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City Of Waverley
The City of Waverley was a local government area about east-southeast of Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria, Australia. The city covered an area of , and existed from 1857 until 1994. History Waverley was first incorporated as the Oakleigh Road District in January 1857, which became the Shire of Oakleigh in December 1871. Parts of the Central and South Ridings were severed to create the Oakleigh Borough, which went on to become the City of Oakleigh on 13 March 1891. The remainder was renamed the Shire of Mulgrave on 19 February 1897. In 1949 and 1959, further areas were annexed to the City of Oakleigh. On 14 April 1961, the Shire of Mulgrave became the City of Waverley. Accessed at State Library of Victoria, La Trobe Reading Room. On 15 December 1994, the City of Waverley was abolished, and along with parts of the City of Oakleigh, was merged into the newly created City of Monash. Council meetings were held at Waverley Town Hall, on Springvale Road, Glen Waverley. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melbourne
Melbourne ( , ; Boonwurrung language, Boonwurrung/ or ) is the List of Australian capital cities, capital and List of cities in Australia by population, most populous city of the States and territories of Australia, Australian state of Victoria (state), Victoria, and the second most-populous city in Australia, after Sydney. The city's name generally refers to a metropolitan area also known as Greater Melbourne, comprising an urban agglomeration of Local Government Areas of Victoria#Municipalities of Greater Melbourne, 31 local government areas. The name is also used to specifically refer to the local government area named City of Melbourne, whose area is centred on the Melbourne central business district and some immediate surrounds. The metropolis occupies much of the northern and eastern coastlines of Port Phillip Bay and spreads into the Mornington Peninsula, part of West Gippsland, as well as the hinterlands towards the Yarra Valley, the Dandenong Ranges, and the Macedon R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Road Districts Of Victoria (Australia)
Road districts were established in the colony of Victoria, Australia, pursuant to legislation passed in 1853 and were an early form of local government in Victoria. The districts were outside towns, which were instead incorporated either as municipalities or boroughs. The road districts were created between 1853 and 1871. Road districts were established after public meetings to discuss boundaries etc. followed by a petition to the governor. Upon the proclamation of a district a public meeting was held to elect officers of the Road Board, which was responsible for the building and maintenance of local roads and bridges, financing them with rates levied on landowners. From 1862 many road districts became shires, pursuant to the ''District Councils Bill 1862'', with additional responsibilities related to pounds, slaughtering licences, thistles, dogs, licensed publicans, brewer's and spirit merchants' licences and commons The commons is the cultural and natural resources acces ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Former Local Government Areas Of Victoria (state)
A former is an object, such as a template, gauge or cutting die, which is used to form something such as a boat's hull. Typically, a former gives shape to a structure that may have complex curvature. A former may become an integral part of the finished structure, as in an aircraft fuselage, or it may be removable, being used in the construction process and then discarded or re-used. Aircraft formers Formers are used in the construction of aircraft fuselage, of which a typical fuselage has a series from the nose cone to the empennage, typically perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the aircraft. The primary purpose of formers is to establish the shape of the fuselage and reduce the column length of stringers to prevent instability. Formers are typically attached to longerons, which support the skin of the aircraft. The "former-and-longeron" technique (also called stations and stringers) was adopted from boat construction, and was typical of light aircraft built until t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wheelers Hill, Victoria
Wheelers Hill is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia, 23 km south-east of Melbourne's Melbourne central business district, Central Business District, located within the City of Monash Local government areas of Victoria, local government area. Wheelers Hill recorded a population of 20,652 at the . At 152m above sea level it includes one of the highest points in metropolitan Melbourne. History Wheelers Hill was named after James Wheeler in 1888, who was an early settler in the Dandenong, Victoria, Dandenong area. Wheeler came out from Kilbride, County Wicklow, Kilbride townland, Cavan, Ireland. James married Ellen Reilly née Glynn in 1848 after the death of her husband, Bernard. There was a five-room house on a creek that went down to the Dandenong Creek not far down the road from the Post Office. Wheeler had a disagreement with Joseph Jell about the cutting of trees which led to the lands being surveyed. He sold the land in 1854 and moved to Wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Notting Hill, Victoria
Notting Hill is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 19 km south-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Monash local government area. Notting Hill recorded a population of 2,895 at the 2021 census. History Since ancient times, the Woi Wurrung occupied an area which extended from the Werribee River in the south west, Mount Macedon in the north west, Mount William in the Great Dividing Range to the north and across to Mount Baw Baw in the east. The Wurundjeri and the Boonwurrung are acknowledged as the traditional owners and custodians of the land. The centre of the original township of Notting Hill is on Ferntree Gully Road. The area is more a plateau than a hill, and is the site of two local water storages. A European settler, Thomas Wilkinson, is generally accepted as giving the area its name because of his association with Notting Hill in London. He was a carrier between Oakleigh and Ferntree Gully and in the late 1870s o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Waverley, Victoria
Mount Waverley is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, south-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Monash local government area. Mount Waverley recorded a population of 35,340 at the 2021 census. It is 16 km from Melbourne at its closest point. Mount Waverley railway station, located in the main shopping precinct, is located 17.8 km from Flinders Street railway station. Geography Mount Waverley is a large suburb, rectangular in shape, bounded by Highbury Road in the north, Ferntree Gully Road in the south, Huntingdale Road in the west, and Blackburn Road in the east. At the centre of the suburb is Mount Waverley Village Shopping Centre, and in the south-east is Pinewood Shopping Centre. History The Mount Waverley area, then part of the Parish of Mulgrave, was divided by straight roads running north–south and east–west, each exactly one mile apart, by Assistant Surveyor Eugene Bellairs, in 1853. Mount Waverley Post O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burwood, Victoria
Burwood is an inner eastern suburb of Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia, 14 kilometres east of Melbourne's Melbourne central business district, Central Business District, located within the Cities of City of Monash, Monash and City of Whitehorse, Whitehorse Local government areas of Victoria, local government areas. Burwood recorded a population of 15,147 at the 2021 Australian census, 2021 census. History The first settlement in the area, known as Ballyshanassy, was surveyed in 1858. The settlement changed name to Norwood and subsequently Burwood in 1879. The Post Office opened on 1 May 1853 as Ballyshanassy and was renamed Burwood around June 1879. The name "Burwood" (later "Invergowrie") was the name of a house built by James Frederick Palmer, Sir James Palmer, in Hawthorn, Victoria, Hawthorn West, in 1852. The original settlement was centred near Burwood Cemetery and the Police Station, but the focus shifted to the intersection of Warrigal Road, Melbourn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashwood, Victoria
Ashwood is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia, 14 km south east of Melbourne's Melbourne central business district, Central Business District, located within the City of Monash Local government areas of Victoria, local government area. Ashwood recorded a population of 7,154 at the 2021 Australian census, 2021 census. Ashwood was named after the suburbs of Ashburton, Victoria, Ashburton and Burwood, Victoria, Burwood, because it is located between the two. It has the postcode of 3147, which it shares with the neighbouring suburb of Ashburton. Ashwood is bounded by Huntingdale Road to the east, the Glen Waverley railway line to the south, Warrigal Road to the west and a wandering alignment to the north that approximately follows Carlyle Street, Zodiac Street, Gardiners Creek, Ashwood Drive, Montpellier Road and Arthur Street. History Until the early 1950s, when residential development commenced in the area, Warrigal Road formed the boundary of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Route 40, Melbourne
State (Bell/Springvale) Highway, also known as Bell Street/Springvale Road State Highway (after its longest constituent parts), is the longest self-contained urban highway in Melbourne, Australia, linking CityLink and Mornington Peninsula Freeway through Melbourne's north-eastern suburbs. These names are not widely known to most drivers, as the entire allocation is still best known as by the names of its constituent parts (some of which are only contiguous with the highway for a small section): Bell Street, Banksia Street, Manningham Road, Williamsons Road, Doncaster Road, Mitcham Road and Springvale Road. This article will deal with the entire length of the corridor for sake of completeness. Route Bell Street (and the beginning of the north-western section of the highway) starts at the interchange with CityLink in Pascoe Vale South, Victoria, Pascoe Vale South and heads east as a four-lane, single-carriageway road to Sydney Road, Melbourne, Sydney Road in Coburg, Victoria, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City Of Monash
The City of Monash is a local government area in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia in the south-eastern suburbs of Melbourne with an area of 81.5 square kilometres and a population of 200,077 people in 2016. History The City of Monash was once hunting grounds for two groups of First Nations peoples, the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung in the north and the Bunurong people in the south. The City of Monash, named after World War I commander Sir John Monash and the local Monash University (established 1958), was created on 15 December 1994 when the state government amalgamated local councils all over Victoria, merging a substantial portion of the former City of Oakleigh with the whole of the former City of Waverley. Townships and localities At the 2021 census, the city had a population of 190,397 up from 182,618 at the 2016 census. ^ - ''Territory divided with another LGA'' Council Current composition The current council, elected in October 2024, is: Mayors Past councillors Si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
State Library Of Victoria
State Library Victoria (SLV) is the state library of Victoria, Australia. Located in Melbourne, it was established in 1854 as the Melbourne Public Library, making it Australia's oldest public library and one of the first free libraries in the world. It is also Australia's busiest public library and, as of 2023, the third busiest library globally. The library has remained on the same site in the central business district since it was established fronting Swanston Street, and over time has expanded to cover a block bounded also by La Trobe, Russell, and Little Lonsdale streets. The library's collection consists of over five million items, which in addition to books includes manuscripts, paintings, maps, photographs and newspapers, with a special focus on material from Victoria, including the diaries of the European founders of present-day Melbourne John Batman and John Pascoe Fawkner, the folios of colonial explorer James Cook, and items related to Ned Kelly, notably his a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
