Melbourne's world famous cricket ground reaches a major milestone today, turning 170. It hasn't always been this grand.
abc.net.au/news/mcg-turns-170-melbourne-jolimont-afl-cricket-footy-history/102868676It's hard to imagine a time when the Melbourne Cricket Ground wasn't such a conspicuous feature of the Melbourne skyline.
"It's a big landmark that you can see from different parts of the city, those light towers especially stand out to show what is like the beating heart of Melbourne," he said. The Governor, Charles Latrobe, offered the club the use of a paddock in what at that stage was effectively the semi-rural village of Richmond.
Local entrepreneurs Spiers and Pond brought the England team to Australia in what was the first commercial sponsorship of cricket. "One year they were using it to dump night soil so they could help fertilise and another year they had a dog plague and they had dead dogs that were buried to help fertilise," David Studham said.
The capacity in the 1930s was around 90,000, but that grew to more than 110,00 thanks to another renovation ahead of the 1956 Olympics.
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