Celebrating 100 years at Lindfield Cricket Club

The Great War, as were named at the time, lost such a high percentage of boys and men that almost no Australian family or community was without grief. The story goes that local Lindfield men in the Somme promised each other that if they were fortunate enough to make it back home, they would band together to build a local cricket oval for their community’s recreation and leisure. That is as grassroots as it gets.

Seven esteemed local businessmen were photographed in three-piece suits amongst the eucalyptus in 1907. The North Shore rail line had opened in 1890 and now the post war subdivisions were creating East Lindfield

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