Original post 30 March 2020
This is a bit hidden in #AlbertPark, near #FitzroyStreetStKilda, and it’s very nice but I don’t really know what it’s about apart from what’s on the plaque. I’m guessing the VBA is the Victorian Bowls Association, and maybe the SMCCBC is the Sth Melb City (Council?) Bowls Club ? Update : it was the SthMelb Cricket Club Bowls Club, and G C Clauscen was the President of the VBA – but why it’s here in St Kilda, I’m not sure, since the club was at the #LakesideOval at the other side of the park, presumably moved here in 1994 when the oval over there became a soccer ground. But why did the winners of the comp get a whole elaborate #DrinkingFountain and not just a silver platter or cup ? We may never know.
Update: ok thanks to @longsoxjohn I can say it was a club attached to the SM Cricket Club, so it was the South Melbourne Cricket Club Bowling Club (!). And a ‘magnificent drinking fountain’ won by the club was unveiled next to their green next to the South Melbourne lakeside oval on 10 Sept 1910. Then in 1994 as part of moving clubs around pre Grand Prix, athletics went there, and the club moved to the Harry Trott oval, next to where the fountain is now. Then in 2005 the club moved to … Casey! And left it behind. It really should be moved somewhere more visible now. Still don’t know why the prize was an enormous fountain though.
Storey of Melbourne 