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Parkside Football Club 1897/2017
The Builders Arms Hotel has long been a significant site for Melbourne’s Aboriginal community and is
part of the Fitzroy Aboriginal heritage walking trail. A plaque on the pub’s façade reads:
“This hotel was an important Aboriginal social and political gathering place from the 1940s to the
1980s. The Builders Arms Hotel offered an alternative meeting space to the Gore Street church and
earned national reputation as a Black Pub of Melbourne. It was here the Aboriginal people mixed
with the Fitzroy milieu and forged friendships with long-term residents and post-war immigrants that
populated the suburb.”
The custodians of The Builders Arms Hotel today are Andrew McConnell and Anthony Hammond.
Respectful of its rich history and old bones, they have lovingly restored the pub over the years and
have ensured it remains a meeting place for locals.”
http://buildersarmshotel.com.au/past-present/
On 2nd August 1962, B. Rickards informed committee that “A” Grade team “continues with success
and retains unbeaten record.” He stressed that he is very pleased with team.
Parkside ended 1962 home-and-away season with a game against Socials, defeating them by 17
points. Parkside 10.11 d. Socials 8.6
Best for Parkside were Gregory, Pope and Ferris.
The coach, B. Rickards stated that “A” team “went through home and home games undefeated and
is confident of outcome of finals.”
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Parkside finished 1 with 68 points (238,7), Socials 2 with 58 points (309,2), Kingsville 3 with 52
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points and Spotswood 4 with 44 points.
Parks Crash
“In the other A Grade semi-final Parkside, previously undefeated, were soundly beaten by F. and Y.
Socials 11.15 to 5.16.
Socials, winning the toss at the Western Reserve, raced away to a five goal lead with the wind, and
defended grandly in the second term to keep Parkside out.”
The Mail, September 6, 1962
Once a Parksider, Always a Parksider
