Ah now - Crystal Palace! As a Croydonian, this had to be my local circuit - I think the second most dangerous (after Oliver's Mount!), but travel costs were so low I always had to enter! Memories? Pre-racing, I was in the VES, and the son of Margaret Ryerson who ran this, Brian Burgess, rode a Manx there in the Joe Dunphy/Griff Jenkins days. His friend Cyril Jones raced a Triunph, on which he had modified the frame to stop the famour weave on fast corners, especially if you closed the throttle, and worked for/with Richard Wyler, the "Man from Interpol" off the telly, who raced a 125 Honda, and had a motorcycle shop in Worcester Park as well as a coffee bar almost next to Streatham Ice Rink. I bought his (Wyler's) leathers when I started racing, so could for a while boast of having a 'film-star' figure! I remember one of my earliest races there was on a Bantam, and that gentleman of the tracks, Chas Mortimer, who was leading the race, held back from lapping me on the last lap (we were close to the line, so little risk to his position), clearly still able to remember that every lap was precious to a novice! On my last visit to the Island a few years ago Chas instantly converted the rotund figure in front of him into the sleek racing snake of the 70s, and did me the honour of remembering me.