The Terrace, High Street, in the early 1900s.
St Mary's Square.