McGowan3
Debutant
Thanks for that 1950s perspective! The period I am referring to is the mid 1960s when my older brother played in the Under 19s. They played at home at the same time as the seniors when they played away. They must have moved the cage away from the bowling club. It was around the side near a small entrance. To get it to swear(and there were many f bombs}, the blokes used to pretend they were about to pour some beer on its head and it would then let fly. Compulsory viewing for a 10 yo whose parents hardly swore at all. The f word was taboo in lots of places then. Remember the bowling green well. Also used to climb up into the small pressbox/scoreboard on the hfflank and watch. Couldn't do it when the ones were playing.Well, in my younger days, <cough, splutter, kicks ground, where are my hearing aids?> early 1950's, I remember the cage being outside the bowling club door.
My family (parents, uncles, cousins) gathered on the bitumen opposite the bowling club house, standing room!, about half-forward line, closer to the grandstand than the scoreboard end.
Ladies and kids went in at half-time to bowling club, for the mothers to get a cup of tea with biscuits, who then tried to evenly distribute said biscuits to the kids.
The men, my father and uncles, wandered into the Cricket Club bar.
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