Carisbrook the early 2000s. Between 1884 and 2008 Carisbrook hosted 252 first-class cricket matches, including, between 1955 and 1998, 10 Test cricket matches. It was also the home ground of Otago United in the New Zealand Football Championship, which moved to the lower-capacity Sunnyvale Park for the 2008–09 season. The ground's final regular capacity was around 30,000, but has hosted crowds as high as 42,000 in the past with temporary seating. Until 1998 the sides of the Caversham bypass motorway allowed a free view of the ground and was known as the "Scotsman's Grandstand". Occasionally trains would slow to a crawl
Carisbrook, Lane Cove Carisbrook, Lane Cove Carisbrook is an heritage-listed former private residence and now house and local history museum at 334 Burns Bay Road, Lane Cove in the Lane Cove Council local government area of New South Wales, Australia. It was built during 1884. The property is owned by the Lane Cove Council. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999. In 1980 Lane Cove Council sought a Permanent Conservation Order for Carisbrook. In view of its heritage significance a Permanent Conservation Order was gazetted oover Carisbrook on 26 June 1981. A single-storey, sandstone house,