The Brunswick Street Oval, currently known as WT Peterson Community Oval, also known as the Fitzroy Cricket Ground is a cricket and Australian rules football ground located in Edinburgh Gardens in Fitzroy North, Victoria. The ground was the home of Fitzroy Football Club in the Victorian Football Association from 1883-97, and the home of the club in the Victorian Football League from 1897 until 1966, with the last game being played there on Saturday 20 August, 1966 against St Kilda, a game which the Lions lost by 84 points. Fitzroy then began playing its home games at Princes Park.
The ground was unused for football for 27 years, before it began to be used by the University Reds football club in the Victorian Amateur Football Association in 1991. In 1997, the Fitzroy Football Club merged with the Brisbane Bears, and the remaining Victorian members of the club began to be based out of the Brunswick St Oval, eventually merging with the University Reds to form the Fitzroy Reds Football Club, which is now based out of the oval. The main grandstand is listed on the Victorian Heritage Register.
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