Racing at Crystal Palace

There's been car races at Crystal Palace since 1899! Now it only takes place once a year, this weekend, the May Spring bank holiday. We've never been but I do have a framed picture from an old GWR ad hanging on the wall, so thought it was probably a good idea to experience it for ourselves.

We packed a picnic and headed across the road to see the races. We met little friend T and his mama and the boys had lots of fun.

Highlights included; having a go on real diggers (C and I had to hook ducks from a pond, whilst R and T had to knock down skittles), seeing inside the car's engines and watching the barrel train (a quad bike pulling multiple barrels on wheels.

The races were timed and we saw loads of vintage cars circling around the track. We had a lovely picnic at the top of the hill looking down onto the race track.

It was a lot of fun and so close to home! When C is a little bigger we will definitely look at going to other races and air shows etc. as C didn't appreciate fully just yet but I'm sure he will.