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Fitzroy North, Victoria
Fitzroy North is an inner-city suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, north-east of the Melbourne central business district, located within the Cities of City of Merri-bek, Merri-bek and City of Yarra, Yarra Local government areas of Victoria, local government areas. Fitzroy North recorded a population of 12,781 at the 2021 Australian census, 2021 census. Also referred to as North Fitzroy in reference to its Fitzroy, Victoria, southern neighbour, Fitzroy North has a distinct character, noted for its prevalence of wide streets, intact Victorian architecture, Victorian and Edwardian architecture, Edwardian era Terraced houses in Australia, terraced housing and for the Edinburgh Gardens, a large inner-city park formerly home to the Fitzroy Football Club. Fitzroy North is adjacent to, and shares a postcode and neighbourhood character with Clifton Hill, Victoria, Clifton Hill, both being government subdivisions set on elevated ground and to the same layout by Clement Hodgkinson ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicholson Street
Nicholson Street is a street in inner Melbourne. It is named after William Nicholson (Australian politician), William Nicholson, who is remembered as the "father of the ballot". He was also a member of the Victorian Legislative Council, Legislative Council, and later became Premier of Victoria (from 1859-1860). Geography Nicholson Street runs north-south through inner northern Melbourne. At its southernmost end, it connects to Spring Street, Melbourne, Spring Street near Bourke Street. Between Victoria Street, Melbourne, Victoria Parade and Alexandra Parade, it forms the boundary between Carlton, Victoria, Carlton and Fitzroy, Victoria, Fitzroy; between Alexandra Parade and Brunswick Road, it forms the boundary between Carlton North and Fitzroy North; north of Brunswick Road, its remaining length is in Brunswick East. Nicholson Street merges into Albion Street, Brunswick East, just north of its intersection with Blyth Street. Nicholson Street, Brunswick East, is often confus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victorian Football League (1897–1989)
The Australian Football League (AFL) is the pre-eminent professional sports, professional competition of Australian rules football. It was originally named the Victorian Football League (VFL) and was founded in 1896 as a breakaway competition from the Victorian Football League#Victorian Football Association, Victorian Football Association (VFA), with its 1897 VFL season, inaugural season in 1897. It changed its name to Australian Football League in 1990 after expanding its competition to other Australian states in the 1980s. The AFL publishes its ''Laws of Australian football'', which are used, with variations, by other Australian rules football organisations. The AFL competition currently consists of 18 teams spread over Australia's five mainland states, with to join the league as its 19th team in 2028. AFL premiership season matches have been played in all states and mainland territories, as well as in New Zealand and China to expand its audience. The AFL premiership season ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Georges Road
St Georges Road is a main road in the inner northern suburbs of Melbourne, which passes through the suburbs of Fitzroy North, Northcote, Victoria, Northcote, Thornbury, Victoria, Thornbury and Preston, Victoria, Preston. Route St Georges Road starts at the intersection with Murray Road and Spring Street in Preston, Victoria, Preston along a wide dual-carriageway alignment, varying between four and six lanes, heading south to cross State (Bell/Springvale) Highway, Bell Street until meeting Murray Street in Thornbury, Victoria, Thornbury, where a tram line branches from both Murray Street and the adjacent Preston Workshops to run in a dedicated median in the middle of the road. It continues south through Northcote, Victoria, Northcote until it reaches Merri Parade, where it narrows to a four-lane, single-carriageway road, sharing surface tram tracks. Running south-west, it crosses Merri Creek through Fitzroy North, Victoria, Fitzroy North until it ends upon reaching Brunswick Stre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brunswick Street, Melbourne
Brunswick Street is a street in inner northern Melbourne, known for cafés, live music venues and alternative fashion shops. Route Brunswick Street runs north–south through the inner northern Melbourne suburbs of Fitzroy and Fitzroy North, from Victoria Parade at its southernmost end, crossing Gertrude Street and Alexandra Parade through Fitzroy, and north continuing until it reaches St Georges Road in Fitzroy North, near the Edinburgh Gardens; there, its former northward course is continued by a much smaller residential street named Brunswick Street North. Tram route 11 (West Preston to Victoria Harbour) runs along the entire length of Brunswick Street. History Brunswick Street, believed to be named after Captain George Brunswick Smyth, owes its origins to Benjamin Baxter, who owned land along Victoria Parade in the recently proclaimed township of Newtown (now Fitzroy South). Baxter owned Crown Allotment 49, which was adjacent to Allotment 48 at the northwest cor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brunswick Street Oval
The WT Peterson Community Oval, best known as the Brunswick Street Oval and also as the Fitzroy Cricket Ground, is an Australian rules football and cricket ground located in Edinburgh Gardens in Fitzroy North, Victoria, Australia. History Australian football The ground is the home of the Fitzroy Football Club in the Victorian Amateur Football Association. It was also Fitzroy's home in the Victorian Football Association from 1884 to 1896, and in the Victorian Football League from 1897 until 1966, with the last game being played there on Saturday 20 August 1966 against , a game which the Lions lost by 84 points. The Fitzroy Football Club then moved its home games to Princes Park, sharing the ground with Carlton Football Club between 1967 and 1969, while keeping their training and administrative base at the Brunswick Street Oval, before moving its home games and their training and administrative base to the Junction Oval in St Kilda from 1970. A total of 747 matches at the top lev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City Of Fitzroy
The City of Fitzroy was a local government area about northeast of Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria, Australia. The city covered an area of , making it the smallest municipality by land area in Victoria, and existed from 1858, until 1994. History In 1850, the area was made the Fitzroy Ward of the City of Melbourne, and on 10 September 1858, the ward was severed and Fitzroy was incorporated as a municipality. It became a borough on 1 October 1865, a town on 3 December 1870, and a city on 1 February 1878. Accessed at State Library of Victoria, La Trobe Reading Room. Many public buildings were erected at this time, with the free public library, one of the first in Melbourne, being erected in 1877, and a courthouse in 1888. During the mid-1920s, there was a strong move to have the Fitzroy municipality amalgamate with the City of Melbourne. Three referendums on the matter were held in the space of 18 months: on 24 June and 20 August 1926, and 24 November 1927. In each cas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hoddle Street Massacre
The Hoddle Street massacre was a mass shooting that occurred on the evening of Sunday, 9 August 1987, in Hoddle Street, Melbourne, Hoddle Street, Clifton Hill, Victoria, Clifton Hill, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), Victoria, in Australia. The shootings resulted in the deaths of seven people, and serious injury to 19 others. After a police chase lasting more than 30 minutes, 19-year-old former Australian Army officer cadet Julian Knight (murderer), Julian Knight was caught in nearby Fitzroy North, Victoria, Fitzroy North and arrested for the shootings. Knight was later sentenced to seven concurrent sentences of life imprisonment with a non-parole period of 27 years for what was described by the presiding judge as "one of the bloodiest massacres in Australian history".''R v Knight'' ; [1989] Victorian Reports, VR 705. The Crown prosecutor, Joe Dickson QC, "did not contend that a minimum term should not be fixed". Knight was imprisoned in the maximum security Po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clement Hodgkinson
Clement Hodgkinson (1818 – 5 September 1893) was an English Natural history, naturalist, explorer and Surveyor (surveying), surveyor of Australia. He was Victoria, Australia, Victorian Assistant Commissioner of Crown Lands and Survey from 1861 to 1874. Exploration in New South Wales Qualified as a civil engineer, Hodgkinson left England in 1839 intending to become a pastoralist.Wright, R., (2002), ‘Hodgkinson, Clement, in R. Aitken and M. Looker (eds), ''Oxford Companion to Australian Gardens'', South Melbourne, Oxford University Press, p. 306. After his arrival, he bought into a cattle station near Kempsey, New South Wales, Kempsey on the Mid North Coast of New South Wales. A year later, the Government of New South Wales hired Hodgkinson to survey and explore the northeastern areas of New South Wales as far as Moreton Bay. In March 1841 he explored the upper reaches of the Nambucca River, Nambucca and Bellinger River, Bellinger rivers, becoming in the process the first Euro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fitzroy Football Club
The Fitzroy Football Club is an Australian rules football club currently competing in the Victorian Amateur Football Association (VAFA). Formed in 1883 to represent the inner-Melbourne municipality of City of Fitzroy, Fitzroy, the club is based at the Brunswick Street Oval, W. T. Peterson Community Oval in Fitzroy North, Victoria, Fitzroy North. The club nickname is the Roys, having previously been the Maroons (until 1938), Gorillas (1938–1957) and Lions (1957–1996). Since 1975, the club's colours have been red, blue and gold. Fitzroy was established as a member of the Victorian Football Association (VFA), winning one premiership in that competition. In 1897, it was a foundation member of the breakaway Victorian Football League (1897–1989), Victorian Football League (VFL), the highest senior professional league in Victoria and later, as the Australian Football League (AFL), in Australia. Fitzroy was one of the most successful clubs over the league's first three decades, c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edinburgh Gardens
Edinburgh Gardens is a large park located in the inner Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy North. It is bounded by Brunswick Street and St Georges Road to the west, the curve of Alfred Crescent to the north and east, and Freeman Street to the south. It was created from a grant of land in March 1862 by Queen Victoria and laid out by Clement Hodgkinson, who designed many of Melbourne's parks and gardens. At approximately in size, the park is large by inner urban standards. History Statement of Significance 1978 Edinburgh Gardens were nominated for inclusion on the Register of the National Estate in 1978. "The Edinburgh Gardens are significant in terms of the large number of established trees and garden beds and the associated garden furniture – cast iron bollards, drinking fountain, fixed seats and bandstand. The tennis club house, train track and fixed train engine and the Bowling Club house and lawns are integral to this significance, while the adjacent cricket ground, with its t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terraced Houses In Australia
Terraced house, Terrace houses in Australia began to be built in early 19th century Sydney, closely based on the models found in London and other UK cities. They soon developed unique features, particularly elaborate balconies, and became a very popular form of housing right through the Victorian architecture, Victorian era, with some still built in the Federation architecture, Federation era. Large numbers of terraced houses were built in the Inner city, inner suburbs of the two large Australian cities, Sydney and Melbourne, mainly between the 1850s and the 1890s, with some examples in the smaller cities and towns. This was a period of population boom started by the Victorian Gold Rush, Victorian and New South Wales Gold Rushes of the 1850s and finished by the economic depression in the early 1890s. Detached housing had also been built in suburbs further out, and in the smaller cities and towns, and became much more popular by the time of Federation of Australia, Federation in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
