Floreat Park / City Beach croquet club was one of the more recent clubs to be established, opening in 1955.
Driven largely by the work of Marjorie Parry, a future association president, state team player and captain.
The club colours were Saxe Blue and Grey, later the description was changed to Baltic Blue and Grey.
Three courts and a small practice area were tucked into the area between the Chandler St embankment and the Bowling club, this all being across the road from where Floreat Forum now exists.
Pennant success was only achieved in the lower grades, never having a win in the top group.
To her credit one of the pennant ladies was still competing at the age of 91.
B grade 1962, 1966
C grade 1959
Div 2 in 1973, 1996, 2004, 2005
Div 3 in 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993
Div 4 in 1987, 2000, 2001
Floreat / City Beach was closed in 2005 and absorbed into the new Cambridge club in 2006.
The old site is now part of the refurbished Bowling club ( with an even more imposing retaining wall ! )
L to R Judy Hadley, Olive Sloan, Jean Grove, Joyce Baxter, Verna Waterhouse, Judy Cain, Dorothy Alexander
(The Australian Croquet Gazette Volume 40 Number 4)
Did you Know ….
that in 1957, Floreat had a membership of 70 and a waiting list of 70! (Yardline 1993)
