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Willagee, Western Australia
Willagee is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia south-southwest of the Perth (suburb), Perth central business district. It is within the Local government areas of Western Australia, local government area of City of Melville, and the electoral district of Willagee, which takes its name from the suburb. History Willagee is named after ''Willagee Swamp'', the Noongar name of a now-reclaimed feature in the area. The suburb originally comprised a housing estate known as ''Willagee Park'', created by the State Housing Commission. Willagee was brought into existence "primarily to provide accommodation for employees in the new industrial area being developed by the City of Fremantle, Fremantle City Council." Surveying and clearing of the land had commenced in December 1950, with a number of "first-class roads" constructed by the City of Melville, Melville Roads Board in 1951. A number of dwellings were prefabricated homes imported from Austria. The suburb is now characterised by demo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of Willagee
Willagee is an Electoral districts of Western Australia, electoral district of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly, Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Western Australia. The district is located in the southern suburbs of Perth. Willagee has at all times been a safe Australian Labor Party (Western Australian Branch), Labor seat. Geography Willagee is an electorate in Perth's south, to the east and south-east of Fremantle. It includes: * the suburbs of Willagee, Western Australia, Willagee, Kardinya, Western Australia, Kardinya and Murdoch, Western Australia, Murdoch from the City of Melville; * the suburbs of O'Connor, Western Australia, O'Connor and Samson, Western Australia, Samson from the City of Fremantle; * the suburbs of Coolbellup, Western Australia, Coolbellup, Bibra Lake, Western Australia, Bibra Lake, North Lake, Western Australia, North Lake and South Lake, Western Australia, South Lake from the City of Cockburn. History Willagee was first creat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prefabricated Home
Prefabricated homes, often referred to as prefab homes or simply prefabs, are specialist dwelling types of prefabricated building, which are manufactured off-site in advance, usually in standard sections that can be easily shipped and assembled. Some current prefab home designs include architectural details inspired by postmodernism or futurist architecture. "Prefabricated" may refer to buildings built in components (e.g. panels), modules ( modular homes) or transportable sections ( manufactured homes), and may also be used to refer to mobile homes, i.e., houses on wheels. Although similar, the methods and design of the three vary widely. There are two-level home plans, as well as custom home plans. There are considerable differences in the construction types. In the U.S., mobile and manufactured houses are constructed in accordance with HUD building codes, while modular houses are constructed in accordance with the IRC (International Residential Code). *Modular homes are cre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suburbs Of Perth, Western Australia
A suburb (more broadly suburban area) is an area within a metropolitan area. They are oftentimes where most of a metropolitan areas jobs are located with some being predominantly residential. They can either be denser or less densely populated than the city and can have a higher or lower rate of detached single family homes than the city as well. Suburbs can have their own political or legal jurisdictions, especially in the United States, but this is not always the case, especially in the United Kingdom, where most suburbs are located within the administrative boundaries of cities. In most English-speaking countries, suburban areas are defined in contrast to central city or inner city areas, but in Australian English and South African English, ''suburb'' has become largely synonymous with what is called a "neighborhood" in the U.S. Due in part to historical trends such as white flight, some suburbs in the United States have a higher population and higher incomes than their near ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Transdev WA
Transdev WA is an Australian bus company operating Buses in Perth, Transperth bus services under contract to the Public Transport Authority (Western Australia), Public Transport Authority. It is a subsidiary of Transdev Australasia. History On 29 September 1996, Transport Management Group Pty Limited (TMG), trading as Southern Coast Transit, commenced operating services in the Rockingham, Western Australia, Rockingham area from depots in Mandurah and Rockingham with 57 Mercedes-Benz buses, Mercedes-Benz and Renault Trucks, Renault buses. It was owned by Victoria (state), Victorian bus operators the Donric Group and SkyBus (airport bus), SkyBus. In August 1997, two Denning (bus manufacturer), Denning double decker coaches were acquired from AAT Kings and Australian Pacific Touring to operate a Mandurah Bus Station, Mandurah to Perth (suburb), Perth service. On 5 July 1998, Southern Coast was awarded the contract to operate Cockburn, Western Australia, Cockburn, Fremantle and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fremantle Railway Station
Fremantle railway station is the terminus of Transperth's Fremantle line in Western Australia. History The original Fremantle station opened in Cliff Street on 1 March 1881 as the terminus of the Eastern Railway to Guildford via Perth. As the Eastern Railway was extended, its importance grew. It became an important hub for gold miners arriving in Western Australia via ship and then travelling to the Yilgarn and Eastern Goldfields when the line opened to Kalgoorlie in 1896. In 1907, a new station and marshalling yards were established 300 metres to the north-east on the site of the former Fremantle Railway Workshops to better service the newly constructed Fremantle Harbour. The station was designed by William Dartnall, Chief Engineer of Existing Lines of the Railway Department in 1905. The construction contract, at an estimated cost of £80,000, was awarded in May 1906 to S.B. Alexander and completed on 20 April 1907, with the official opening on 1 July 1907. Originally ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Transperth
Transperth is the public transport system for Perth and surrounding areas in Western Australia. It is managed by the Public Transport Authority (PTA), a state government organisation, and consists of train, bus and ferry services. Bus operations are contracted out to Swan Transit, Path Transit and Transdev. Ferry operations are contracted out to Captain Cook Cruises. Train operations are done by the PTA through their Transperth Train Operations division. The Transperth train system consists of eight lines: the Airport, Armadale, Ellenbrook, Fremantle, Mandurah, Midland, Thornlie–Cockburn, and Yanchep lines; and 85 stations. Train services have operated since 1881. The Transperth bus system has over 1,499 buses and 51 bus stations, 38 of which are interchanges at railway stations. Buses have operated under private operators from 1903; these private operators were bought out by the Metropolitan Transport Trust starting in 1958. Contracting out the bus operations bega ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melville Senior High School
Melville Senior High School is a public co-educational high school located in Melville, a suburb of Perth, Western Australia. Opened in 1960, as of 2024 the school had an enrolment of 1,451 students from Year 7 to Year 12, with its catchment area covering most of the City of Melville. History The school was opened as Melville High School in February 1960, originally only with Years 8 and 9. Designed by architectural firm Parry, Parry and Rosenthal, and built by A. T. Brine and Sons Pty. Ltd., the school cost £324,493 to build, and was the first high school in Western Australia designed by a private architect. The school's Parents and Citizens Association (P&C) was established in March 1960, with a Student Council being formed in 1964. The school's name was altered to the present Melville Senior High School in 1964.''2010 Yearbook: Celebrating 50 years 1960–2010'' – Melville Senior High School. Accessed 18 September 2011. A fire on 21 April 1970 destroyed part of the Arts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australia Post
Australia Post, formally the Australian Postal Corporation and also known as AusPost, is an Australian Government-State-owned enterprise, owned corporation that provides postal services throughout Australia. Australia Post's head office is located on Swan Street in Richmond, Victoria. Australia Post is the successor of the Postmaster-General's Department, which was established at Federation of Australia, federation in 1901 to formalise colonial postal services. In 1975, the department was abolished and its postal functions were taken over by the Australian Postal Commission. The organisation's current name and structure were adopted in 1989 when it was corporatisation, made into a government-owned corporation. History Colonial Australia (pre–1901) Before colonial control of mail started in 1809, mail was usually passed on by ad hoc arrangements made between transporters, storekeepers and settlers. These arrangements were flexible, and inherently unstable. It was common f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IGA (Australian Supermarket Group)
Independent Grocers of Australia is an Australian chain of supermarkets. The IGA brand is owned by Australian conglomerate Metcash under their Food & Grocery division, but individual IGA stores are owned and operated independently. Its main competitors are Aldi, Coles and Woolworths. IGA is the fourth largest supermarket chain in Australia, following Aldi overtaking Metcash in supermarket revenue. History The IGA brand was introduced to Australia by Davids Holdings in 1988 when 10 stores became members of IGA. In 2019, it was reported that IGA had 7% of the grocery market in Australia. As of January 2020, there are over 1,400 IGA stores in Australia. IGA stores are typically located in suburbs that are too small, remote or do not have existing larger stores. Some stores offer a larger selection of curated or artisan products, than the bigger chains. In 2018, IGA began a rebrand that repositioned the chain as a uniquely local option, scrapping the white colour and corru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Lake Road
North Lake Road is a major road in the southwestern suburbs of the Perth metropolitan area functioning as an intermediate arterial collector positioned between the limited-access Stock Road to the west and Kwinana Freeway to the east. North Lake Road's northern terminus is at Canning Highway with its southern end at Armadale Road with the Kwinana Freeway exit as of December 2021. North Lake Road was part of the old State Route 14 until the early 2010s when upgrades and extensions to the more south-westerly Spearwood Avenue and Beeliar Drive resulted in its status being revoked. North Lake Road varies between a four to six-lane dual carriageway except for a two lane section north of Marmion Street. The northbound carriageway is three lanes between Leach Highway and Winterfold Road while the southbound's three lane section is longer but further south between Somerville Boulevard and Phoenix Road. History North Lake Road was developed in the late 19th Century in line with the w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stock Road
Stock Road is an arterial road in the southern suburbs of Perth, Western Australia. The northern terminus is at Page Street in Attadale, near Point Walter on the Swan River. It runs southwards to Canning Highway and then Leach Highway as a residential road. Beyond Leach Highway, it is part of National Route 1, and continues south as a dual carriageway. It ends at Rockingham Road, which runs south as National Route 1 towards Rockingham, and north-west towards Fremantle Fremantle () () is a port city in Western Australia located at the mouth of the Swan River (Western Australia), Swan River in the metropolitan area of Perth, the state capital. Fremantle Harbour serves as the port of Perth. The Western Australi .... Major intersections All intersections below are controlled by traffic signals unless otherwise indicated. See also References Roads in Perth, Western Australia Highway 1 (Australia) Hamilton Hill, Western Australia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leach Highway
Leach Highway is a east-west arterial highway in the southern suburbs of Perth, Western Australia, primarily linking Kewdale, Western Australia, Kewdale and Perth Airport with the city of Fremantle. It is allocated State Route 7 and is a dual carriageway for its entire length. Leach Highway varies in width between four and six lanes, with speed limits of . Route description Leach Highway is one of the state's most important heavy vehicle routes. It links the major industrial areas of Kewdale and Welshpool, Western Australia, Welshpool with Western Australia's major container port at Fremantle. Although the Leach Highway's western terminus is at Carrington Street in Palmyra, Western Australia, Palmyra, High Street, Fremantle, High Street continues for a further into Fremantle, and connects it to the Stirling Highway. History Leach Highway is named for Leach, former Commissioner of Main Roads Western Australia. Construction began in 1966, with the first section opened betwee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
