# Queenborough Oval > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Queenborough_Oval > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Queenborough_Oval.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queenborough_Oval > Source revision: 1348475693 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Sports ground in Hobart, Tasmania This article includes a list of general references, but it lacks sufficient corresponding inline citations. Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations. (December 2009) (Learn how and when to remove this message) Queenborough Oval "The Bay" Interactive map of Queenborough Oval Location Sandy Bay, Tasmania Owner Hobart City Council Operator Hobart City Council Capacity 8,000[1] Surface Grass Construction Opened 1916 Tenants Hutchins Football Club - Old Scholars Football Association South Hobart/Sandy Bay Cricket Club - TCA **Queenborough Oval** is the home headquarters of the Hutchins Old Boys Football Club and the [South Hobart/Sandy Bay Cricket Club](/source/South_Hobart%2FSandy_Bay_Cricket_Club). The ground is a former [Tasmanian Football League](/source/Tasmanian_Football_League) venue, being the former home of the [Sandy Bay Football Club](/source/Sandy_Bay_Football_Club) (now defunct) from 1945 to 1997. After the demise of Sandy Bay in 1997, Hutchins moved to the ground during the 1998 season after vacating their former home ground of 43 years (Hutchins War Memorial Oval) just up the street from Queenborough. It is located on the corner of Nelson Road and Peel Street [Sandy Bay](/source/Sandy_Bay%2C_Tasmania), 5 km (3.1 mi) south of the [Hobart](/source/Hobart) [CBD](/source/Central_business_district). ## History Queenborough Oval was originally part of the Queenborough Regional Cemetery, a 12-acre (49,000 m2) site opened in 1873 and owned by Sandy Bay businessmen George Luckman and Stephen Large who purchased the site for £280 as a means of good business enterprise so that the residents in the Queenborough area could bury their dead some distance from their homes. The cemetery originally occupied the site from the edge of Sandy Bay Road (across from where [Wrest Point Hotel Casino](/source/Wrest_Point_Hotel_Casino) stands today), extending the whole way up the hills of Nelson Road to the edge Churchill Avenue (where [The Hutchins School](/source/The_Hutchins_School) exists today). By 1913 the Queenborough Cemetery Company had run out of money to maintain the cemetery and the entire site lay derelict until the [Hobart City Council](/source/City_of_Hobart) purchased the site in late-1915 through an Act of Parliament and began building sports grounds in 1916 in the lower portion off Sandy Bay Road (now known as Lower Queenborough) and the current Queenborough Oval above that on the corner of Peel Street, with the remainder of the cemetery being used until it was closed in 1934 and was later dismantled in 1961 for the construction of [The Hutchins School](/source/The_Hutchins_School) site.[2] Across the road from the Peel Street end of Queenborough Oval, the headstones of many of the dead still remain in a small, well maintained remembrance garden. Football at Queenborough began in 1916 with the ground being the new home to the Sandy Bay Rovers Football Club that played in the Queenborough Football Association at that time, prior to that, Rovers played at Lord's Paddock off Lord Street, Sandy Bay. Sandy Bay Rovers became defunct prior to World War Two and after the four-year break in football due to the War, the most notable tenant of the ground, [Sandy Bay Football Club](/source/Sandy_Bay_Football_Club) was formed in January 1945 and made the ground its home in the [Tasmanian Football League](/source/Tasmanian_Football_League). The quaint ground received some modifications in 1965 when a grandstand (later named the Palfreyman Stand after the Sandy Bay legend) was built and the clubroom building adjacent and terracing at the Peel Street end was also built. Queenborough Oval was well known in Tasmanian football for the long row of hedges which extended along the perimeter fence along the Nelson Road side of the ground and the entire perimeter fence at the Peel Street end, known as "The Hedge End", the hedges were often inhabited by scores of children on matchdays playing in them. Despite such a picturesque setting Queenborough Oval's shortcomings as a major football ground in [TFL](/source/Tasmanian_Football_League) football were becoming obvious by the late 1970s with respect to the lack of room to be able to extend and further develop the ground for the future. By 1980 *[The Mercury](/source/The_Mercury_(Hobart))* newspaper were headlining calls for Sandy Bay to vacate Queenborough Oval and move to [North Hobart Oval](/source/North_Hobart_Oval) or move to the Kingborough Region to the south of Hobart, due to the ground's small playing surface and somewhat inadequate spectator and player facilities, as poor crowds continued to dog the venue. These calls were to continue until Sandy Bay finally moved away to play at [North Hobart Oval](/source/North_Hobart_Oval) in 1983, but then moved back to Queenborough part-time for the next two seasons before returning permanently in 1986. By the early 1990s *The Mercury* once again had Queenborough in the firing line, with an article titled "Queenborough Is The Pits!" appearing in 1990, Sandy Bay then moved back and forth between [North Hobart Oval](/source/North_Hobart_Oval) and Queenborough Oval on several occasions until Sandy Bay's demise at the end of the 1997 [TFL Statewide League](/source/Tasmanian_Football_League) season. The final TFL match staged at Queenborough Oval was on Sunday, 27 July 1997 where a crowd of 1,333 people saw [Sandy Bay](/source/Sandy_Bay_Football_Club) host [Glenorchy](/source/Glenorchy_Football_Club) to which the Bay were handed a 101-point defeat, 21.13 (139) to 5.8 (38) by Glenorchy in a sad end to their 53-year history at the ground. On 25 May 1968, the [touring New Zealand All Blacks](/source/1968_New_Zealand_rugby_union_tour_of_Australia_and_Fiji), in their second match on tour, played Tasmania at Queenborough Oval, winning 74–0. The All Blacks, captained by Sir Brian Lochore, later coach of the first team to win the Rugby World Cup in 1987, scored 18 tries that day of which only seven were converted. The captain of the Tasmanian Rugby Team was John Donaldson of the university-Associates Club. Queenborough also hosted an international soccer friendly between Tasmania and touring Welsh club [Cardiff City](/source/Cardiff_City_F.C.) on 8 June 1968, Cardiff won the match 5–1 in front of a crowd of 4,500. Today, Queenborough Oval is now used by Hutchins Old Boys Football Club in the [Old Scholars Football Association](/source/Old_Scholars_Football_Association), who moved from their former Hutchins Memorial Oval base to Queenborough in 1998. The ground has hosted finals in that competition over several years, along with STJFL football as well as being the home to the [South Hobart/Sandy Bay Sharks](/source/South_Hobart%2FSandy_Bay_Cricket_Club) in the [Tasmanian Cricket Association](/source/Tasmanian_Cricket_Association) ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["Queensborough Oval"](https://www.austadiums.com/stadiums/stadiums.php?id=95). *Austadiums*. Retrieved 16 November 2019. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** "Sandy Bay" by Nicola Goc (1998) (p.p 239 and 240) ## External links Wikimedia Commons has media related to [Queenborough Oval](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Queenborough_Oval). - [More photos of Queenborough Oval at the Licorice Gallery](http://licoricegallery.com/home/index.php?option=com_gallery2&Itemid=28&g2_itemId=9997) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20110713204047/http://licoricegallery.com/home/index.php?option=com_gallery2&Itemid=28&g2_itemId=9997) 13 July 2011 at the [Wayback Machine](/source/Wayback_Machine) - [South Hobart/Sandy Bay Sharks Website](http://www.sharkscricket.com/article.php?article_id=1&group_id=) [42°54′14″S 147°19′59″E / 42.904°S 147.333°E / -42.904; 147.333](https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Queenborough_Oval¶ms=42.904_S_147.333_E_) v t e Hobart landmarks Buildings and structures 5–7 Sandy Bay Road Cadbury's Chocolate Factory Calvary Hospital Cascade Brewery Canopus Hill Observatory Davey Street Congregational Church General Post Office Hobart Cenotaph Holy Trinity Church Hope and Anchor Tavern Hotel Grand Chancellor Hydro-Electric Commission Building Icon Complex Iron Pot Lighthouse Incat Ingle Hall Kelly's Steps Hobart Mosque Mount Pleasant Radio Observatory NAB House Nyrstar Hobart The Old Woolstore Apartment Hotel Hobart Private Hospital Princes Wharf Queen Alexandra Hospital Railway Roundabout Royal Hobart Hospital Taroona Shot Tower St David's Cathedral St John's Anglican Church St Mary's Cathedral Hobart Synagogue Trafalgar Building Institutions Anglesea Barracks Australian Antarctic Division College of Arts, Law and Education Derwent Barracks Government House The Hedberg Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies Menzies Institute for Medical Research Parliament House Parliament Square State Library Supreme Court Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music Town Hall Entertainment Avalon Theatre City Hall Federation Concert Hall MyState Bank Arena Odeon Theatre Royal Hobart Showground State Cinema Theatre Royal Wrest Point Hotel Casino Galleries and museums Campbell Street Gaol Cascades Female Factory Grote Reber Museum Lady Franklin Gallery Maritime Museum Tasmania Mawson's Huts Replica Museum Moonah Arts Centre Museum of Old & New Art Salamanca Arts Centre Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery Tasmanian Transport Museum Sports Baskerville Raceway Bellerive Yacht Club Clarence Aquatic Centre Derwent Sailing Squadron Domain Athletic Centre Doone Kennedy Hobart Aquatic Centre Elwick Racecourse Empire Couriers Park MyState Bank Arena Macquarie Point Stadium Hobart International Tennis Centre KGV Oval KGV Park Kingborough Sports Centre Ninja Stadium North Hobart Oval Queenborough Oval Hobart Real Tennis Club Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania Tasmanian Hockey Centre TCA Ground Wentworth Park Transport Hobart Airport Bowen Bridge Bridgewater Bridge Brooke Street Pier Cambridge Aerodrome Constitution Dock Hobart Bus Mall Jordan River Bridge McGees Bridge Sorell Causeway Tasman Bridge Victoria Dock Nature and parks Alum Cliffs Ancanthe Park Bonorong Wildlife Sanctuary Botanical Gardens East Risdon Nature Reserve Flagstaff Hill Franklin Square Glenorchy Art and Sculpture Park Gunners Quoin Hobart Rivulet Hobart Zoo and Aquarium Kunanyi / Mount Wellington Moorilla Estate Mount Direction Mount Nelson Queens Domain St David's Park Precincts Cat and Fiddle Arcade Eastlands Shopping Centre Channel Court Elizabeth Street Mall Macquarie Point Northgate Shopping Centre Salamanca Sullivans Cove Beaches and islands Bellerive Beach Betsey Island Blackmans Bay Beach Bruny Island Clifton Beach Frederick Henry Bay Hinsby Beach Howrah Beach Iron Pot Kingston Beach Lords Beach Long Beach Nutgrove Beach Taroona Beach --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Queenborough Oval](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queenborough_Oval) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queenborough_Oval?action=history)). 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