A public meeting of interested community members met at the Woodhouse Grove Methodist Church Hall on the 14th August, 1968. The Mayor and two Councillors were in attendance, along with 100 members of the community.
All Club Special Meetings were held in the hall until the clubhouse was completed at the end of 1973.

  The Club's tender to erect four courts was accepted by the City of Box Hill (now Whitehorse) on the 17th April, 1969. The unofficial opening of the courts took place on 6th June, 1971. Much of the work on site preparation was performed by volunteers. At a later date 200 bluestone pitchers were purchased from Council at 50 cents each to form the embankment around the front courts.

  Frank Sedgman and Neil Fraser attended the official opening of the Club but the actual date is elusive, as is the name of the person photographed with Frank.
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  Many fundraising events were held, including card and Bingo nights, social tournaments, BBQs, a Barn Dance, football competition cards, theatre nights, even a smoke night, and a whisky sampling run by the mid-week ladies that raised $25.
A major event was an Art and Craft show that had 277 entries and raised $450.
The mid-week ladies were very active in fundraising, with tournaments and special events such as cake stalls, the whisky sampling and a candle demonstration, to name a few.

  Foundations were poured for the clubhouse during April, 1973. It was completed in October, and the verandah added the following month after further fundraising. Prior to this, the nearby scout hall was utilised.

  A levy was imposed to finance the building of the front two courts in April, 1975.

  Construction began in October, 1975.

  Tower lighting was installed on the front two courts late in 1980. The lighting was modernised to envirolighting and extended to two other courts in 2004.

  As at October 2008, the Club is coping well with water restrictions and the courts are in fine order. Our membership stands at 120 and, after a decline with the onset of drought conditions, is now rising steadily.

               MYSTERY SOLVED.
Frank Sedgman's companion is John Wilson, the Club's second secretary and designer of the club logo seen on the cuff links above. Thanks to Life Member, Geoff Handley, for the info.