The 1936 Ards TT motor racing disaster, in which eight people were killed, is to be memorialised with a plaque in Newtownards.
Elected representatives at Ards and North Down Council’s Planning Committee this week agreed to the erection of a memorial to the eight people who were killed on Church Street, Newtownards during the 1936 Ards TT race. At that time it was the biggest and most popular car racing event in the world. 40 people were injured, and it became the last year the event was hosted in Newtownards.
The acrylic full colour A3 plaque will cost around £1,000, and will be placed on the wall outside Ards Hospital, Church Street. It will show a picture from the times, and will be inscribed “In memory of the eight spectators who died as a result of a crash during the Ards TT race on 5 September 1936.” There were no objections to the plaque.
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