The Old Sydney Showground

Dan · Post by **Dan** » Wed Jan 29, 2003 11:19 pm

Some old pics from the now demolished Sydney Showground(now Fox Studios)

I loved this old Members stand!

marcus · Post by **marcus** » Wed Jan 29, 2003 11:27 pm

tailz · Post by **tailz** » Thu Jan 30, 2003 8:48 pm

is that a chair lift going through the stands? nice looking old ground though. i don't think the swans ever played there but exhibition games may have been held there.

Jeffles · Post by **Jeffles** » Fri Jan 31, 2003 12:19 am

You guys are so good for bringing up old grounds of Sydney this week. FANTASTIC!!!

The chair lift went over the Martin & Angus stand (2nd pic from the bottom). Not much of a stand. More a bunch of concrete steps. But the view was nice because the stand was steep. The chair lift was there when the Showground was in operation. The grounds were built on a fair slope running up from the South West to the North East. During the Easter Show you get tired walking around so you'd use the chairlift.

The members stand and the stand underneath have been retained but they've created buildings out of them (like what they want to do with Waverley). The bottom stand has been demolished. Great pics.

I don't remember if the Swans ever played there. I doubt they did. But everything else has been played there. Rugby League, Baseball, Speedway, an ABBA concert, and of course World Series Cricket.