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Keysborough
Keysborough is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 27 km south-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Greater Dandenong local government area. Keysborough recorded a population of 30,018 at the . Keysborough was named after the Keys family who founded the town sometime after 1878. Keysborough is one of the largest suburbs in Melbourne by land area. Geographically, it is split into three sections, the southern portion of the suburb includes market gardens and semi-rural properties extending to its southern boundaries Pillars Road and the Mordialloc Creek, the middle portion of the suburb features large residential and industrial development which began in the 2000s, and the northern section of the suburb to its northern boundaries with Noble Park and Springvale South generally features housing predominantly built from the 1960s extending well into the 1990s. The suburb's western boundary is Springvale Road and eastern boundary is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haileybury College, Melbourne
(Lift up your hearts) , established = 1892 , type = Independent, co-educational, day school , denomination = , slogan = , principal = Derek Scott , principal_label1 = Chief Operating Officer , principal1 = Rebecca Arceri , principal_label2 = Vice Principal & Head of Haileybury City , principal2 = Pamela Chamberlain , principal_label4 = Vice Principal , principal4 = Scott Doran , key_people = Charles Rendall (Founder) , years = Kâ12 , chairman = Tom Poulton , city = Melbourne CBD, Berwick, Brighton East & Keysborough , state = Victoria , country = Australia , coordinates = , gender = Co-educational , enrolment = 3,615 (P-12) , num_employ = , colou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keysborough Secondary College
Keysborough Secondary College is an Australian dual campus government coeducational school for students from years 7-12, with campuses located in Springvale South, Victoria and Keysborough, Victoria. The four participating schools were officially merged into Keysborough Secondary College on 6 October 2008. The merger is valued at $43 million. History During 2007, DEECD proposed a merger with Chandler Secondary College, Heatherhill Secondary College, Springvale Secondary College and Coomoora Secondary College into two separate year 7-12 super schools capable of holding 1,200 students each. This proposal developed into the a plan for one super school at two campuses, the redeveloped sites of Heatherhill Secondary College and Chandler Secondary College. The interim name of the school before the official merger was briefly Keysborough Springvale Secondary College. Construction and redevelopment of the Acacia (former Chandler) and Banksia (former Heatherhill) campus sites begun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Braeside, Victoria
Braeside is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 25 km south-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Kingston local government area. Braeside recorded a population of 25 at the . Braeside is a largely industrial suburb with little residential areas. History Braeside Post Office opened on 15 October 1915 and closed in 1972. Today Braeside is a primarily industrial suburb bordered on its north by Lower Dandenong Road, on the east by Springvale Road, on the west by Boundary Road and to the south by Mordialloc Creek. On the south it is also bordered by Governor Road becoming Hutton Road towards Keysborough. Beyond these limits there is a new subdivision called Waterways. Braeside is also known for Braeside Park, a reserve that opened in 1987. It was formerly farmland and owned by the Board of Works. Located on the east side of the proposed Peninsula Freeway, and taking up over half the suburb, Braeside Park has walking/bicy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City Of Greater Dandenong
The City of Greater Dandenong is a local government area in Victoria, Australia in the southeastern suburbs of Melbourne. It has an area of just under 130 square kilometres (50 sq mi) and 166,094 residents in 2018. 29% of its land area forms part of the South East Green Wedge. It was formed in 1994 by the merger of parts of the former City of Dandenong and City of Springvale. The Bunurong/Boon Wurrung and Wurundjeri peoples are the traditional owners and custodians of the land on which Greater Dandenong is now located. History In 1994, the state government restructured local government in Victoria. The reforms dissolved 210 councils and created 78 new councils through amalgamations. As part of the reforms City of Springvale and City of Dandenong were merged to create City of Greater Dandenong. Council Greater Dandenong City Council comprises 11 councillors, elected from single member wards. Prior to 2020, councillors were elected from four wards: Lightwood, Paperbark, Red ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noble Park, Victoria
Noble Park is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 25 km south-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Greater Dandenong local government area. Noble Park recorded a population of 32,257 at the . Noble Park has a mixture of residential, commercial and industrial zones and is home to a highly multicultural population, with residents who have emigrated from Europe, Asia, the Americas, and Africa. History The history of Noble Park as a suburb in Melbourne began in 1909. Allan Buckley nicknamed the land subdivision Nobel Park after the Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel, as Buckley had used the estate to demonstrate Nobel's explosives, but the name was soon transformed to Noble Park by common usage. Early settlement was encouraged by building a community centre, church, school, postal centre and later, a railway station. The postal centre was opened in August 1910 and the railway station was completed in July 1912, but in the early ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
EastLink (Melbourne)
EastLink is a tolled section of the M3 freeway linking a large area through the eastern and south-eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Australia. EastLink is electronically tolled with no cash booths, using a system developed by SICE. The SICE Tolling System is similar to (and interoperable with) the '' e-TAG'' system used on the CityLink tollway. EastLink was opened to traffic on Sunday 29 June 2008 and in conjunction with the opening, a month-long toll-free period occurred before regular tolling commenced on 27 July 2008. The project was constructed by a joint venture of Australian construction companies Thiess Contractors and John Holland, with tolling system contracted to SICE, and mechanical and electrical work contracted to United Group Infrastructure. The final project cost was A$2.5 billion. Signs are at the entrances and on the tollway direct to Ringwood, Dandenong, Frankston and Doncaster. History The road was originally shown in the 1969 Melbourne Transporta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dandenong Creek
The Dandenong Creek (Aboriginal Bunwurrung: ''Narra Narrawong'' or ''Dandinnong'') is an urban creek of the Port Phillip catchment, located in the eastern and south-eastern Greater Melbourne region of the Australian east coast state of Victoria. The creek descends approximately over its course of before joining the Eumemmerring Creek to form the Patterson River (of which it can be considered the ''de facto'' main stem) and eventually draining into the Beaumaris Bay. The first European to see the creek near its source was in 1839 and is believed to be Daniel Bunce, a botanist. Etymology The traditional custodians of the land surrounding what is now known as the Dandenong Creek were the indigenous Bunurong people of the Kulin nation who referred to the creek as ''Narra Narrawong''; while others gave the creek the name Dandenong, sometimes spelled as ''Dand-y-non'' or ''Tanjenong'' by early settlers, believed to mean "high" or "lofty". Course Dandenong Creek ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dandenong, Victoria
Dandenong is a southeastern suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, about from the Melbourne CBD. It is the council seat of the City of Greater Dandenong local government area, with a recorded population of 30,127 at the . Situated mainly on the northwest bank of the lower Dandenong Creek, it is from the eponymous Dandenong Ranges to its northeast and completely unrelated in both location and nature of the settlement. A regional transport hub and manufacturing center of Victoria, Dandenong is located at the junctional region of the Dandenong Valley Highway, Princes Highway, Monash Freeway and Dingley Freeway, and is the gateway town of the Gippsland railway line into West Gippsland. It is directly neighbored from the north and south by two sister suburbs Dandenong North and Dandenong South, from the east by Doveton, and from the northwest and southwest by Noble Park and Keysborough, respectively. The easternmost and westernmost neighborhoods of suburb are also unofficial ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dingley Village, Victoria
Dingley Village is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 23 km south-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Kingston local government area. Dingley Village recorded a population of 10,495 at the . History Dingley was the original name before being renamed to Dingley Village in 1991. In 1856, Thomas Attenborough bought land in the area and named his house Dingley Grange, after Dingley Hall in Dingley in his native Northamptonshire, England. A farming community developed, relatively remote from either the bayside or Gippsland railway lines, moving into market gardens and poultry to supply metropolitan markets. There was no identifiable centre to the area apart from Christ Church (1873) at the corner of Centre and Old Dandenong Roads. The post office opened on 21 July 1913. A family of five brothers â the Gartside â solved the problem of vegetable gluts by opening a cannery around 1920. The cannery employed up to 50 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lighthouse Christian College
The Lighthouse Christian College is an independent non-denominational Christian co-educational early learning primary and secondary day school located in the Melbourne suburb of Keysborough, Victoria, Australia, The College has established a sister school, located in East Cranbourne. Overview Lighthouse Christian College has been active for over two decades. From beginnings in 1989, Pastor Richard Warner's (president) vision has been fulfilled, with the school growing to over 600 students. It is one of the most multi-cultural schools in the independent sector in Australia. In 2009 ''The Age'' newspaper reported that Lighthouse was the leading school in Victoria for the proportion of student graduates who proceeded to a tertiary education.The Age June 2009 The College continues to rake in marvellous accolades such as outstanding NAPLAN marks across the board and with a Year 8 student receiving the highest score in Victoria for the Australian Mathematics Competition. What i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parkmore Shopping Centre
Parkmore Shopping Centre is a regional shopping centre located in the outer south-eastern suburb of Keysborough in the city of Melbourne, Australia. The centre services the suburbs of the City of Greater Dandenong such as Keysborough, Noble Park, Springvale as well as other local suburbs. There are 128 stores at Parkmore along with 2,600 car parking spaces, 130 of which are located undercover. History Opening on 27 November 1973, the centre held extravagant opening celebrations, including Santa Claus Santa Claus, also known as Father Christmas, Saint Nicholas, Saint Nick, Kris Kringle, or simply Santa, is a legendary figure originating in Western Christian culture who is said to bring children gifts during the late evening and overnigh ... arriving in the world's largest hot air balloon of the time, as well as a performance by John Farnham. Anchors *Kmart Australia, Kmart discount department store. *Big W discount department store. *Coles Supermarkets, Coles superma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Springvale Road, 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 Tullamarine Freeway and Nepean Highway 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: Bell Street, Banksia Street, Manningham Road, Williamsons Road, Doncaster Road, Mitcham Road, Springvale Road and Edithvale Road. This article will deal with the entire length of the corridor for sake of completion, as well to avoid confusion between declarations. Route Bell Street (and the beginning of the north-western section of the highway) starts at the interchange with CityLink and heads east as a single-carriageway four-lane road to Sydney Road in Coburg, then as a dual-carriageway road varying between 4 and 6 lanes through Preston, then along Bell-Ban ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
