Leederville
Football oval and grandstand named for the club president behind a failed Commonwealth Games bid.
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Leederville, the inner Perth neighborhood around Leederville Oval, carries the story of Dick Fletcher, president of the West Perth Football Club from nineteen forty-six to nineteen sixty-two. In the late nineteen fifties he pitched this ground as Western Australia's future football headquarters and a stage for the nineteen sixty-two British Empire and Commonwealth Games, claiming it could hold a hundred thousand people. The guide follows his campaign and the rival grounds it competed against. Stand by the western grandstand, the one piece of that fight still bearing his name.
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