We are the screaming Jets Traditional Cache
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Ministro - Matt
We are the screaming Jets
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An easy cache in Henson Park in Marrickville, the home ground of the Jets football team. The screaming jets are those that fly overhead as they head to and from Sydney Airport.
The cache resurrects the archived cache Home Ground Advantage by Ywurry. The text below is unashamedly plagiarized from that cache and all credit to Ywurry for the research.
The Standsure Brick Company was on this site from 1886 to 1914. When the brickworks closed, the pits filled with rain and ground water. The largest waterhole was known as “The Blue Hole” and was 40 to 80 feet in places (12.2 to 24.4 metres). Marrickville Council purchased the site in 1923, as it was a serious danger. Unfortunately, nine young boys drowned in the old water hole.
Henson Park was officially opened in 1933 with a cricket match between a representative Marrickville Eleven team and a North Sydney District team, including Don Bradman.
Its first major event was the 1938 Empire Games, in which the venue hosted cycling and the closing ceremony. The SMH (14/2/1938) reported the awesome scene of athletes and officials from all the competing nations standing in ordered lines under their country’s banner on Henson Park. Sir James Leigh- Wood, Chairman of the British Empire Games Federation, read The Call to Youth to assemble in 1942 for the good of humanity and the peace of the world. This Call to Youth would never be answered as most would be fighting around the world in World War Two. During the games, crowds regularly exceeded 40,000.
Since 1937, the ground has been primarily known as the home of the Newtown Rugby League Football Club ("The Bluebags"), today known as the Newtown Jets. The Jets played in the New South Wales Rugby League premiership, a forerunner to the National Rugby League, until 1983 when they were dropped from the competition for financial reasons. The Newtown Jets is now a feeder club for the NRL and is an iconic part of the Newtown/Marrickville sporting history.
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Park is closed from 10.00pm to 6.00am.
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