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Yep, Angela Wynne would have loved the bench that’s been placed outside the very swimming pool that she had always dreamt Greystones would have one day.
Angela’s asset…
t’s the sort of simple, elegant bench that you could just imagine 
Angela Wynne wiling away a lazy afternoon on.
t’s the sort of simple, elegant bench that you could just imagine 
Angela Wynne wiling away a lazy afternoon on.The sun bouncing off her post-swim afterglow, that great big Angela smile on the face, coffee in the hand, with maybe just a dash of brandy to get the body temperature back up.
Yep, Angela Wynne would have loved the bench that’s been placed outside the very swimming pool that she had always dreamt Greystones would have one day. 
The fact that Angela was instrumental in making that dream come true is the reason that we all now have a brand new place to plonk our arses.
The fact that Angela was instrumental in making that dream come true is the reason that we all now have a brand new place to plonk our arses.It was back in the summer of 1966 when young lovebirds Kevin and Angela Wynne first arrived in Greystones, and it didn’t take long for the water-loving young mother to take Greystones’ swimming up a notch or two.
In the summer of 1969, the town’s first-ever water safety class took place down at the harbour, thanks to Angela.
That 1969 Water Safety class
A year later, teaming up with the equally water-loving Rosemarie Greenly, the duo decided to give the dormant Greystones Swimming Club the kiss of life, this 1924-founded organisation having been beached for quite a few years.
And for the next three decades, everything went pretty much swimmingly for Angela, Rosemarie and fellow club members Denis Frawley, Peggy Fallon, Mairin Harris and Christine O’Grady, with hundreds upon hundreds of kids finding their webbed feet in the Greystones Swimming Club, and plenty more joining those Saturday evening Wicklow Water Safety classes at Bray’s Presentation School.
The Greystones Swimming Club committee 2008
It was when the latter closed its doors for the very last time in 2000 that Angela and co recognised that their dream of a swimming pool had become that little bit more urgent.
Having pitched – and drawn up the plans – for an outdoor swimming pool as part of the old harbour, the unpredictability of the Irish weather convinced the newly-formed Greystones Swimming Pool Committee that having a roof over their heads might actually be a better idea.
And so the gang were soon going door to door, bucket in hand (hey, they had a lot of water to collect), asking each Greystones household to contribute €100.
The Wynne family…
