Generations in black and gold.

If you remember Cabbage Tree Swamp, just off Sandringham Road and within a stone's throw of Eden Park, you would have to be 80 years of age, or older. The area had been originally owned by a Mr Gribble and Mr Hirst and was given by them to the local council in the 1920s. During the late 20s the swamp was reclaimed and turned into a sports field and naturally enough named Gribblehirst Park. In 1930 it became the home ground of the Eden Rugby Football Club, although their headquarters remained at 12 Parrish Road, a street running off Sandringham Road opposite Gribblehirst Park.