Kogarah, New South Wales
Kogarah is a suburb of Sydney in New South Wales, Australia, with about 12,700 inhabitants.
- 3.1 Traffic
- 3.2 Education
- Here born 4.1
Geography
The district is located north of Kogarah Bay, 14 kilometers southwest of the central business district of Sydney and west of Botany Bay. It is the seat of the administrative area Kogarah Council, is to some extent also in Rockdale City.
Culture and sights
Structures
Buildings of interest are the Kogarah School of the Arts in the Bowns Road, the Kogarah Kogarah Fire Station and the Courthouse on Montgomery Street, and Kogarah Hotel on Princes Highway. Important churches are the Greek Orthodox Christian Church, the Kogarah Soldiers ' Memorial Presbyterian Church, St Patrick's Catholic Church, St Paul's Anglican Church and the Grace Church Kogarah.
The Kogarah Town Centre is the largest shopping center in the city. There you will find a post office, a supermarket ( Woolworths ) along with a variety retail stores such as butchers, organic grocery store, delicatessen shop, bakery, newsagent, hairdresser and pharmacy. The office building of the St. George Bank is in the Montgomery Street. It has its national headquarters in Kogarah. The Darrell Lea Chocolate Factory is located in the Rocky Point Road.
The Oki Jubilee Stadium ( also Jubilee Oval or Kogarah Oval ) on the Princes Highway is the home of the St George Illawarra rugby team Dragons. The stadium has a capacity for 20,541 spectators (2006). Near the Kingsford Smith Airport in Sydney suburb of Arncliffe is Kogarah Golf Club.
Regular events
The most popular events are the annual Kogarah Street Fair and Charity Bed Race. Several teams lead to Kogarahs main street, Railway Parade, races on hospital beds by. The teams consist of five persons, mostly of staff from the local shops in the city.
The guidelines state that a member of the team must be in a reclining position on the bed. The beds are usually decorated with the colors or the badge of the business, which is sponsoring the bed. The event for charity purposes. All profits of the race go to the St George Hospital.
Economy and infrastructure
Traffic
The Kogarah Railway Station is located on the Illawarra Line and is part of the CityRail network. The railway company operates in and around Sydney an extensive network of S-Bahn, regional and intercity lines. The Illawarra Line runs from Bondi Junction via Central, Sydenham, Wolli Creek and Sutherland to Cronulla or Waterfall.
There are bus connections to Brighton -le -Sands, Monterey, Ramsgate Beach, Sans Souci. By 1937 a steam tram sailed the route between Kogarah and Sans Souci via Rocky Point Road. Between July 3, 1937 and August 29, 1959 wrong trolley buses on the route. These were then replaced by diesel-powered buses.
Education
Among the most important educational institutions in Kogarah include the Sydney Institute of TAFE: St. George campus, Bethany College, Marist College Kogarah, the James Cook Boys Technology High School, the Moorefield Girls High School, the Kogarah High School, St George Girls high School, St Patrick's Primary School and Kogarah Public School.
Personalities
Born here
- Panagiotis " Panny " Nikas, Australian football player