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Hurstbridge
Hurstbridge is a town in Victoria, Australia, 28 km north-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the Shire of Nillumbik local government area. Hurstbridge recorded a population of 3,554 at the 2021 census. Hurstbridge lies between Wattle Glen to the south, Arthur's Creek to the north, and Panton Hill to the east. History Before colonisation, the land around Hurstbridge was occupied by the Wurundjeri-Willam clan, the Aboriginal Australian people of the Woiwurrung language group. The Wurundjeri-Willam clan were part of the larger Kulin alliance. Hurstbridge was first settled by colonists in 1842 by Cornelius Haley, a grazier. The area was originally known as Upper Diamond Creek, or Allwood, after the homestead built there on Haley's selection. The town was renamed in 1924. The town's current name is from the Hurst family. Henry Hurst worked for Haley, and in 1857 was joined by his father Robert, mother, and siblings. The Hursts took over from Hale ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hurstbridge Railway Line
The Hurstbridge railway line is a commuter rail passenger train service in Melbourne, Australia. It shares tracks with the Mernda railway line until Clifton Hill, then heads in a north-east direction through the cities of Yarra, Darebin and Banyule, and the Shire of Nillumbik. It serves between Flinders Street in the Melbourne central business district through the northern suburbs up to Hurstbridge. The service is part of the Public Transport Victoria metropolitan rail network. Description The Hurstbridge line traverses the rolling landscape of Melbourne's north-eastern suburbs, at times cutting across hills and valleys, resulting in a somewhat winding and undulating track. It includes the only three tunnels on the suburban electrified system, other than the Melbourne City Loop, although none of them are particularly long or deep. The section from Flinders Street station to Victoria Park was built later than the rest of the line, which was originally connected to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hurstbridge Railway Station
Hurstbridge railway station is the terminus of the suburban electrified Hurstbridge line in Victoria, Australia. It serves the north-eastern Melbourne suburb of Hurstbridge, and opened on 25 June 1912 as Hurst's Bridge. It was renamed Hurstbridge on 9 December of that year. History Hurstbridge station opened on 25 June 1912, when the railway line was extended from Eltham. Like the suburb itself, the station was named after a local settler, Henry Hurst, who built a log bridge across the Diamond Creek to access a property named "''Allwood''". In 1957, a goods train service between Eltham and Hurstbridge was withdrawn. In 1962, a siding that operated to a cool store was abolished. Accidents and incidents On 16 February 1973, Tait trailer carriage 202T was destroyed by a fire while stabled in No. 1 road. On 9 April 1983, Comeng motor carriage 315M and Tait motor carriage 472M were destroyed by a fire whilst at the station. Both cars were later scrapped. Shortly before 2:00& ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wattle Glen, Victoria
Wattle Glen is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 25 km north-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the Shire of Nillumbik local government area. Wattle Glen recorded a population of 1,911 at the . The nearest public libraries are Diamond Valley Library and Eltham Library and the mobile library which stops at Hurstbridge operated by Yarra Plenty Regional Library. History The Post Office opened on 1 November 1901 as Diamond Creek Upper, was renamed Wattle Glen on 1 November 1922, and closed on 4 April 1975. When the railway line arrived in 1912 the railway station was named Balee on 25 June. This was renamed ''Wattleglen'' (as one word) on 14 August 1922.''Balee'' was changed to ''Wattleglen'' (one word) on 14 August 1922 as advised by Victorian Railways Weekly Notice No. 32 of 1922 Its popular meet and greet spot is the local general store, which was built and opened in 1988. The original general store was burnt down in the early 1900s an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diamond Creek, Victoria
Diamond Creek is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 23 km north-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the Shire of Nillumbik local government area. Diamond Creek recorded a population of 12,503 at the 2021 census. History There are two ideas about where Diamond Creek got its name. Victoria's Register of Geographic Names says that it was because of the way the stones glistened in the creek water. Local legend says it is because of a bull who was trying to cross a creek. The bull had a diamond shaped white patch on its head and found difficulty crossing the creek. Thus the Bullocky named the town after the bull with the diamond shape on its head and the creek it drowned in. The Ellis family were pioneers of the District and benefactors of the Nillumbik cemetery gateway. Ellis Cottage, a rubble-stone hipped roof cottage contains its original fabric and is considered historically significant and is on the Victorian Heritage database. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cottles Bridge, Victoria
Cottles Bridge is a town in Victoria, Australia, 30 km north-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the Shire of Nillumbik local government area. Cottles Bridge recorded a population of 609 at the 2021 census. History The area, previously known as Back Creek, was named after Thomas Cottle, who settled in the area in the 1870s. Cottle's Bridge Post Office opened on 1 January 1910 and closed in 1960. The actual Cottles Bridge is located west of St. Andrews in a location that was once full of small farms and orchards On 23 April 1942 it was reported that the Cottles Bridge Methodist Church had a fundraiser to erect a vestry for the church. The fundraising concert took place in the church and audience members were treated to a performance by the Diamond Creek Choir and the Cottles Bridge Choir. The church managed to raise four pounds that night, taking the total amount of the fundraising to twenty-one pounds. The church needed forty pounds to erect ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yarrambat, Victoria
Yarrambat is a town in Victoria, Australia, 24 km north-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the Shire of Nillumbik local government area. Yarrambat recorded a population of 1,602 at the . Yarrambat is located within Greater Melbourne, beyond the Melbourne metropolitan area Urban Growth Boundary. History Prominent as a gold mining area in the late 19th century, much of the land was surveyed and cleared for farming once the mining boom subsided. The area was rich with local orchards including well known local farming family the Stuchbery's. Church services began in the area in 1884 with many denomination using the local schoolhouse. After purchasing land and working with local builders the St Michaels Anglican Church was officially opened on 21 February 1954. The Post Office opened on 1 March 1910 as Tanck's Corner and was renamed Yarrambat around 1928. It is unknown why the name was changed however Yarrambat is named from a Woiwurrung word m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evelyn Observer
__NOTOC__ The ''Evelyn Observer'' was a weekly newspaper released from 1873 to 1942 in the north-east area of Melbourne, Victoria in Australia. It was first published on 31 October 1873 from a school house at Kangaroo Ground. Andrew Ross, the district's first school master and hotel-keeper was the ''Observers first proprietor, and he enlisted the help of a printer, John Rossiter, who became the first editor. It then operated out of a dedicated building on the top of a hill. After the transfer of the newspaper office to Hurstbridge, the building was purchased by the Eltham Shire Council. Alan Marshall in his ''Pioneers & Painters: One Hundred Years of Eltham and it's Shire,'' published in 1971, provides an earlier history where he reproduces handwritten memories of John Bell of Kangaroo Ground written in 1910: "Sometime in the 60s the Evelyn Observer Newspaper Co. was started by Mr Rossiter being Editor .. Mr. Harris, the present proprietor and Editor, bought the business and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doreen, Victoria
Doreen is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, north-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Whittlesea and Shire of Nillumbik local government areas. Doreen recorded a population of 27,122 at the 2021 census. Patrick Reid settled the area in 1844, calling it "Hazel Glen". The Post Office opened on 8 December 1870 as Hazelglen, and was renamed Doreen in 1895. The area has a community hall and a Country Fire Authority fire station. History Doreen was initially established by Europeans in the year 1844. One of these early settlers was Patrick Reid. Reid had a holding over the land, calling the area "Hazel Glen". In 1862, Reid's holdings over the land were subdivided into farmland, which lead to further settler coming to the area. The increase in settlers within the area lead to the construction of a Methodist church on the corner of Yan Yean Road and Chapel Lane, which was opened in 1862. The Doreen name comes from John Gavan Duffy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Panton Hill, Victoria
Panton Hill is a town in Victoria, Australia, 32 km north-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the Shire of Nillumbik local government area. Panton Hill recorded a population of 1,063 at the 2021 census. History Originally called Kingstown, the area experienced population growth in the mid-1850s during the Victorian gold rush when prospectors mined the hills around the town known as the Caledonia Goldfields. It was named after Joseph Anderson Panton, who was the magistrate at Heidelberg and spent much of his spare time mapping the Yarra Valley. Panton Hill Post Office opened on 1 October 1875. The Panton Hill Primary School, number 1134, was originally a two (2) room building with the Headmasters residence beside it. Today The town has a hotel, general store/post office, an Australian rules football club called the Panton Hill Redbacks, competing in the Northern Football League and a cricket club in the Diamond Valley Cricket Association ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Brock
Peter Geoffrey Brock (26 February 1945 – 8 September 2006), known as "Peter Perfect", "The King of the Mountain", or simply "Brocky", was an Australian motor racing driver. Brock was most often associated with Holden for almost 40 years, although he raced vehicles of other manufacturers including BMW, Ford, Volvo, Porsche and Peugeot. He won the Bathurst 1000 endurance race nine times, the Sandown 500 touring car race nine times, the Australian Touring Car Championship three times, the Bathurst 24 Hour once and was inducted into the V8 Supercars Hall of Fame in 2001. Brock's business activities included the Holden Dealer Team (HDT) that produced Brock's racing machines as well as a number of modified high-performance road versions of his racing cars. Early years Peter Brock was born at the Epworth Hospital, Richmond, Victoria, the son of Geoff and Ruth Brock (née Laidlay). The family lived in the country town of Hurstbridge (now an outer suburb of Melbourne) and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shire Of Nillumbik
The Shire of Nillumbik ( ) is a local government area in Victoria, Australia. It contains outer northern suburbs of Melbourne and rural localities beyond the urban area. It has an area of 432 square kilometres and at th2021 census the Shire had a population of 62,895. It was formed in 1994 from the merger of parts of the Shires of Eltham, Diamond Valley, Healesville and the City of Whittlesea. The Shire uses the tag-line ''The Green Wedge Shire''. The Nillumbik Council offices are located in Civic Drive, Greensborough. The shire's name is derived from the Parish of Nillumbik, which was named in the 1830s the term ''nyilum bik'' meaning "Bad Earth" in the local Aboriginal language Woiwurrung. On 13 October 1998, Nillumbik Council was suspended by then Local Government minister Rob Maclellan, with the state government declaring that infighting was affecting the ability of the council to function. Nillumbik was rated third of 590 Australian local government areas in the B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nutfield, Victoria
Nutfield is a locality in Victoria, Australia, 30 km north-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the Shire of Nillumbik local government area. Nutfield recorded a population of 158 at the 2021 census. History Nutfield Post Office opened around October 1911 and closed in 1964. See also * City of Whittlesea – Parts of Nutfield were previously within this local government area. * Shire of Eltham The Shire of Eltham was a local government area about northeast of Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria, Australia. The shire covered an area of , and existed from 1856 until 1994. History Eltham was first incorporated as a road district ... – Parts of Nutfield were previously within this former local government area. References {{melbourne-geo-stub Shire of Nillumbik ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
