Wynnum Wading Pool which has a playground and water park and the Wynnum Jetty, there is a man-made beach called Pandanus Beach.
Sports and recreational activities
![Wynnum 1929](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Wynnum_1929.jpg)
Wynnum has a number of long-established sporting clubs, such as
Wynnum Seagulls Rugby League Club,
Wynnum Golf Club,
Wynnum District SC
Wynnum Wolves Football Club, Wolves FC, or WDSC Wolves FC, is a semi professional football club with home grounds in Boundary Street, Tingalpa, Brisbane, Australia. Founded in 1921, the club has a long tradition and currently competes in the ...
(Wolves FC Soccer Club - since 1921),
Wynnum Manly District Cricket Club
The Wynnum Manly District Cricket Club is a cricket club representing Wynnum, Queensland and Manly, Queensland, Australia. They have teams in the Brisbane Grade Cricket
Queensland Premier Cricket is the top cricket competition played in Queen ...
,
Wynnum Bugs Rugby Union Club
The Wynnum Rugby Union Club, known as Wynnum Bugs, is a rugby union football club located in Wynnum, in Queensland, Australia. The original Wynnum club was one of the founding teams of the Brisbane Premiership (now Queensland Premier Rugby) that ...
,
Bayside United Soccer Club and
Wynnum Vikings Australian Rules Football Club.
The Queensland Women’s
Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...
Association was founded in the 1920s, but only began formally in 1929 with the Wynnum Women’s Cricket team. In this team Edna Newfong and Mabel Crouch were chosen as players, the first Aboriginal women to represent Australia in any sport. It was a major achievement in the 1930s as
Aboriginal women had to face both racist and sexist disadvantages, all the while being under the control of the ''
'', which legally restricted civil rights to Aboriginal people.
Wynnum Esplanade hosts Wynnum parkrun every Saturday - a free weekly walk/run which attracts many participants. Recreational clubs include the Wynnum Manly Leagues Club and the RSL. The Wynnum foreshore is a popular swimming and picnic spot for Brisbane families especially at weekends.
Transport
![Wynnum Railway Station](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/36/Wynnum_Railway_Station.jpg)
Wynnum is served by three stations on the
Cleveland railway line
The Cleveland railway line is a suburban railway line extending east-southeast from Brisbane, the state capital of Queensland, Australia. It is part of the Queensland Rail City network.
History
Following the opening of the Wooloongabba ...
.
Wynnum North railway station,
Wynnum railway station and
Wynnum Central railway station
Wynnum Central railway station is located on the Cleveland line in Queensland, Australia. It is one of three stations serving the Brisbane suburb of Wynnum, the other two being Wynnum and Wynnum North.
Wynnum Central was opened in 1898
Histor ...
provide access to regular
Queensland Rail City network
The Queensland Rail Citytrain network, provides urban, suburban and interurban electric passenger railway services in South East Queensland, Australia.
History
The first railway in Queensland did not run to Brisbane, but ran from Ipswich to ...
services to Brisbane and
Cleveland
Cleveland ( ), officially the City of Cleveland, is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County. Located in the northeastern part of the state, it is situated along the southern shore of Lake Erie, across the U.S. ...
.
Notable residents
The following were either born or have lived at some time in Wynnum:
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Quentin Bryce
Dame Quentin Alice Louise Bryce, (née Strachan; born 23 December 1942) is an Australian academic who served as the 25th governor-general of Australia from 2008 to 2014. She is the first woman to have held the position, and was previously the ...
- former Governor General of Australia
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Kay Danes - human rights activist, memoirist
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Keith Rayner - former Anglican Archbishop of Melbourne
'King Sandy'Kerwalli (aka Gairballie) - Elder of the
Jagera People
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Samantha Riley
Samantha Linette Pearl Riley (born 13 November 1972) is an Australian breaststroke swimmer of Aboriginal descent who competed for Australia in the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona and the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, winning three medals ...
- Olympic swimming medallist
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Kyle Sandilands
Kyle Dalton Sandilands (born 10 June 1971) is an Australian radio host and television personality. He is currently the co-host, with Jackie O, of the weekday morning radio program '' The Kyle and Jackie O Show'' on Sydney's radio station KIIS ...
- radio host
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Stacey Thomson - television host
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John Manifold
John Streeter Manifold (21 April 1915 – 19 April 1985) was an Australian poet and critic. He was born in Melbourne, into a well known Camperdown family. He was educated at Geelong Grammar School, and read modern languages at Jesus College, C ...
- folklorist and poet
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Dorothy Hewett
Dorothy Coade Hewett (21 May 1923 – 25 August 2002) was an Australian playwright, poet and author, and a romantic feminist icon. In writing and in her life, Hewett was an experimenter. As her circumstances and beliefs changed, she progressed ...
- author
Population growth
References
Further reading
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External links
Brisbites: Suburban Sites: Wynnum (via Pandora)University of Queensland: Queensland Places: WynnumWynnum-Manly History: A Virtual Heritage Trail (Brisbane Stories)Your Brisbane Past and PresentMabel Crouch (Campbell) and Edna Newfong (Crouch). Queensland Women Cricketing Greats
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