ABERFELDIE
Aberfeldie is a suburb 9km north-west of Melbourne,. Its Local Government Area is the City of Moonee Valley. At the 2006 Census, Aberfeldie had a population of 3455. Scotsman James Robertson named his property Aberfeldie, located on the corner of Aberfeldie St and Park Crs, after a place in Scotland. When the property was sold in 1888 it became the name of the suburb. The area has tended to attract families, with its abundance of parks, sporting facilities and the Maribyrnong River. There is a range of detached housing from inter war Californian Bungalows to post war dwellings.
ABBOTSFORD
Abbotsford, a residential and industrial suburb, is in the eat of Collingwood, between Hoddle Street and the Yarra River. It was named after a property owned by John Orr in Kew, the bordering suburb over the Yarra River. In the 1850s a land auction for the "Abbotsford township" was promoted, the site being between the Convent of the Good Shepherd and Johnston Street. It was the most attractive part, on the river bank, as west of it was the low-lying Collingwood flat. The western side of Abbotsford has the railway line from Collingwood to Heidelberg (1888) and Princes Bridge to Collingwood (1901). The town hall and other civic buildings (1880s) are next to the railway station.
Like many of Melbourne's inner suburbs, there are few detached houses in Abbotsford. Residential streets are often narrow, and some streets are leafy. A large proportion of houses in Abbotsford are subject to Heritage overlay provisions, which protect their heritage value. The older residential sections consist mostly of working class single-storey Victorian terrace houses.
Abbotsford is a prominent early industrial area and as a result, there are several outstanding examples of industrial buildings. The most prominent is Denton Hat Mills, a large turn of the century industrial complex designed by architect William Pitt in polychrome brick in 1888. It was the home to Brush Fabrics until 2004, when plans for conversion to apartments were implemented. Work on the conversion began in mid-2007 and was completed in December 2009. Prominent hotels include the Carringbush Hotel. It was built in 1889 and was originally named the Friendly Societies Hotel.
AIRPORT WEST
Airport West is a suburb 14km north-west of Melbourne. At the 2006 Census, Airport West had a population of 6660. Bounded by the Calder Freeway to the south, the Tullamarine Freeway to the east, and the Western Ring Road to the north west, Airport West is so named for its position to the west of Essendon Airport, Melbourne's first general airport now used for light planes, charter and freight since the opening in 1970 of Melbourne Airport located to the north of the suburb. It has the distinction of being the only locality in Australia which does not itself contain an airport to contain the word "Airport."
Notable residents:
James Birrell, architect
Hayden Kennedy, AFL umpire
Simon Madden, VFL player
Justin Madden, Victorian State Minister and VFL/AFL player
Ashley Naylor, musician
Mark 'Bomber' Thompson, VFL/AFL player and coach
ALAMEIN
Alamein is the name of a railway station on the Alamein line. Alamein was the last station to be built on what is now the line of the same name. It was built in 1948 on the reservation of the ill-fated Outer Circle line, the section on which Alamein is now located being closed to all traffic in 1895. The station serviced a new Housing Commission estate that had been opened up to house people that had displaced after the Second World War. The station still bears the name of the estate, which in turn had been named after the battlefield in North Africa.
The Alamein railway line serves part of the City of Boroondara, to the east of the Melbourne central business district. It has six stations and branches from the Belgrave and Lilydale lines at Camberwell station. The line is operated as a shuttle service between Camberwell and Alamein stations during off-peak periods, while trains run the whole distance to Flinders Street Station during peak hours. What is now known as the Alamein line was opened as the Outer Circle Railway between 1890 and 1891. The segment still in use today was opened on 24 March 1890.
Albert Park
ALBERT PARK
Albert Park, a residential area with a large regional park and lake, is 3 km. south of Melbourne. It was named after Prince Albert, the Consort of Queen Victoria. There are two Albert Parks, one the large recreational parkland and the other the adjoining residential area which spread southwards from South Melbourne's Emerald Hill in the 1870s and 1880s. The parkland was like much of the land in the Yarra delta, swampy, grassed with sparse tree cover, and with occasional lagoons, some quite large. The lagoon in Albert Park was one of those. The land was used for seasonal grazing, recreational hunting, rifle practice at the Butts (the original name of the Albert Park railway station) and for military training manoeuvres between the Victoria Barracks, St. Kilda Road, and the battery on Port Phillip Bay at the end of Kerford Road. In 1857 a railway line was opened through Albert Park from Melbourne to St. Kilda. A short-lived rail loop from Windsor to St. Kilda (1859-62) passed through the south of the parkland. On 22 July, 1862, the parkland was temporarily reserved from sale, and permanently reserved two years later.
The suburb of Albert Park extends from the St Vincent Gardens to Beaconsfield Parade and Mills Street. It was settled residentially as an extension of Emerald Hill (South Melbourne). It is characterised by wide streets, heritage buildings, terraced houses, open air cafes, parks and significant stands of mature exotic trees, including Canary Island Date Palm and London Planes. Since 1996 Albert Park has been home to the Australian Grand Prix.
Notable residents:
Roy Cazaly (13 January 1893-10 October 1963), Australian rules football legend (birthplace).
Ernest McIntyre (19 April 1921-10 April 2003), Australian rules footballer (birthplace).
Hilda and Laurel Armstrong. 'The Vegemite Girls', sisters who coined the name of the iconic Australian food spread in 1923
Noel Jack (1913- 1986). Artist and revolutionary(Counihan).
William Scott (1920-1975) tenor (Herbert).
Patricia Irene (1911-1990). journalist (Jarrett).
ALBION
Albion is 13 km west from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Brimbank. At the 2006 Census, Albion had a population of 3763. A subdivision of Sunshine, it is bordered on the north by the Western Highway, the south by Forrest St, the west by Kororoit Creek and the east by Anderson Rd. The name 'Albion' derives from the Albion Quarrying Company which operated in the area. The disused Albion quarry, accessed from Hulett St, was the location for AC/DC's Jailbreak music video.
The area was originally called Darlington, from at least 1860 to about 1890. The area originally known as Albion was directly west of Duke Street, as can be noted by the many streets there named after English counties and placenames - Albion being an ancient name for the island of Great Britain. Albion station opened on 5 January 1860 as Albion and Darlington but closed a year later. It was not until 1919 that a new station was opened on the same site with the name Albion station.
Albion has many period homes such as California bungalows and 1940s weatherboard houses many of which were built by H. V. McKay as part of his Sunshine Estate Garden city community. Kororoit Creek provides the western border for Albion. Along it runs the Kororoit Creek Trail which runs all the way southwards to meet the Federation Trail in Brooklyn. Stony Creek lies on the eastern edge of Albion, close to Anderson Road. As of 2013, the creek's environmental state west of Anderson Rd is very poor as it has long been converted to nothing more than a concrete stormwater drain for this particular section of its course.
ALPHINGTON
Alphington is immediately north of the Yarra River, some 7 km. north-east of Melbourne. On its west is Fairfield and on its east is Ivanhoe. Farm-size land sales in Alphington coincided with those in the Northcote and Fairfield district in 1840. Most of Alphington was bought by three persons. Most easterly, Thomas Wills bought 71 ha. running down to the river where the Latrobe golf club is now situated. He built the "Lucerne" homestead (1840-1960), but soon disposed of it and built the grander "Willsmere" on the other side of the river in Kew. The westerly purchaser was the Howitt brothers, important Port Phillip and post gold-rush personalities. Howitt thought the "situation delicious and the slopes most graceful." The purchaser of the middle portion was Charles Roemer, who soon on-sold, but his name is commemorated in Roemer Crescent, off Lucerne Crescent.
The purchaser of Roemer's land was Sir William Manning who, recognising the place's potential for a resting place between Melbourne and Heidelberg, laid out a village and named it Alphington after his birthplace in Devonshire, England. By 1865 Alphington was mainly occupied by market gardens, and vineyards, with a post office, butcher, baker, general store and two hotels, one being the Darebin Bridge. The Heidelberg Road was a route to gold diggings at St. Andrews and in upper Gippsland. The Wesleyan Chapel was built in 1859 and survives as part of the Uniting Church's group of buildings.
Alphington is a primarily residential suburb consisting of mixture of 1970s brick veneer, recently built townhouses as well as period weatherboards. There is also a major paper production plant in the suburb. Present day Alphington has a young demographic, with more than 58% of the suburb being under the age of 40.
Notable residents:
Richard Minifie - First World War Fighter Ace
Paul Licuria - AFL player (Collingwood)
Anthony Rocca - AFL Player (Collingwood).
Lindsay Tanner - former federal MP for the Division of Melbourne
Rick Amor - artist
Altona Beach
ALTONA
Altona is a residential and industrial suburb 13 km. west-south-west of Melbourne. The township is on an indented bay (Altona Bay) on Port Phillip Bay, and the industrial sector extends several kilometres inland. Altona's southern boundary is Skeleton Creek (separating it from Werribee), and its opposite boundary is Kororoit Creek (separating it from Williamstown). The coastal part of Altona is alluvial flats and recent estuarine deposits, with alluvial valleys extending inland along the Kororoit, Cherry and Laverton Creeks. The last two drained into swamps. Inland are newer basalt plains.
In 1842 (or probably before then), Alfred Langhorne leased pastoral land on Altona Bay, and shortly afterwards began building a homestead. The area was then known as Laverton. The homestead became known as "Altona" by the 1860s. The reason for the name is not clear, but in 1843 a neighbour of Langhorne's, R. Wrede, gave his residential address as Altona, Port Phillip Bay. In any event Langhorne's homestead acquired the name "Altona," and it is in Queen Street, Altona, having served as a Council office and a community centre. "Altona" derives from a German village on the River Elbe, later a suburb of the Hamburg seaport.
A key feature is Altona Beach on Port Phillip, which is one of only two swimming beaches in the western suburbs (the other being Williamstown Beach). Altona has many significant parks and gardens, including some important environmental conservation areas and wetlands along the shores of Port Phillip, which are also used by visitors and residents recreationally including a long promenade along the bay. The Hobsons Bay Coastal Trail is a shared path for cyclists and pedestrians, which follows the coast through Altona. This is linked to a path which loops around Cherry Lake. Most major roads have on-road cycleways.
Aberfeldie is a suburb 9km north-west of Melbourne,. Its Local Government Area is the City of Moonee Valley. At the 2006 Census, Aberfeldie had a population of 3455. Scotsman James Robertson named his property Aberfeldie, located on the corner of Aberfeldie St and Park Crs, after a place in Scotland. When the property was sold in 1888 it became the name of the suburb. The area has tended to attract families, with its abundance of parks, sporting facilities and the Maribyrnong River. There is a range of detached housing from inter war Californian Bungalows to post war dwellings.
ABBOTSFORD
Abbotsford, a residential and industrial suburb, is in the eat of Collingwood, between Hoddle Street and the Yarra River. It was named after a property owned by John Orr in Kew, the bordering suburb over the Yarra River. In the 1850s a land auction for the "Abbotsford township" was promoted, the site being between the Convent of the Good Shepherd and Johnston Street. It was the most attractive part, on the river bank, as west of it was the low-lying Collingwood flat. The western side of Abbotsford has the railway line from Collingwood to Heidelberg (1888) and Princes Bridge to Collingwood (1901). The town hall and other civic buildings (1880s) are next to the railway station.
Like many of Melbourne's inner suburbs, there are few detached houses in Abbotsford. Residential streets are often narrow, and some streets are leafy. A large proportion of houses in Abbotsford are subject to Heritage overlay provisions, which protect their heritage value. The older residential sections consist mostly of working class single-storey Victorian terrace houses.
Abbotsford is a prominent early industrial area and as a result, there are several outstanding examples of industrial buildings. The most prominent is Denton Hat Mills, a large turn of the century industrial complex designed by architect William Pitt in polychrome brick in 1888. It was the home to Brush Fabrics until 2004, when plans for conversion to apartments were implemented. Work on the conversion began in mid-2007 and was completed in December 2009. Prominent hotels include the Carringbush Hotel. It was built in 1889 and was originally named the Friendly Societies Hotel.
AIRPORT WEST
Airport West is a suburb 14km north-west of Melbourne. At the 2006 Census, Airport West had a population of 6660. Bounded by the Calder Freeway to the south, the Tullamarine Freeway to the east, and the Western Ring Road to the north west, Airport West is so named for its position to the west of Essendon Airport, Melbourne's first general airport now used for light planes, charter and freight since the opening in 1970 of Melbourne Airport located to the north of the suburb. It has the distinction of being the only locality in Australia which does not itself contain an airport to contain the word "Airport."
Notable residents:
James Birrell, architect
Hayden Kennedy, AFL umpire
Simon Madden, VFL player
Justin Madden, Victorian State Minister and VFL/AFL player
Ashley Naylor, musician
Mark 'Bomber' Thompson, VFL/AFL player and coach
ALAMEIN
Alamein is the name of a railway station on the Alamein line. Alamein was the last station to be built on what is now the line of the same name. It was built in 1948 on the reservation of the ill-fated Outer Circle line, the section on which Alamein is now located being closed to all traffic in 1895. The station serviced a new Housing Commission estate that had been opened up to house people that had displaced after the Second World War. The station still bears the name of the estate, which in turn had been named after the battlefield in North Africa.
The Alamein railway line serves part of the City of Boroondara, to the east of the Melbourne central business district. It has six stations and branches from the Belgrave and Lilydale lines at Camberwell station. The line is operated as a shuttle service between Camberwell and Alamein stations during off-peak periods, while trains run the whole distance to Flinders Street Station during peak hours. What is now known as the Alamein line was opened as the Outer Circle Railway between 1890 and 1891. The segment still in use today was opened on 24 March 1890.
Albert Park
ALBERT PARK
Albert Park, a residential area with a large regional park and lake, is 3 km. south of Melbourne. It was named after Prince Albert, the Consort of Queen Victoria. There are two Albert Parks, one the large recreational parkland and the other the adjoining residential area which spread southwards from South Melbourne's Emerald Hill in the 1870s and 1880s. The parkland was like much of the land in the Yarra delta, swampy, grassed with sparse tree cover, and with occasional lagoons, some quite large. The lagoon in Albert Park was one of those. The land was used for seasonal grazing, recreational hunting, rifle practice at the Butts (the original name of the Albert Park railway station) and for military training manoeuvres between the Victoria Barracks, St. Kilda Road, and the battery on Port Phillip Bay at the end of Kerford Road. In 1857 a railway line was opened through Albert Park from Melbourne to St. Kilda. A short-lived rail loop from Windsor to St. Kilda (1859-62) passed through the south of the parkland. On 22 July, 1862, the parkland was temporarily reserved from sale, and permanently reserved two years later.
The suburb of Albert Park extends from the St Vincent Gardens to Beaconsfield Parade and Mills Street. It was settled residentially as an extension of Emerald Hill (South Melbourne). It is characterised by wide streets, heritage buildings, terraced houses, open air cafes, parks and significant stands of mature exotic trees, including Canary Island Date Palm and London Planes. Since 1996 Albert Park has been home to the Australian Grand Prix.
Notable residents:
Roy Cazaly (13 January 1893-10 October 1963), Australian rules football legend (birthplace).
Ernest McIntyre (19 April 1921-10 April 2003), Australian rules footballer (birthplace).
Hilda and Laurel Armstrong. 'The Vegemite Girls', sisters who coined the name of the iconic Australian food spread in 1923
Noel Jack (1913- 1986). Artist and revolutionary(Counihan).
William Scott (1920-1975) tenor (Herbert).
Patricia Irene (1911-1990). journalist (Jarrett).
ALBION
Albion is 13 km west from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Brimbank. At the 2006 Census, Albion had a population of 3763. A subdivision of Sunshine, it is bordered on the north by the Western Highway, the south by Forrest St, the west by Kororoit Creek and the east by Anderson Rd. The name 'Albion' derives from the Albion Quarrying Company which operated in the area. The disused Albion quarry, accessed from Hulett St, was the location for AC/DC's Jailbreak music video.
The area was originally called Darlington, from at least 1860 to about 1890. The area originally known as Albion was directly west of Duke Street, as can be noted by the many streets there named after English counties and placenames - Albion being an ancient name for the island of Great Britain. Albion station opened on 5 January 1860 as Albion and Darlington but closed a year later. It was not until 1919 that a new station was opened on the same site with the name Albion station.
Albion has many period homes such as California bungalows and 1940s weatherboard houses many of which were built by H. V. McKay as part of his Sunshine Estate Garden city community. Kororoit Creek provides the western border for Albion. Along it runs the Kororoit Creek Trail which runs all the way southwards to meet the Federation Trail in Brooklyn. Stony Creek lies on the eastern edge of Albion, close to Anderson Road. As of 2013, the creek's environmental state west of Anderson Rd is very poor as it has long been converted to nothing more than a concrete stormwater drain for this particular section of its course.
ALPHINGTON
Alphington is immediately north of the Yarra River, some 7 km. north-east of Melbourne. On its west is Fairfield and on its east is Ivanhoe. Farm-size land sales in Alphington coincided with those in the Northcote and Fairfield district in 1840. Most of Alphington was bought by three persons. Most easterly, Thomas Wills bought 71 ha. running down to the river where the Latrobe golf club is now situated. He built the "Lucerne" homestead (1840-1960), but soon disposed of it and built the grander "Willsmere" on the other side of the river in Kew. The westerly purchaser was the Howitt brothers, important Port Phillip and post gold-rush personalities. Howitt thought the "situation delicious and the slopes most graceful." The purchaser of the middle portion was Charles Roemer, who soon on-sold, but his name is commemorated in Roemer Crescent, off Lucerne Crescent.
The purchaser of Roemer's land was Sir William Manning who, recognising the place's potential for a resting place between Melbourne and Heidelberg, laid out a village and named it Alphington after his birthplace in Devonshire, England. By 1865 Alphington was mainly occupied by market gardens, and vineyards, with a post office, butcher, baker, general store and two hotels, one being the Darebin Bridge. The Heidelberg Road was a route to gold diggings at St. Andrews and in upper Gippsland. The Wesleyan Chapel was built in 1859 and survives as part of the Uniting Church's group of buildings.
Alphington is a primarily residential suburb consisting of mixture of 1970s brick veneer, recently built townhouses as well as period weatherboards. There is also a major paper production plant in the suburb. Present day Alphington has a young demographic, with more than 58% of the suburb being under the age of 40.
Notable residents:
Richard Minifie - First World War Fighter Ace
Paul Licuria - AFL player (Collingwood)
Anthony Rocca - AFL Player (Collingwood).
Lindsay Tanner - former federal MP for the Division of Melbourne
Rick Amor - artist
Altona Beach
ALTONA
Altona is a residential and industrial suburb 13 km. west-south-west of Melbourne. The township is on an indented bay (Altona Bay) on Port Phillip Bay, and the industrial sector extends several kilometres inland. Altona's southern boundary is Skeleton Creek (separating it from Werribee), and its opposite boundary is Kororoit Creek (separating it from Williamstown). The coastal part of Altona is alluvial flats and recent estuarine deposits, with alluvial valleys extending inland along the Kororoit, Cherry and Laverton Creeks. The last two drained into swamps. Inland are newer basalt plains.
In 1842 (or probably before then), Alfred Langhorne leased pastoral land on Altona Bay, and shortly afterwards began building a homestead. The area was then known as Laverton. The homestead became known as "Altona" by the 1860s. The reason for the name is not clear, but in 1843 a neighbour of Langhorne's, R. Wrede, gave his residential address as Altona, Port Phillip Bay. In any event Langhorne's homestead acquired the name "Altona," and it is in Queen Street, Altona, having served as a Council office and a community centre. "Altona" derives from a German village on the River Elbe, later a suburb of the Hamburg seaport.
A key feature is Altona Beach on Port Phillip, which is one of only two swimming beaches in the western suburbs (the other being Williamstown Beach). Altona has many significant parks and gardens, including some important environmental conservation areas and wetlands along the shores of Port Phillip, which are also used by visitors and residents recreationally including a long promenade along the bay. The Hobsons Bay Coastal Trail is a shared path for cyclists and pedestrians, which follows the coast through Altona. This is linked to a path which loops around Cherry Lake. Most major roads have on-road cycleways.