Sandringham is a suburb in
Melbourne
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,
Victoria
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,
Australia, south of Melbourne's
Central Business District, located within the
City of Bayside local government area. Sandringham recorded a population of 10,926 at the
2021 census.
History
Sandringham formed part of the early estates in the parish of Moorabbin purchased by Josiah Holloway in 1852. Named Gipsy Village, lots were sold between 1852 and 1854 notwithstanding little settlement taking place at the time.
Bluff Town Post Office opened on 1 April 1868, closed in 1871, reopened in 1873 and was renamed Sandringham in 1887.
File:Sandringham victoria in 1908.jpg, Sandringham in 1908
Image:SandringhamBeachVictoria.jpg, Sandringham Beach around 1915
File:Clarice Beckett - Sandringham Beach - Google Art Project.jpg, Clarice Beckett
Clarice Marjoribanks Beckett (21 March 1887 – 7 July 1935) was an Australian artist and a key member of the Australian tonalist movement. Known for her subtle, misty landscapes of Melbourne and its suburbs, Beckett developed a personal style ...
, ''Sandringham Beach'', National Gallery of Australia
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File:HMAS J7 Submarine Sandringham Yacht Club 600 1662.JPG, Wreck of HMAS J7 Submarine in Sandringham Yacht Club marina. Sunk as breakwater in 1927
File:Sandringham.jpg, Brighton 0 Beach Esplanade looking towards Sandringham
Today
Sandringham is one of Melbourne's bayside suburbs, located beside
Port Phillip
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at the end of the
Sandringham railway line
The Sandringham railway line is a suburban railway line in Melbourne, Australia. It branches from other southeastern suburban rail lines (inferred as the " Caulfield group") at South Yarra station. It serves the City of Bayside, and small ...
. Sandringham is a popular location for beachgoers, sightseers, walkers, picnickers, photographers, cyclists and shoppers. It has a quaint village atmosphere with a number of cafes, coffee shops and restaurants (Greek, Chinese, Thai, Vietnamese, Indian, Japanese), take-away food outlets, gourmet food outlets, clothing stores, boutique homewares, hairdressers, professional offices, multi-story apartments, real estate agents, bakeries, a modern bookshop, a news agency, Coles supermarket, a health food store, a chemist, an award-winning library, a historical society, a large modern police station, a medical centre, a Life Saving club, a hardware store, a wine store, a bank, a large modern hotel (The Sandy) with a balcony overlooking the bay, an English pub with live music, a bike track and a coastal walking track.
![Train station in Sandringham](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cf/Train_station_in_Sandringham.jpg)
To and from the
Melbourne CBD
The Melbourne central business district (also known colloquially as simply "The City" or "The CBD") is the city centre and main urban area of the city of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, centred on the Hoddle Grid, the oldest part of the city la ...
, it takes 27 minutes to reach Sandringham by
train
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.
Bus
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es travel between the
Sandringham railway station
Sandringham railway station is the terminus of the suburban electrified Sandringham line in Victoria, Australia. It serves the south-eastern Melbourne suburb of Sandringham, and it opened on 2 September 1887.
A signal box is located at the ...
and
St Kilda,
Westfield Southland
Westfield Southland (previously known as Southland Centre) is a shopping centre in the suburb of Cheltenham in Melbourne. Southland has a floor area of 129,180m², making it one of the biggest shopping centres in Australia by size. There are app ...
,
Chadstone shopping centre
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and other places.
The Sandringham Yacht Club is host to a number of
Sydney to Hobart yacht race winners.
The main streets are home to some elegant old buildings, including the
railway station
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.
In the 2011 census the most common ancestries in Sandringham were English 29.3%, Australian 25.8%, Irish 9.7%, Scottish 9.3% and German 3.1%.
Sandringham is home to C Company of the
Australian Army Reserve unit,
5th/6th Battalion, Royal Victoria Regiment.
Sandringham was home to one of the last video rental stores which closed down in 2019.
The suburb is located within the federal division of
Goldstein.
Education
Sandringham Primary School
Sandringham Primary School is a primary school in Sandringham, Victoria. It is one of the oldest schools in the state of Victoria, with it being established in 1855.
History
Sandringham Primary School was founded in 1855, under the name of the "G ...
, that opened in 1855, is one of the oldest schools in Victoria. Sandringham Primary partially burned down on in the early morning of 1 February 2020.
Sandringham College
Sandringham College, established in 1988, is a two-campus secondary college located in the south-eastern Melbourne suburb of Sandringham.
In 1987 the State Government of Victoria decided to merge four schools: Beaumaris High School, Hampton H ...
- a State secondary college - has two campuses in east Sandringham, one on Bluff Road (Years 7–9) and one on Holloway Road (Years 10–12).
Private schools in the area include
Firbank Girls' Grammar School junior school (known as Sandringham House) and Sacred Heart Parish Catholic School.
Another school in the area is Sandringham East Primary, which celebrated its 80th anniversary in 2011. The
Melbourne International School of Japanese
A Japanese supplementary school provides supplementary Japanese education to Japanese residents living abroad. There are three major Japanese supplementary schools in Australia, all designated by MEXT as a Hoshū jugyō kō, providing Japanese e ...
, a
part-time Japanese education programme, once held its classes at Sandringham East Primary.
Sports
The
Sandringham Football Club
The Sandringham Football Club, nicknamed The Zebras, is an Australian rules football club based in Melbourne which was formed in 1929 and plays in the Victorian Football League (VFL) which was formerly called the Victorian Football Association ...
, known as the ''Zebras'', of the
Victorian Football League
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, has had a number of players go on to play in the
AFL
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Sports
* American Football League (AFL), a name shared by several separate and unrelated professional American football leagues:
** American Football League (1926) (a.k.a. "AFL I"), first rival of the National Football Leagu ...
, including
Trevor Barker,
Ian Cooper, radio personality
Rex Hunt
Rex James Hunt (born 7 March 1949) is an Australian television and radio personality, and a former Australian rules football player. He was also a veteran Australian rules football commentator known for his habit of making up quirky nicknames ...
, Andrew Krakouer, Paul Dimattina, Matthew Warnock, Ted Richards and
Tom Langdon. Its games record holder is Nick Sautner (202 games, 621 goals). The club's home ground is the Trevor Barker oval on Beach Road (opposite the end of Bridge Road).
Based at the RG Chisholm Reserve, Duncan Street, the East Sandringham Boys Cricket Club features in suburban competitions throughout the cricket season. The club has developed cricketers particularly at a junior level, notably
Shane Warne
Shane Keith Warne (13 September 1969 – 4 March 2022) was an Australian international cricketer, whose career ran from 1991 to 2007. Warne played as a right-arm leg spin bowler and a right-handed batsman for Victoria, Hampshire and Australi ...
who has on occasion returned to play for his junior club. The R G Chisholm Reserve (known locally as the Duncan Street Oval) is also home to the East Sandringham Junior Football Club, which produced future Brownlow Medallists
Chris Judd
Christopher Dylan Judd (born 8 September 1983) is a former professional Australian rules footballer and captain of both the West Coast Eagles and Carlton Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).
Widely regarded as one of the bes ...
and
Jobe Watson
Jobe Watson (born 8 February 1985) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Watson, the son of three-time Essendon premiership champion Tim Watson, w ...
.
The city also hosts the
Sandringham Soccer Club
Sandringham Soccer Club is an Australian soccer club based in Sandringham, Victoria. The men's team currently compete in State League 4 East. The women's team play in State League 2 South East. The men's and women's teams play home games at Tjilat ...
, which features both a men's and a women's team.
The city also hosts the Sandringham Amateur Athletic Club which was founded at a meeting held on 8 April 1930. The first recorded event was an 880 yards handicap at the Beach Oval (now Sandringham Football Ground).
Notable residents
*
Jack Cato
John Cyril "Jack" Cato, F.R.P.S. (4 April 1889 – 14 August 1971) was a significant Australian portrait photographer in the Pictorialist style, operating in the first half of the twentieth century. He was the author of the first history of Aust ...
, photographer
*
Chris Judd
Christopher Dylan Judd (born 8 September 1983) is a former professional Australian rules footballer and captain of both the West Coast Eagles and Carlton Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).
Widely regarded as one of the bes ...
, two-time
AFL
AFL may refer to:
Sports
* American Football League (AFL), a name shared by several separate and unrelated professional American football leagues:
** American Football League (1926) (a.k.a. "AFL I"), first rival of the National Football Leagu ...
Brownlow Medallist,
West Coast Eagles
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premiership captain and former
Carlton Blues captain, was born in Sandringham and played football for East Sandringham Junior Football Club and then the
Sandringham Dragons
The Sandringham Dragons are an Australian rules football club playing in the NAB League, the top statewide under-18 competition in Victoria, Australia. They are based at the Trevor Barker Oval in Sandringham, Victoria, representing the souther ...
in the TAC Cup as a junior.
*
Bob Hawke, Prime Minister of Australia from March 1983 to December 1991, lived in Keats Street, Sandringham, from 1958 to 1964. Hawke then moved to Royal Avenue, Sandringham in 1964.
*
Tim Flannery
Timothy Fridtjof Flannery (born 28 January 1956) is an Australian mammalogist, palaeontologist, environmentalist, conservationist, explorer, author, science communicator, activist and public scientist. He was awarded Australian of the Yea ...
, scientist and Australian of the Year 2007, grew up in Sandringham in the 1950s.
*
Brad Hodge, Australian Test Cricketer and former captain of the
Victorian Bushrangers
The Victoria men’s cricket team is an Australian first-class men's cricket team based in Melbourne, Victoria. The men’s team, which first played in 1851, represents the state of Victoria in the Marsh Sheffield Shield first-class compe ...
.
*
Jared Rivers
Jared Rivers (born 18 October 1984) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Melbourne Football Club and Geelong Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).
Junior career
As a child Rivers supported the Sydney Sw ...
,
Geelong Football Club player in the
Australian Football League (AFL).
*
Lisa McIntosh,
Paralympic sprinter and five-time gold medallist was born in Sandringham.
*
Jobe Watson
Jobe Watson (born 8 February 1985) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Watson, the son of three-time Essendon premiership champion Tim Watson, w ...
, former
Essendon Football Club player
*
Lisa McCune
Lisa McCune (born 19 February 1971) is an Australian actress, known for her role in TV series ''Blue Heelers'' as Senior Constable Maggie Doyle, and in '' Sea Patrol'' as Lieutenant Kate McGregor RAN. She has won four Gold Logie Awards.
McCun ...
, four time Gold Logie award-winning actress
Actor Lisa McCune sells home in Melbourne’s Sandringham for $5.25m at auction
Domain 7 November 2020
See also
* City of Sandringham – Sandringham was previously within this former local government area.
References
External links
Bayside City Council Website
Sandringham Yacht Club
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Suburbs of Melbourne
Suburbs of the City of Bayside
Port Phillip