[4] Rochester Bombers started their league campaign at the beginning of the 1969 British League Division Two season[5] but the Kent council suddenly ruled against permission to use the facility for speedway, despite the Rochester Town Council being in agreement with the speedway.
The club promoters Wally Mawdsley and Pete Lansdale were "left far from satisfied" and started to seek a new venue.
[8] The team spent two more seasons in the British League Division Two, finishing in eighth and twelfth places respectively.
[9] The promotion was quite successful but one vociferous local resident obtained a court order closing the track due to noise pollution.
Their place in the league was taken by the non-league team running at Barrow-In-Furness, who later renamed themselves as the Barrow Bombers.