Bridgnorth BC held their first bicycle race meeting at their new track on August bank holiday 1882, with prizes to the value of £25. Along with the eight running races, there was a one mile bicycle handicap race, which required two heats and a final, and a three miles open handicap. H Thorpe won the one mile race and a silver cup which was donated by EM Southwell, HC Pass, the Bridgnorth BC captain won the three miles race off scratch. The band of F Company SRV played at the event and there was dancing through the evening.
In 1885 the club asked for tenders to construct a new cinder track at Love Lane. The club's annual sports were held on Bank Holiday Monday August 3rd 1885 at the Regatta Field, Stanley Lane, as the cinder track at Love Lane was not ready. There is some doubt as to whether a cinder track was actually built as it is not mention in any later press reports. As well as bicycle and tricycle events, there were races for horses, Galloways and ponies. The attendance was 1,400 and the event made a profit of £23. The Wellington Journal reported "the cycling events on the programme were well contested - two members riding a dead heat for the club tricycle championship."
The 1886 annual sports meeting was held on Whit Monday at their Love Lane ground. The August Bank Holiday meeting also took place, there were a large number of cycle races; 1 mile local handicap, 1 mile open handicap, 1 mile tricycle, 2 miles open handicap, 2 miles open tricycle, there were 1 mile consolation races for bicycles and tricycles and a "tilting at the ring' contest on bicycles.
Bridgnorth CC were very active and popular through the 1890s, their membership peaked at one hundred, the annual subscription was five shillings and the club colours were chocolate and gold. Each year the club promoted their Whit Monday meeting, a Club race meeting in mid-summer and their August meeting. The attendance at race meetings was not often reported in the press, but in 1895 the attendance was over 2,000 even through the weather was poor and in 1897 it was over 3,000.
The 1902 August sports suffered from a drop in attendance and some time after 1903, Bridgnorth CC was disbanded. The cycle ground at Love Lane was advertised to let in 1905 by W Jones of Bridgnorth, as the Waterloo Athletic Pleasure Grounds. Part of the Love Lane sports field was put up for sale in 1913 for housing. Football matches and sports meetings, not including cycle races, were held at the ground in the 1920s.
The 4th Bridgnorth Comrades' United Services Club athletic and cycling sports were held at the ground on August 4th 1924, there were two bicycle handicap races over half and one mile, both were won by W Palmer of Crescent Wheelers. The attendance was 2,000. These sports were repeated the following year and in 1926, but the attendance was poor, so the sports were discontinued. This was the last bicycle racing to be held at Love Lane.
Bridgnorth Traders Cricket Club was formed in 1928 and they played on Love Lane. A new Bridgnorth Cycling Club was founded in 1928 as a touring club, it lasted until 1935 then was revived again in 1937. The new club was principally a touring club but also organised road time trials and hill climbs, the club folded during the Second World War. The club re-formed yet again in 1953 but failed fairly quickly.
** Bridgnorth Bicycle Club changed their name to Bridgnorth Cycling Club in 1883 to reflect the popularity of tricycles at that time.
