Frew Park, Brisbane Australia - EDdictedToTravel
The Coolest Park in Brisbane|Arena Playground at Frew Park Milton
Frew Park (former Milton Tennis Centre site)
Frew St, Milton QLD 4064
'The Arena' playground
The Arena play space has been designed to suit children and young people from 10-15 years of age. It combines architectural and play components to present a play space based on the former tennis court grandstand. Play areas for younger children are incorporated into the ground level of The Arena, along with features to cater for people of all abilities to enjoy play.
Features of The Arena include:
a large climbing wall
a large three metre wide, three metre high, slide
various angled surfaces for climbing
seating ledges for social interaction
climbing nets and cages, including a mesh cage eight metres off the ground
a large, curling, five metre high, slide.
Frew Park History; Ken Laffey State President Tennis Qld, on the Brisbane International
Brisbane International's Growing Importance
Frew Park; History. Jimmy leads the discussion with Don on Fancutts
Jimmy talks his great mate Don Andrews about one of natures true Gentleman. Trevor Fancutt.
Fancutt's Tennis Centre a little gem in the history of Queensland Tennis.
Click on each name to watch tennis greats talking to Hugh Lunn and Peter Rasey on YouTube. Ashley Cooper won Wimbledon age 21 and married Miss Australia, Helen Wood. He names Llew Hoad as the best player he came up against. And Mal Anderson, who won the US Open un-seeded. Originally from the Queensland town of Theodore, near Rod Laver’s Rockhampton, Anderson names Ken Rosewall as the toughest to beat. And Frank Sedgman, the last man to win all three Wimbledon titles in the one year. Hugh interviews Brisbane tennis identity Brian Laver who is famous in Queensland for being Rod Laver’s cousin, for running a left-wing bookshop, and for being a tennis coach and friend of Jimmy Shepherd. Next up, Australian actor and scriptwriter Jeffrey R. Row introduces a suite of interviews with Trevor Fancutt talking about early tennis days, touring the world, and how true everlasting love for Daphne (nee Seeney) Fancutt brought him to Australia. Hugh Lunn talks about his tennis memories. More interviews with Australian tennis champions follow. In these clips recorded in Brisbane in 2014, the champs reminisce about tennis in the old days, especially tennis at the world-famous Milton Tennis Stadium in Brisbane, which was once home of many Davis Cup Challenge Round Finals and Australian Open championships. Part of the old Milton site was known as Frew Park and it will soon re-open as a park. You can also watch a clip of North Queensland champ Billy Lee Long – a member of the Hopman Squad who was like a brother to Kenny Fletcher - and Jimmy Shepherd who was Rod Laver’s doubles partner and recently retuned to coach in Brisbane after 40 years coaching in the USA. Click on each name to see Wendy Turnbull, Fay Toyne, Geoff Masters, all Queensland icons. Then there is The Stefan Racquet and Ken Fletcher Park.
A DAY OUT AT FREW PARK
AWESOME DAY trip with friends
Frew Park Opening. Roy Emerson Tennis Centre and Wendy Turnbull Green
Full Channel 140 YouTube's on the History of Milton
The Toowong Wards annual Christmas Party was the backdrop
to the fun and excitement.
Frew Park History, Hugh Lunn's Big Day Out... Brisbane Tram Museum.
This wonderful series, records the introductions to several other YouTube's.
The package was so interesting I decided to link them all together.
Hope you agree.
Jaxson's Park Reviews - Frew Park
Today we went to Frew Park at Milton, Brisbane, Jaxson says it's the best park he's ever been to !!!
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Frew Park, Jimmy Shepherd leads the discussion on Mal Anderson
Another great story on Mal Anderson is added into the archives.
Don Andrews has that quit air of authority and tells an interesting story.
Click on each name to watch tennis greats talking to Hugh Lunn and Peter Rasey on YouTube. Ashley Cooper won Wimbledon age 21 and married Miss Australia, Helen Wood. He names Llew Hoad as the best player he came up against. And Mal Anderson, who won the US Open un-seeded. Originally from the Queensland town of Theodore, near Rod Laver’s Rockhampton, Anderson names Ken Rosewall as the toughest to beat. And Frank Sedgman, the last man to win all three Wimbledon titles in the one year. Hugh interviews Brisbane tennis identity Brian Laver who is famous in Queensland for being Rod Laver’s cousin, for running a left-wing bookshop, and for being a tennis coach and friend of Jimmy Shepherd. Next up, Australian actor and scriptwriter Jeffrey R. Row introduces a suite of interviews with Trevor Fancutt talking about early tennis days, touring the world, and how true everlasting love for Daphne (nee Seeney) Fancutt brought him to Australia. Hugh Lunn talks about his tennis memories. More interviews with Australian tennis champions follow. In these clips recorded in Brisbane in 2014, the champs reminisce about tennis in the old days, especially tennis at the world-famous Milton Tennis Stadium in Brisbane, which was once home of many Davis Cup Challenge Round Finals and Australian Open championships. Part of the old Milton site was known as Frew Park and it will soon re-open as a park. You can also watch a clip of North Queensland champ Billy Lee Long – a member of the Hopman Squad who was like a brother to Kenny Fletcher - and Jimmy Shepherd who was Rod Laver’s doubles partner and recently retuned to coach in Brisbane after 40 years coaching in the USA. Click on each name to see Wendy Turnbull, Fay Toyne, Geoff Masters, all Queensland icons. Then there is The Stefan Racquet and Ken Fletcher Park.
What made up Milton? The Frew Park and the Sheard Park connection
It is impossible to appreciate the significance of Sheard Park, and the part it has played in the development of tennis in Brisbane, without a brief history of the Suburban Lawn Tennis Association, and the man who was synonymous with that organisation – Saville Hodge Sheard. The information in this article is sourced from a personal journal in the form of a scrapbook containing newspaper clippings that was produced by him as a record of his family. Page references in this document refer to this journal. The book in question dates from 1903 and finishes in 1936. He died in 1949 and a continuing second book is known to have existed but its fate is unknown.
An article from a publication for the Greater Brisbane Hardcourt Tennis Association Junior Section, Interstate Junior Tennis Carnival 12-18 January 1964 has filled in some missing information. It indicated that the development work on Sheard Park came to a halt with the outbreak of World War II when all associations went into recess. In the mid 1950’s the Executive of the Suburban Lawn Tennis Association handed the courts over to the QLTA. The article stated that:
A link with the founder of the Sheard Park courts still remains, with three young juveniles in Rodney, Kerry and Lynette who are the grandchildren of “the grand old man” of Hardcourt Tennis. These young players have learnt their tennis on the Sheard Park courts in the QLTA Coaching Scheme and are now active members of the Junior Section.
Like his grandfather, Rodney has also been responsible for building tennis courts. He is the Chairman of Populous, world leading experts in sports architecture, and was responsible for the design of the Queensland Tennis Centre at Tennyson as well as the new Centre Court at Wimbledon. This is as well as other stadiums such as Suncorp Stadium at Milton, the Sydney Olympic Stadium, the London Olympic Stadium, Wembley Stadium and Royal Ascot Racecourse to name but a few.
SUBURBAN LAWN TENNIS ASSOCIATION
An article published in the Queensland Tennis Journal on November 1st 1927 (p 21) explained the reason the SLTA was formed:
During 1912 and 1913 the clubs playing mixed doubles tennis in Brisbane and suburbs had taken part in a competition under the auspices of the QLTA. It was then felt that the time was opportune for the formation of a separate body to cater for this class of tennis, and to this end a meeting was held at the latter end of 1913 in the YMCA rooms.
The meeting, with S.H.Sheard presiding, was attended by representatives of 30 tennis clubs. They unanimously decided to found the Suburban Lawn Tennis Association despite two delegates from the QLTA speaking against the motion. The first AGM in 1914 elected an executive with Saville Hodge Sheard as President (p 61) and, except for two years, he was re-elected President for every year from 1914 to 1936 when the available records ended. It was noted that in 1918-1919 he “temporarily threw in his lot with Milton turf court tennis” (p 141). In the inaugural competition in 1914, 24 teams involving 411 players took part. The report for 1926 AGM noted that the SLTA had grown to 183 teams with 1819 players and was the largest tennis association in Australia. (p 99)
The 1929 AGM report (p 117) notes that 3 acres of land in Red Jacket Swamp had been purchased for £600 (£200 deposit had been paid) from the QLTA adjoining their courts. There was enough land for 18 courts and work was to commence in two months. By 1931 the SLTA had grown to 458 teams with nearly 4000 registered players and a newspaper article (p 124) from that year recorded the opening by the Lord Mayor of the first 5 courts constructed by the SLTA. £1700 had been spent on filling in the swamp and constructing the courts. All the money had been raised by the SLTA and, in his speech, the Lord Mayor commended the association on all they had done without public subscription.
QUEENSLAND HARD COURT TENNIS ASSOCIATION
In 1926 a report notes the formation of a controlling body, the Queensland Hardcourt Tennis Association, to represent hard court associations in Queensland. The meeting was attended by representatives of the Suburban, Men’s Metropolitan, Church, Warehouse, Metropolitan Catholic and Men’s Summer Tennis Associations. S.H.Sheard was elected as the President (p 101), a position he filled at least until 1931. There are no reports on AGMs in the Journal after that date. There had always been a hard court section of the QLTA but a recurring theme throughout the Journal was that, under the QLTA, players did not have a say in the election of their governing body and this may indicate why other associations formed. At the QHCTA AGM in 1931 it was noted a new body was to be formed which would be the governing body of all hard court tennis in Queensland.
Frew Park History; Fay Toyne Intoduction.
Fay Toyne introduction.
Frew Park History; Mal Anderson MBE (C) Series 2 The Early Years; Milton Tennis Centre
His two best seasons statistics-wise were 1957 and 1958 when as an amateur he twice achieved a ranking of World No. 2.[1][2]
In 1957, Anderson won the US Championships as an unseeded player. Earlier that year, Anderson had reached the semi-finals of the Australian Championships and won the French Championship doubles, partnering with Ashley Cooper, the man he went on to defeat in the 1957 US Championships final.
In 1958, Anderson was a finalist at both the Australian Championships and US Championships, losing both times to Cooper. Anderson turned professional in late 1958 and went on to win the Wembley Championship in 1959, with a thrilling 5-set victory over former 3-time US Pro champion, Pancho Segura. Anderson did not appear in another major final until 1972, when at age 36, he was a finalist at the Australian Open, losing to Ken Rosewall. In 1973, he captured the Australian Open doubles title along with John Newcombe.
Anderson played on four Australian Davis Cup teams, in 1957, 1958, 1972 and 1973, the team winning twice (1957 and 1973). He was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 2000.
On 3 June 1972, Anderson was named a Member of Order of the British Empire in recognition of service to lawn tennis.
2014 5 AA Frew Park Opening Day 02 x264
This is an 11 minute short movie I made of the Frew Park Opening Day. Frew Park is in Milton, and inner suburb of Brisbane, Queensland Australia.
This area had a world class tennis centre where Davis Cup, Australian Open and other championships were held up untill about the 1980s. There was also a Ten Pin Bowling building there which Marie and I visited at times. I think because the whole area is quite low ASL and it was flooded in the Queensland floods in 1974 the area came into dissrepair. We could see the top of the tennis courte seating at that time.
In the video where the Lord Mayor is giving his opening speech, the flood water was about two metres over his head.
The Milton State Primary School is across the street from Frew Park which is where some serious protest meetings were held because a building conglomerate wantd to build appartments on the site, some ten stories high. We, the public was not prepared to endure the noise in the building of the place and the future problems of cars and various traffic so close to a school. The woman that the Lord Mayor mentions named Elizabeth (I can't remember her surname) was the driving force behind the protests so I acknowledge her efforts.
Tennis greats played here. Perhaps Lew Hoad. Certainly Margaret Court, Rod laver and many others.
Juan C.E. D'Alton. January 2015.
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Frew Park; History; Kenny Fletcher and Hugh Lunn and the Trams of Brisbane.
Ian Macaulay talks more about his playing career, the friends of Kenny Fletcher. Hugh Lunn and his famous books get a mention.
Lastly Ian talks about the Trams of Brisbane.
Frew Park History; Mal Anderson MBE (C) series 6; The Pat Rafter Connection.
His two best seasons statistics-wise were 1957 and 1958 when as an amateur he twice achieved a ranking of World No. 2.[1][2]
In 1957, Anderson won the US Championships as an unseeded player. Earlier that year, Anderson had reached the semi-finals of the Australian Championships and won the French Championship doubles, partnering with Ashley Cooper, the man he went on to defeat in the 1957 US Championships final.
In 1958, Anderson was a finalist at both the Australian Championships and US Championships, losing both times to Cooper. Anderson turned professional in late 1958 and went on to win the Wembley Championship in 1959, with a thrilling 5-set victory over former 3-time US Pro champion, Pancho Segura. Anderson did not appear in another major final until 1972, when at age 36, he was a finalist at the Australian Open, losing to Ken Rosewall. In 1973, he captured the Australian Open doubles title along with John Newcombe.
Anderson played on four Australian Davis Cup teams, in 1957, 1958, 1972 and 1973, the team winning twice (1957 and 1973). He was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 2000.
On 3 June 1972, Anderson was named a Member of Order of the British Empire in recognition of service to lawn tennis.
Frew Park, History. Don Andrews the Harrods Tennis Pro and Fancutts.
Don Andrews Harrods Tennis Pro, tells his story.
Utah and the Frew Park, Milton Tennis Connection.
So lets talk about UTAH
Click on each name to watch tennis greats talking to Hugh Lunn and Peter Rasey on YouTube. Ashley Cooper won Wimbledon age 21 and married Miss Australia, Helen Wood. He names Llew Hoad as the best player he came up against. And Mal Anderson, who won the US Open un-seeded. Originally from the Queensland town of Theodore, near Rod Laver’s Rockhampton, Anderson names Ken Rosewall as the toughest to beat. And Frank Sedgman, the last man to win all three Wimbledon titles in the one year. Hugh interviews Brisbane tennis identity Brian Laver who is famous in Queensland for being Rod Laver’s cousin, for running a left-wing bookshop, and for being a tennis coach and friend of Jimmy Shepherd. Next up, Australian actor and scriptwriter Jeffrey R. Row introduces a suite of interviews with Trevor Fancutt talking about early tennis days, touring the world, and how true everlasting love for Daphne (nee Seeney) Fancutt brought him to Australia. Hugh Lunn talks about his tennis memories. More interviews with Australian tennis champions follow. In these clips recorded in Brisbane in 2014, the champs reminisce about tennis in the old days, especially tennis at the world-famous Milton Tennis Stadium in Brisbane, which was once home of many Davis Cup Challenge Round Finals and Australian Open championships. Part of the old Milton site was known as Frew Park and it will soon re-open as a park. You can also watch a clip of North Queensland champ Billy Lee Long – a member of the Hopman Squad who was like a brother to Kenny Fletcher - and Jimmy Shepherd who was Rod Laver’s doubles partner and recently retuned to coach in Brisbane after 40 years coaching in the USA. Click on each name to see Wendy Turnbull, Fay Toyne, Geoff Masters, all Queensland icons. Then there is The Stefan Racquet and Ken Fletcher Park.
Frew Park. Country Week and the RNA connection.
Don Andrews and Jimmy Shepherd talk about a interesting but little appreciated bygone tradition. Unique to Queensland and maybe one worthy of being brought back into favour.
Country Week, a good opportunity to play on Grass. Only in Queensland would that have been important.
Click on each name to watch tennis greats talking to Hugh Lunn and Peter Rasey on YouTube. Ashley Cooper won Wimbledon age 21 and married Miss Australia, Helen Wood. He names Llew Hoad as the best player he came up against. And Mal Anderson, who won the US Open un-seeded. Originally from the Queensland town of Theodore, near Rod Laver’s Rockhampton, Anderson names Ken Rosewall as the toughest to beat. And Frank Sedgman, the last man to win all three Wimbledon titles in the one year. Hugh interviews Brisbane tennis identity Brian Laver who is famous in Queensland for being Rod Laver’s cousin, for running a left-wing bookshop, and for being a tennis coach and friend of Jimmy Shepherd. Next up, Australian actor and scriptwriter Jeffrey R. Row introduces a suite of interviews with Trevor Fancutt talking about early tennis days, touring the world, and how true everlasting love for Daphne (nee Seeney) Fancutt brought him to Australia. Hugh Lunn talks about his tennis memories. More interviews with Australian tennis champions follow. In these clips recorded in Brisbane in 2014, the champs reminisce about tennis in the old days, especially tennis at the world-famous Milton Tennis Stadium in Brisbane, which was once home of many Davis Cup Challenge Round Finals and Australian Open championships. Part of the old Milton site was known as Frew Park and it will soon re-open as a park. You can also watch a clip of North Queensland champ Billy Lee Long – a member of the Hopman Squad who was like a brother to Kenny Fletcher - and Jimmy Shepherd who was Rod Laver’s doubles partner and recently retuned to coach in Brisbane after 40 years coaching in the USA. Click on each name to see Wendy Turnbull, Fay Toyne, Geoff Masters, all Queensland icons. Then there is The Stefan Racquet and Ken Fletcher Park.
Frew Park Milton History; Daphne Fancutt AM Series Two; Work Ethic. Frew Park
Daphne Fancutt was born Daphne Seeney in 1933, the youngest of 9 children. She grew up on a property 15 miles outside Monto in Queensland where she went to a one teacher school at Moonford. Daphne was schooled as a boarder for secondary school at Rockhampton Grammar and late at Brisbane Girls Grammar School where she was both junior and senior tennis champion. After coaching by her father, a former jockey and race horse trainer (running miles each day and hitting continuously against an old door leaning against the house) she eventually achieved her goal of going to a big tournament (the State titles in Bundaberg in 1951. Here she won two Queensland title the hard way. She had a pair of thin sandshoes which had blood oozing out the sides when she finished playing.) Because of these wins she was selected in the Queensland Wilson Cup Team. She became Qld Singles and Doubles champion and also won many other tournaments throughout Qld.
Daphe was selected in the Courier Mail coaching squad, a week with the great Davis Cup coach, Harry Hopman. Her fitness and attitude impressed him. Daphne's never say die attitude gave her a competitive edge over her opponents throughout her tennis career which spanned several decades. Daphne's achievements are amazing especially as she received no financial assistance from Tennis Australia or Tennis Queensland.
Frew Park. Stefan Racket backgrond stories; Sir Robert Mahers
Here we hear, Don Andrews talk about the great sporting revival between Stefan and another Retail legend in Queensland Sir Robert Mathers.
Hugh Lunn Comments
Ashley Cooper won Wimbledon age 21 and married Miss Australia, Helen Wood. He names Llew Hoad as the best player he came up against. And Mal Anderson, who won the US Open un-seeded. Originally from the Queensland town of Theodore, near Rod Laver’s Rockhampton, Anderson names Ken Rosewall as the toughest to beat. And Frank Sedgman, the last man to win all three Wimbledon titles in the one year. Hugh interviews Brisbane tennis identity Brian Laver who is famous in Queensland for being Rod Laver’s cousin, for running a left-wing bookshop, and for being a tennis coach and friend of Jimmy Shepherd. Next up, Australian actor and scriptwriter Jeffrey R. Row introduces a suite of interviews with Trevor Fancutt talking about early tennis days, touring the world, and how true everlasting love for Daphne (nee Seeney) Fancutt brought him to Australia. Hugh Lunn talks about his tennis memories. More interviews with Australian tennis champions follow. In these clips recorded in Brisbane in 2014, the champs reminisce about tennis in the old days, especially tennis at the world-famous Milton Tennis Stadium in Brisbane, which was once home of many Davis Cup Challenge Round Finals and Australian Open championships. Part of the old Milton site was known as Frew Park and it will soon re-open as a park. You can also watch a clip of North Queensland champ Billy Lee Long – a member of the Hopman Squad who was like a brother to Kenny Fletcher - and Jimmy Shepherd who was Rod Laver’s doubles partner and recently retuned to coach in Brisbane after 40 years coaching in the USA. Click on each name to see Wendy Turnbull, Fay Toyne, Geoff Masters, all Queensland icons. Then there is The Stefan Racquet and Ken Fletcher Park.