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unusual facts about Subiaco-Floreat Cricket Club


Subiaco-Floreat Cricket Club

The club's main ground is Floreat Oval, on the corner of Oceanic Drive and Ulster Road, Floreat.


1975 WANFL season

David Parkin, now cleared from Hawthorn, plays in the reserves whilst coaching Subiaco’s league team.

Subiaco send Peter Burton out a winner, as the retiring ruckman dominates Swans’ danger players Sidebottom and Bob Beecroft.

1988 WAFL season

Claremont and Subiaco continued to dominate the WAFL this year under coaches Gerard Neesham and Haydn Bunton Jr. (who in 1987 was rumoured to be going to Fitzroy as a replacement for David Parkin) but this time the Lions took the honours with their second convincing Grand Final win in three seasons.

Andrea Mason

Mason is the daughter of Ben Mason, an Aboriginal Christian pastor involved in the founding of the Aboriginal Evangelical Fellowship, she was born in Subiaco, Western Australia.

Arnold Pannartz and Konrad Sweynheim

In 1467, the two printers left Subiaco and settled at Rome, where the brothers Pietro and Francesco Massimo placed a house at their disposal.

Beau Waters

A week after he had recovered from the injury, he was hit by a taxi he was trying to flag down after a night out in Subiaco.

Camellia, New South Wales

The railway station that opened here in 1885 was originally called Subiaco, but it caused confusion because it was also the name of an estate and mansion on the opposite side of Parramatta River at Rydalmere, built by Hannibal Macarthur, the nephew of John Macarthur.

City of Subiaco

AmpFest, Youth and music festival overseen by the City of Subiaco

Clifford Sadlier

They settled at Subiaco, Western Australia from where Sadlier, then employed as a commercial traveller, enlisted on 26 May 1915.

Francesco Sampietro

Among his many works: a Madonna for the Sanctuary of Bozzolo (near Garlasco); Santi Maurizio e Lazzaro for the chapel of the Hospital of Sanzo; a Christ among the Children for the asylum of infants founded by signor Niccola Traversi in Lomellina; The Delirium of Ermengarda from the play Adelchi by Alessandro Manzoni; Death of Count Rosso; A Prayer at Subiaco.

Frank Stanford

Father Nicholas Fuhrmann, Stanford's former English teacher and longtime friend, has noted that Stanford was, during this period, visiting his mother (who lived in Subiaco) more often than had seemed usual.

Haydn Bunton, Jr.

In 1984, Bunton junior returned to his former haunt of Subiaco, which as a result of the loss of such players as Mike Fitzpatrick had endured another bleak era over the previous nine seasons.

Heavy Weight Champ

Beginning with the few post "Grey Filters" tracks that had been written, the band proceeded to work on album material at an upstairs studio in the central Perth suburb of Subiaco.

Innocent Bystanders

In 1983 the band released a cassette entitled Live at the Subi, recorded at the Subiaco Hotel with a mobile recording truck.

Mix 94.5

In March 2007 Mix 94.5 and sister station 92.9 moved from premises at 283 Rokeby Road, Subiaco, Western Australia to a new purpose built broadcast centre at 450 Roberts Road, Subiaco.

Mount Kokeby, Western Australia

The town name is the product of a misspelling of Rokeby (after Henry Montagu, the 6th Baron Rokeby of Armagh, after whom Rokeby Road in Subiaco is also named).

Mucky Duck Bush Band

In 1982 they performed a musical Moondyne Joe (about the bushranger of that name) at the Regal Theatre in Subiaco.

Subiaco railway station

The station is located close to Subiaco's most well-known landmarks including the Regal Theatre, Subiaco Hotel, Station Street Markets, Subiaco Oval and Rokeby Road.

Subiaco, Lazio

In 1891, a Benedictine abbey founded earlier in western Arkansas, United States, changed its name to Subiaco as part of an effort to more closely align its teachings and practices to those of the famous abbeys of the Italian namesake.

Tim Gossage

In November 2006 Gossage was appointed coach of the Subiaco Lions Colts (under 19) team taking over from Scott Watters who became coach of Subiaco's league team.

Tusculan Papacy

The Counts of Tusculum were centered at Tuscolo, above Frascati, protected by an ancient fortress in Borghetto; their principle monasteries were Grottaferrata and Subiaco; they also controlled many churches and religious houses in and around Rome.

University of Mary

The two apartments are named after the Benedictine heritage sites Subiaco (women's) and Monte Cassino (men's).

WAtoday

It was formerly located in the same building as Fairfax Radio 6PR, at 169 Hay Street, East Perth, but is now based in Subiaco.

West Leederville, Western Australia

The suburb backs onto Subiaco Oval, the home of football in Western Australia, and St John of God Hospital Subiaco.

Wilhelm Marstrand

He returned to Italy several times, the last visit being in 1869, and when in Rome he spent summer months each year in the hill towns Olevano Romano, Civitella and Subiaco.


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