NEW CHANGEROOMS A FAR CRY FROM OLD ARMY HUT

RE the opening of the new genderneutral changerooms at the Thomson Reserve.

As a life member of Thomson Cricket Club, a former president and secretary of Thomson Football Club and trustee, secretary and treasurer of the committee of management of the Thomson Reserve, l was delighted to read of the new building costing $650,000.

This took my memory back to 1956. The Geelong City Council purchased an ex-army hut from the Camp Pell Migrant Hostel for 150 pounds and placed it at the Thomson Reserve for clubrooms.

l and many other players spent nightly working bees knocking out the plaster walls with sledgehammers and saws. The hut stood at Thomson until 1966 when new changerooms were built.

Rather than demolish the old hut, the council transported it to the Breakwater Reserve, and it is still there.

Ian J. Stacey. Leopold.