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South Lynn Greyhound Stadium was constructed on farmland south of King's Lynn town centre, with the first official meeting taking place on 27th August 1951. Speedway was introduced in 1952, with a track marked out within in the infield of the greyhound track.
Neither the dogs nor the speedway attracted much interest, with greyhounds ceasing in 1955. One stock car meeting was staged on the speedway track in September 1955, with another on a Sunday afternoon in October 1956.
Legend has it that the 1956 meeting was held in the car park, rather than in the stadium, although the evidence found to date seems to suggest that it is just a legend. Gerry Weir was interviewed for Patricia Abbott's book The Rolling Lap, and he told her that he did not remember any meeting in the car park.
The stadium was abandoned and unused from 1956 to 1964, before being refurbished and reopened as a speedway track in 1965, with the dogs returning the following year. Stock car racing, in the form of F2 or Spedeworth spec cars, were brought in at the end of 1966.
F1 stock car racing made another one-off appearance in early 1987, with 4 meetings in 1988. However, the busy fixture list of the time saw King's Lynn struggle for decent numbers of cars and paying spectators, and the F1s were dropped.
After a decade of occasional meetings, the venue became a permanent addition to the fixture list in 1999.
