At the end of World War II, golf was gone from Alexandra Park and East Albury Cricket Club (EACC) was formed in October 1945.
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East Albury Rovers Football Club (EARFC) formed in 1946, playing at the showground in the Albury & District League.
1948 saw Council outlay £75 for a tin shed at Alexandra Park, Newmarket Cricket Club formed and a second concrete wicket was laid at Alexandra Park Number 2.
In June 1949, EARFC, now in the Hume League, played Burrumbuttock in their first match at the park.
A brick toilet block, electricity, water, and a tin shed had been provided. Two rudimentary flood lights were installed for training.
In 1950, cricket grounds numbers 3 and 4 were added. As with number 2, none had any facilities other than a concrete wicket.
In 1952, a turf wicket was laid at Number 1 oval and hockey arrived. They used two fields on number 1 oval and four on number 2.
It was not long before the Hockey Association acquired an army hut for their headquarters. It was located at number 2 oval.
East Albury/Newmarket Progress Association was granted land by the council in Short Street for tennis courts.
They were ready for play in June 1953.
The first Easter hockey carnival was staged in April 1954.
When the council began excavating enormous trenches in the early 1960s across the northern half of the park, few realised what lay ahead.
For nearly 10 years, this was to be the Albury tip. It was not until 1978, after backfilling, leveling and allowing years for the land to settle, that the full concept of a large sporting complex was revealed.
An athletics track was established in 1978 and in 1981, a new concept in building a sports oval was seen.
This entailed laying thousands of metres of gravel over drainage trenches before topsoil was installed.
In 2020, this is the home of EACC and the Steamers' Rugby Union Club.
As a project for Australia's bicentenary in 1988, the Hockey Association established a synthetic hockey field on the old Number 1. This was upgraded in 1992.
With a massive outlay, the athletics track was upgraded in March 1997.
Today, Ian Barker Field in the north-east corner of the park, is the location of a number of soccer pitches, while the south-east corner has an enclosed off leash dog park.
Many hectares have been lost along the western boundary for a freeway and bicycle path corridor.
This is the third in a series of posthumous articles by Joe Wooding
