What year was the Eastern grandstand put in at Birmingham Gardens??
I distinctly remember sitting on the southern Hill with my Dad, and while a game was being played, watching some sort of post-basher hammering something into the earth in what I assume was the grandstand foundations.. (I remember at the time wondering why I could see it being hit, but the sound of it being hit coming a second or so later, hahaha)..
Trying to put a year to this memory..
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Hopefully ii have got my bearings right but the Eastern is the side with the dressing rooms and the side you enter ground from??
Northern the cemetery end and Southern the scrap metal joint ???
I am pretty certain the Eastern stand at Breakers Stadium was built before the Breakers first home game ever. To the best of my memory it was always there from day 1
I recall them putting in some budget seating and roofed areas on the Western side a few years later before they went kaput
Not thinking it was there when Australs were there
May well have been going up at the end of Australs days there in preparation for the NSL Breakers side.
Can't imagine the thing would have taken too long to build either as it is pretty simple in design so I would be backing most closer to your 1990 mark than the 1986 mark