Carrum is a suburb in Melbourne

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, Victoria

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, Australia

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, 33 km (21 mi) south-east from Melbourne's central business district

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. Its Local Government Area is the City of Kingston

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. At the 2006 Census, Carrum had a population of 3378.

Public schools in Carrum include Patterson River Secondary College

Patterson River Secondary College

Patterson River Secondary College is a high school in Carrum, Victoria, Australia. It used to be called Seaford Carrum High School.It is home to approximately 1,050 students and 100 teachers....

 and Carrum Primary School.

History

The suburb of Carrum is located on what was originally part of the Carrum Carrum swamp. The Carrum Carrum Swamp was drained in 1879 when the Patterson Cut (formed in 1876), and other drainage measures were undertaken to prevent flooding of the Eumemmering Creek, which overflowed into the Carrum Carrum Swamp. The swamp opening was mostly only open during the Winter months, so heavy Spring and Summer rains often caused flooding to properties on the edge of the swamp area. It also often caused flood damage as far north as Edithvale. The only remnants of the Carrum Carrum Swamp now form the Ramsar

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-listed Edithvale-Seaford Wetlands

Edithvale-Seaford Wetlands

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.

Carrum has its own railway station which opened in 1882, being the first Railway Station between Mordialloc and Frankston

Frankston, Victoria

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. Carrum Post Office opened on 1 February 1886, some time after the railway.

In 1924 the Carrum Bowling Club was founded; in 1937 the Carrum Surf Lifesaving Club was founded; in 1946 the Patterson River Motor Boat Club was founded at the original site of the Carrum Surf Lifesaving Club, which located to a new site 400 metres south; and in 1966 the Carrum Sailing Club was founded.

Sport

The Carrum Cricket Club was established in 1978 with its home ground in the heart of Carrum, in Graham Rd. The cricket club has won 16 senior Premierships since, initially in the FDCA and more recently in the Mornington Peninsula Cricket Association (MPCA). The club's President is Dale O'Neil and the club's champion player is Sean Austin, who has played in 8 1st XI Premierships and taken in excess of 1,000 wickets.

Carrum Football club had a proud History from 1911 until it folded due to Financial issues in 1996. The Carrum Lions club colours were originally blue and gold, players wore a blue jumper with a gold yolk, this was later change to the Fitzroy Maroon and Blue with a CFC and a Lion on the Jersey. At the same time the club song was changed from the original -
Blue and Gold, Blue and Gold, we will be premiers and you will be told. At the end of the season, we will show you the reason, why Carrum's on top of them all to the it's a grand old Flag used commonly by the Melbourne Demons.
Carrum Football Club competed in the various forms of local leagues including the Federal League as Chelsea - Carrum until 1914 when carrum went alone. The Carrum Lions won their first Premiership in the Federal League in 1921. They later joined the Peninsula District and later the Mornington Peninsula Football League and finally the Mornington Peninsula Nepean Football League where they won their Final Premiership in Division 2 in 1994.

• 1921 Premiers Carrum 7.17.59 d Hastings 7.4.46 played at Somerville
• 1933 Runners up to Rosebud 8.12.60 vs Carrum 5.10.40 Played at Dromana
• 1948 Premiers Carrum 17.7.109 d Rye 14.14.98 played at Mornington
• 1955 Premiers carrum 6.13.49 d Rye 4.10.34 Played at Dromana
• 1959 Premiers Carrum 11.14.80 d Hastings 12.7.79 Played at Mornington
• 1963 2nd 18 Premiers
• 1961 Runners Up Frankston 12.15.87 d Carrum 9.14.68 Played at Mornington
• 1965 Runners up Edithvale Aspendale 11.6.72 d Carrum 8.13.61 Played at Mornington
• 1966 Under 18s Premiers
• 1966 2nd 18 Runners Up
• 1968 2nd 18 Runners up
• 1967 Runners Up Chelsea 20.18.1938 d Carrum 11.21.87 Played at Mornington
• 1973 Premiers Carrum 12.14.86 d Hastings 4.17.41 Played at Mornington
• 1974 Premiers Carrum 11.17.83 d Mornington 11.13.79 Played at Mornington
• 1974 2nd 18 Premiers
• 1974 Under 18s Runners Up
• 1975 Runners Up Hastings 18.19.127 d Carrum 10.13.73 Played at Mornington
• 1976 Under 18s Runners up
• 1994 Premiers 2nd Division

League Best and Fairest include

1sts
2nds
L Wangaman 1959
Jack Jelly 1961
H Felmingham 1983

u18s/17s
1969 Gary Guy
1976 Robbie Laing
1982 Wayne Norrish

U16s/15s
1965 Paul Briggs
1969 Mick Collier
1971 Glenn Heath
1983 Jeff Lord

Noted players include Ron Stubbs who gained an All Australia Guernsey in 1981 playing for Tasmania. Eric Guy was a noted Tough man who played for St Kilda. His son Gary Guy played for Melbourne and Mark Csarnecki who played for Melbourne, Dandenong VFA and Frankston VFA.

Long Time Coaches included
Ivan Guy
Norm Stephens
Mal Lord
John Hoine

Carrum initially played its games at the oval at what is now Keast Park near the Riviera Hotel and moved to the Graham Road oval in the 20s. The Graham Road oval was renamed the Roy Dore reserve in 1985 in honor of long Time Carrum CFA Captain and Football club President, Player and Coach Roy Dore.

Education

Carrum is serviced by a government primary school, Carrum Primary School, which operates within Carrum and a government secondary school, Patterson River Secondary College, which operates from Seaford on the southern boundary of Patterson Lakes.

Local primary schools:

• Patterson Lakes Primary School
• Carrum Primary School(closest)
• Seaford Primary School
• Seaford North Primary School
• Bonbeach Primary School
• Chelsea Primary School
• Chelsea Heights Primary School

Local high schools:

• Patterson River Secondary College (Public)
• Frankston High School (Public)
• Mordialloc College (Public)
• Parkdale Secondary College (Public)
• St. Leonards College (Private, Cornish Campus)