Vintage

Tennis, golf, cricket, rugby league and athletics - these were some of the sport activities included in a slideshow of old photographs presented at Glenalvon Stables Museum on Saturday 1 July. Programs and tickets from sporting events had been lent by Bev Harrison from the Gore collection. For example, we noted the Local Rules of Campbelltown Golf Club when it was sited on the corner of Camden and Menangle Roads in the 1930s. The land was still owned by Mrs Flitcroft and used for grazing her dairy cattle but the golf greens were fenced off.

Some examples of rules applying were:

"Ball lying in cattle tracks on 1st Fairway may be lifted and dropped without penalty."

"Balls lying on or interfered with by manure may be lifted and dropped without penalty."

Those were the days!

If future visitors to the Glenalvon Stables Museum would like to see this fascinating slideshow, they are welcome to make a request. This is just one of a number of special slideshows now available on the society's iMac computer.