Going to the dogs: Mike Huggins revisits the early years of British greyhound racing, the smart modern sports craze of interwar Britain.

History Today | May 1, 2006| | Copyright

GREYHOUND RACING was the third largest commercial leisure activity in late 1930s Britain, after the cinema and soccer. Cinema's weekly attendances averaged over 18 million. But in 1936 the tracks regulated by the National Greyhound Racing Club (NGRC) attracted 19 million customers annually. Greyhound racing was a family entertainment, popular with women as well as men. As A.P. Herbert the novelist had written jokingly in 1926, 'Don't let's go to the dogs tonight, for mother will be there'.

The first standard history of the sport, written in 1934 by breeder Mrs C. ...

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