Haberfield Tennis Centre

154A Hawthorne Parade, Haberfield is the location of the NSW Catholic Lawn Tennis Association tennis courts that was established in 1902 by Stanton’s Haberfield Proprietary Limited. Officially opened on Saturday 4 April 1903, the Haberfield Club, according to ‘The Advertiser’, “has been formed to provide a rendezvous for the members of the Haberfield Estate”, where only residents of the estate were eligible for membership.

In 1915 however the illustrious club was renamed the ‘Haberfield Lawn Tennis and Recreation Club Ltd’, comprising four grass courts and the club pavilion. The original pavilion was fit with a large main room measuring fifty by forty feet, fit with dressing rooms and offices, and in 1905 and 1909 respectively was used for the first church services for the Anglican and Catholic congregations in Haberfield.