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Goodwin Park and railway tracks from Coolangatta train station, looking towards Tweed Heads, circa 1950, Photographer unknown

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Goodwin Park and railway tracks from Coolangatta train station, looking towards Tweed Heads, circa 1950

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Coolangatta Bowls Club is to the left near Scott Street. The brick building to the right is the public toilet. This area would become Chalk Street with the lifting of the railway tracks in the 1960sGoodwin Park was originally a tea tree swamp, fairly deep in places and used mostly by birds and mosquitoes. Old time residents always referred to the park as the 'Swamp'. Several unsuccessful attempts were made to reclaim the swamp and it was not until the late 1940s when the Coolangatta Council let out the contract to Thiess Brothers for the total reclaiming of the area that they were successful. The huge tractors trucks and scoops tore into the sand dunes of Greenmount and Coolangatta beaches and they soon had the 'Swamp' converted into the present Goodwin Park. The park was named after Sir John Goodwin, Governor of Queensland, 1926-1931

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