After 50 years of volunteering, Frank Stuart is retiring from his role as maintenance and grounds person at the Braidwood Tennis Club. Frank rolled into Braidwood on an AJS motor cycle with sidecar in 1952 and joined the tennis club fifty years ago and is a Life Member. Frank has been an active member of the club and coached junior tennis for many years, until a few years ago.
He has lots of interesting anecdotes and memories of the Braidwood tennis club, and has written down the history of tennis in Braidwood. The Club was originally called the Wanderers Tennis Club as the courts were moved several times. In 1920 the first courts were at the preschool site, and then two in Elrington Street. Then they moved to Ambulance Station site, then to Coghill St. The current site was acquired from the Council in 1939 at a rate of one shilling per year. The first two courts were built there by members who cleared the scrub with a scoop drawn by a draught horse. Granite was then carted from the creek at the "stepping stones" (end of Ryrie St) and leveled by a steel tyre dragged by a horse.
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