Walter Creasor

Life and career Creasor was born in Middlesbrough, Yorkshire, He began his football career at Northern League club Redcar, then joined the books of his hometown club, Middlesbrough F.C. the following season, and played for the reserve team in the North-Eastern League, but not for the Football League team. and in local cups, but he did make six league appearances, scoring once.

Creasor rode in the first speedway meeting in the north-east of England, at the Cleveland Park track, Middlesbrough, in August 1928. He rode in the 1929 Scottish Open, being eliminated in his heat by eventual winner Drew McQueen. He competed for Newcastle in the 1929 English Dirt Track League, and topped his team's averages. After Newcastle lost to Halifax in the semi-final of the English Dirt Track Knockout Cup, the winners borrowed Creasor for the final, a heavy defeat to Preston. In September 1929, he rode for Yorkshire against Lancashire at Wembley.

Creasor was a resident of Linthorpe, Middlesbrough, at the time of his death in November 1975 at the age of 73.