On the subject of greyhound racing (see my last post on Walthamstow Stadium) I came across this intriguing photograph from the Times Archive titled ‘Keeping the dogs up to scratch’. The caption reads: All on a summer’s days, girls from the greyhound kennels in Wandsworth, southewest London, put some of the dogs through their paces over hurdles in August 1939.

 

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