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Distance over time is velocity.
Thyme over lamb is subtly delicious.
Windy Hill over time is harder to calculate.
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To be fair, the bowls club has provided a significant net bonus of out-on-the-full free kicks to our VFL team.
Extrapolating from the bowls club eastward migration, I predict an invasion of the primary school by 2050.
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The top right-hand portion (currently the croquet club) was actually zoned for keeping livestock until maybe five years ago.
The 2050 picture will be nothing but a sprawling metropolis of bowling greens.
For a time it was the only reserve in Melbourne to facilitate more than 3 sports.
May I ask how you obtained the imagery from pre 2010?
It’s not publicly available, but the photography was taken pretty regularly over the decades.
1945.Melbourne is free to use if you want to burn a few hours.
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Love historic satellite imagery like that, shame what youre using isn’t publicly available.
This isn’t what I used, but seems pretty good.
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l marvel that they had found out about colour photography by 1998. Surely they were ahead of their time.
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The bulk of the good historical imagery comes from immediately after WW2. All the reconnaissance aircraft, cameras and aircrews were far better than anything available before the war. Australia used that capability to do a huge amount of domestic survey work before they were disbanded.
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Queen’s Birthday Monday - 14th of June, 1982. Attendance 33,792.
Essendon 19.12.126 def FarkCarlton 8.18.66 with Wayne Otway kicking four goals.
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Stood up on the hill in the forward pocket School End. Ran into a cricket club bloke who’d left a year after we amalgamated with Glenhuntly CC. Chucker and a Carlton fan. Justin Madden was taking marks over Geoff Southby in the goal square. Took 2 hours to drive home to Caulfield. Bought my Bombers scarf that I still have that day.
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I only ever went to one game at Windy Hill, Bombers v Swans in ‘89. We lost. Neale Daniher played. I feel like it’s a great shame that all the character and atmosphere that goes with these suburban grounds is now lost to the game. I went to the VFL pretty regularly pre-COVID, and I really enjoyed going to the old traditional home grounds. For me it’s really difficult to escape the feeling that our club lost an important part of its soul/identity when it left Windy Hill.
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I was there and I remember it well. Massive noise of kids banging on the tin wall at the back of the outer stand every time we scored a goal. The Bombers could do no wrong and made Carlton look stupid.
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Windy Hill was a really bad ground to play footy on. In the 1960s and 1970s, I played lots of school games there and finals in EDFL, and it was always Windy, go figure !
But I loved standing in the outer, even in the cold and rain, drinking a dozen or more tins of VB watching the greatest Team on earth, with the rest of the feral drunks.
Should have been bulldozed 40 years or more years ago. Fark Essendon Council.
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