Other hinterland images included:

• Annual Sports Day, Eudlo, 1969

• Gnat car racing at the showgrounds, Nambour, 1963

• Grass skiing down the slopes, Woombye, 1981

• Cars racing at the speedway track, Yandina, 1975

• Burnside Soccer Club in action, Burnside, 1983

• Show jumping event, Eudlo, 1973

• Convent Sports Ball Games, Nambour, 1968.

From a 1977 sack race in Kenilworth to a 1965 wheelbarrow derby through the main street of Nambour, the 2025 Sunshine Coast Heritage Calendar certainly lives up to its theme, ‘Sports through the Ages’.

The $6 calendar is available across the region and will make a cherished stocking filler for anyone who loves a bit of nostalgia.

Sunshine Coast Mayor Rosanna Natoli said the calendar featured a wonderful collection of personal photographs alongside images from Council’s Picture Sunshine Coast collection.

“The personal images and memories provide a window into the real story of everyday life on the Sunshine Coast over the ages,” Mayor Natoli said.

“The everyday lives, holidays, memories and photographs we all hold in our family albums tell a broad story of what the Sunshine Coast was, and is, like.

Images in the calendar have been tinted with colour, a technique in keeping with the tradition of hand-colouring monochrome photographs which began in 1900.

The calendar is on sale at Council libraries and customer contact centres and is available to view at heritage.sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au

Five community members received framed canvas prints of their images as a special keepsake for their winning contribution.

Hinterland Competition Winners included Lenore Meldrum for her photo of Lennox Meldrum competing in the Sack Race, Kenilworth, 1977 and Nambour Museum who shared a photograph of the Group Tunnel Ball Team from Nambour Rural School’, Nambour, 1949.