Brunswick Street Oval

WT Peterson Community Oval
Brunswick Street Oval
Former names Brunswick Street Oval, Fitzroy Cricket Ground
Location Edinburgh Gardens, Brunswick St, North Fitzroy, Victoria
Opened 1883
Closed 1966 (for VFL matches)
Owner Fitzroy Football Club
Surface Grass
Capacity 15 000 (approx.)
Tenants
Fitzroy Football Club (VFL 1883-1966), Fitzroy (VAFA), Fitzroy Junior Football Club, Edinburgh Cricket Club

The Brunswick Street Oval, currently known as WT Peterson Community Oval, also known as the Fitzroy Cricket Ground is a cricket and Australian rules football ground located in Edinburgh Gardens in Fitzroy North, Victoria. The ground was the home of Fitzroy Football Club in the VFA from 1883-97, and the home of the club in the VFL from 1897 until 1966, with the last game being played there on Saturday 20 August, 1966 against St Kilda, a game which the Lions lost by 84 points.[1] Fitzroy then began playing their home games at Princes Park. The ground was unused for 27 years before it began to be used by the University Reds football club in 1991. After the Brisbane Bears/Fitzroy merger, the remaining Victorian members of the club began to be based out of the Brunswick St Oval, eventually merging with the University Reds to form the Fitzroy Reds Football Club, which is now based out of the oval.[2] The main grandstand is listed on the Victorian Heritage Register.[3]

Records

References

  1. ^ http://stats.rleague.com/afl/stats/games/1966/061519660820.html
  2. ^ http://fitzroyfc.com.au/brunswickstoval.html
  3. ^ "Fitzroy Cricket Ground Grandstand, Victorian Heritage Register (VHR) Number H0751, Heritage Overlay HO215". Victorian Heritage Database. Heritage Victoria. http://vhd.heritage.vic.gov.au/vhd/heritagevic#detail_places;447. Retrieved 2011-03-27.