Details of the trip - £44 from London, including 5 nights in Poland and 2 overnight rail couchettes

Rail ticket, London Liverpool Street to Harwich, then Hook of Holland to Poland

Currency exchange - £5 (worth £50 today!) @ 57.2 zloty/£ - in 2004 £1 bought just 6.16 zloty!

Accommodation (very basic) was at the Almatur International Student Hotel

Travel was by trams or trolleybus

A commercial postcard viewe of The Town Hall (Rathaus), Wroclaw

Some of us ventured to a football match at Slask Wroclaw - more soldiers than public, don't know who was playing!

Official poster for the big event

Here's my ticket for the World Final

This commercially produced postcard of the Olympic Stadium commemorated an athletics event in 1969

The front cover of the official programme for the 1970 World Final

The back cover of the programme

A Marek Grotowski photo of riders line up before the event - Jan Mucha and Zygfryd Friedek (Poland), Ole Olsen (Denmark), Valerij Gordeev (USSR), Trevor Hedge (England), Anders Michanek (Sweden), Hans-Jurgen Fritz (E Germany), Henryk Glucklich (Poland)

On his way - Ivan Mauger leads heat 3 from (l-r) Gennadij Kurilenko, Jan Mucha, Barry Briggs - photo, Marek Grotowski

Victor's laurels to Ivan Mauger, with a five ride 15 point maximum - photo, Marek Grotowski

Ivan Mauger walks on a victory lap of honour - photo, Marek Grotowski

Ivan Mauger celebrates with the British Fans, amongst them his wife, Raye - photo, Marek Grotowski

Detailed results from the World Final

Detailed results from the World Final