In the early part of the 20th century the Myrtle Grove sports ground was built and used by the Walthamstow Grange Football Club from 1908.

[2] It cost Chandler £24,000 to buy the site and the Art Deco parapet entrance was built in 1932 with the clock tower and totalisator board being designed by Thomas & Edge Ltd. builders of Woolwich.

The trainers and greyhounds attached to Walthamstow were situated in kennels to the north called 'The Limes' in Sewardstone Road not far from Epping Forest.

Walthamstow were unusual in the fact that they hired several female trainers at the time; a practice attributed to the influence of Frances Chandler (the wife of William's son Charles).

Wartime champion greyhound Ballynennan Moon won the Stewards Cup and broke the track record in 1942.

[8] As the war ended the stadium hosted Winston Churchill as he addressed 20,000 people when canvassing support for re-election.

[10] In 1948 the track had their first English Greyhound Derby finalist in Doughery Boy and two more female trainers Noreen Collin and Miss K Sanderson joined in 1950.

In 1963 the track introduced a closed circuit television system [11] and in 1965 chromotography (a drug testing unit) was first used at Walthamstow in their purpose built lab.

Coral and Ladbrokes expressed an interest but Charles Jr., Percy and Frances Chandler spent over £400,000 to withstand the takeover attempts and buy the track outright.

Charley Chan's nightclub was built under the clock tower totalisator board in 1984 and a new generation of trainer included Jim Sherry, Dick Hawkes and Kenny Linzell.

In 1986, one of the leading trainers in the country had just joined Oxford Stadium but switched to Walthamstow after receiving a late job offer.

Less than a year later Baggs trained Signal Spark to the 1987 English Greyhound Derby crown, remarkably the first time the track had achieved the accolade.

[2] Chris Page became Racing Manager and a second Derby triumph arrived when Slippy Blue won the 1990 event.

The track earned their first Bookmakers Afternoon Greyhound Service contract and John Coleman won the trainers championship.

Despite the success the directors agreed to the sale of the company's freehold property to a development consortium led by Yoo Capital and K W Linfoot plc.

[15] Motor cycle speedway racing was staged at the Walthamstow Greyhound Stadium in Chingford Road in 1934 and between 1949 and 1951.

At that time all the other London clubs, Wembley, Wimbledon, West Ham, Harringay and New Cross raced in the First Division.