Pine Creek Workers Amusement Club are holding a Grand Fancy Dress Football Match
Details:
Title
Pine Creek Workers Amusement Club are holding a Grand Fancy Dress Football Match,
Photographer
Miller, William Charles,
Photo number
PH0188/0139,
Collection
David R. Miller Collection,
PictureNT,
PictureNT,
Date
1914-08-08,
Description
Probably a sports event or football game. Possibly on the oval on the Esplanade [see also PH188/0138].
Sports historian and oral archivist Matthew Stephen has suggested that this image could be associated with Red Cross fundraising activities during the First World War [18 July 2015].,
Northern Territory Times and Gazette, Thursday August 6, 1914
Hullo! Hullo! Look Here. The Pine Creek Workers Amusement Club are holding a Grand Fancy Dress Football Match on Saturday, 8th August, 1914. Refreshments obtainable at the ground. A collection as aid of the club will be taken up.
J. M. McDonald Hon. Sec.
Oral history Transcript of Kath Mahony interviewed by Ronda Jamieson, NTRS 226 446. Kath Born in 1908. “Oh yes they had a tennis court, yes (In Pine Creek). I know they had a tennis court, but as I say we were too young for all that sort of thing. About the only sport that I remember playing. I don’t know about football, I think they may have had a fancy dress football once in the dim dark ages, but I can’t remember.” Page 19 Matthew Stephen, author of 'Contact Zones', CDU Press, 2010 and 'Colour Bar', Historical Society of the Northern Territory Darwin 2015,