Nostalgia

48 years ago, Sunday 8 October 1978, this full page advertisement was placed in The Sun Herald. — Westfield Shoppingtown Hurstville would open to the public in two days time.

The project, which was announced in 1975 and cost $30 million, was hailed as “the start of a new and greater shopping era for St George”.

Hurstville had previously been the main shopping centre in the southern suburbs, but had suffered from the development of Southside Plaza in Rockdale (1963), Miranda Fair (1964) and Roselands (1965). In addition, the super centre above Hurstville railway station, which also opened in 1965, never got beyond the first stage.

The development included a $250,000 park on the roof of one of the centre’s car parks, which has since disappeared.



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Happy 94th birthday to Barry Owen Jones AC FAA FAHA FTSE FASSA FACE FRSA (born 11 October 1932).

Barry is an Australian writer, teacher, lawyer, social activist, quiz champion - those BP Pick-A-Box days -WOW!, and former politician in the Australian Labor Party.


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Central Cumberland District Cricket Club First Grade Premiers 1964-65​

(beat Western Suburbs by 114 runs in the final at the SCG)

And there's some notables, even after all this time ......


Back Row - H. Goodwin, D. Timmins, R. Shepherd, B. Woolmer, J. Benaud, D. Hartman, J. Dwyer, K.D. Walters

Front Row - R. Flindt, R. Aitken, J. Aitken, M. Godfrey, D. Smith

Absent - R. Benaud (Captain – in West Indies), J. Chadban, J. Parkinson, S. Teale, W. Brisby, D. Good, W.E. Gould



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In 1977, Kerry Packer discovered he could not use the Laws of Cricket. The MCC owned the copyright and they were not going to lend them to a breakaway competition.

So Packer rang a retired Australian captain and asked him to write a new set.

Richie Benaud did it. The playing conditions, the regulations, the whole framework, including the eight-ball over. A parallel rulebook for a parallel sport, written by one man.
And he had been getting ready for something like this for twenty-one years without knowing it. In 1956, while still playing Test cricket for Australia, Benaud arranged three weeks of training at the BBC in the gap between the English and subcontinental legs of the tour. Television had barely reached Australia. Nobody had asked him to do it.

Meanwhile, the man born on exactly the same date, sixteen years later, was doing the dangerous half.

Tony Greig was England's captain in 1977 when he began secretly signing players for Packer, from England, the West Indies and Pakistan. He lost the captaincy for it almost immediately. Then, when the administrators moved to ban everybody involved, Greig went to the High Court in London with Mike Procter and John Snow, and on 25 November 1977 they won.

Now the freakish part is what the two of them became afterwards.
On Channel Nine, Benaud was the voice of authority and Greig was the voice of the spectacle, and between them they turned television rights into the thing that funds the entire sport.

Wisden later wrote that without Benaud to legitimise it, World Series Cricket might never have survived its first difficult months.
Born on the same day, sixteen years apart.



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12 October 1964, Dawn Fraser wins her third gold medal in a row in the 100m Freestyle at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan
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