Port Melbourne, Victoria

Port Melbourne is a suburb of Melbourne in the state of Victoria in Australia, 5 km south-west of the city center of Melbourne. Your local government areas are the cities of Port Phillip and Melbourne. In the 2011 census, a population of 14,521 was detected.

The suburb is bordered by the Hosbsons Bay and the lower reaches of the Yarra River. Port Melbourne covers a large area with the districts of Fishermens Bend, Garden City, Montague and Beacon Cove.

The area north of the West Gate Freeway is one of Melbourne, the southern areas to Port Phillip.

Historically, this area was known as Sandridge and became Melbourne's second port, since it is directly adjacent to the city center.

The formerly heavily industrial in character, Port Melbourne has undergone in the last 10 years of intensive urban renewal. Today, Port Melbourne is a historic mixed use that includes both industrial and port areas along the Yarra River, as well as parks, beaches, exclusive apartment houses and the restaurants and cafes of the ' Bay Street ''. The suburb is also an important transportation route from east to west and forms an end to the West Gate Bridge.

• 7.1 Garden City
• 7.2 Beacon Cove
• 7.3 Fishermens Bend

History

The area of present-day Port Melbourne was first settled in 1839 by Wilbraham Liardet, who established there a hotel, a pier and a post office. Initially, the area Liardet Beach was called, but was soon officially Sandridge, and finally from 1884 Port Melbourne. During the gold rush in Victoria in the 1850s, the area was well known. More and more ships put on at their pier and Sandridge became a major freight port. To avoid the high cost of transportation in small vessels up the Yarra River to Melbourne was built in 1854 Australia's first railway, the Port Melbourne Line, joined the Sandridge to the city center of Melbourne. The now disused Sandridge Bridge received its name from the old railway line.

1860 Port Melbourne was one of the first areas in Victoria the municipal law as Sandridge Borough, which later became a local government area of the City of Port Melbourne.

In the early years of Port Melbourne suburb was separated by a large, shallow lagoon the neighboring suburb of Albert Park. The lagoon was filled slowly with the years until it was completely gone in 1929. Today, this area covers the Lagoon reserve, a public park east of the Esplanade between Liardet Street and Graham Street. The original extent of the lagoon was much larger.

As goods and Ferry Port Melbourne has a number of hotels. Early industries were a sugar factory, a soap factory, a candle factory, chemical plants, rice and flour mills, gas works, a distillery and a boot factory. Station Pier and Princes Pier were important landing places for immigrant ships before air travel to Australia were available and affordable.

For a long time Port Melbourne a focus of Melbourne's underworld, the smuggling operation at the landing. The old Ships Painters and Dockers Union ( Union of Painters and dockers ) was known to be controlled by gangsters. The Waterside Workers Federation of Australia on the other hand had many years as Secretary-General, a member of the Communist Party of Australia.

Since the merger of the local government areas of Port Melbourne and Port Phillip in 1994, many former administration building in Port Melbourne are used differently. Thus, for example, the Port Melbourne Town Hall today a public library.

With the decline of the importance of the port and after the resettlement of industry from the city center Port Melbourne became increasingly a residential suburb. The areas in which Port Melbourne originally developed at the Station Pier and the currently unused Princes Pier were built with a mixture of apartment houses and small apartment blocks; best known is Beacon Cove.

Traffic

Road

Two major highways pass through Port Melbourne, West Gate Freeway, which runs from east to west from the West Gate Bridge and the City Link, which leads north to the Bolte Bridge. Other major roads are the Bay Street, Williamstown Road, Lorimer Street ( along the Yarra River), the Graham Street, Salmon Street, Inglis Street and Beach Street (at Beaconsfield Parade and St Kilda ). The streets of Port Melbourne afford little integrated planning and so it is often difficult to find the right way.

Port Melbourne is covered by a dense network of public bus lines that connect the suburbs with the city center of Melbourne and other suburbs.

Rail transport

Port Melbourne is located on the tram number 109, which is traversed with a high clock frequency and widely used, since 1987, the railway traffic was stopped. There are a number of disused railways for freight, but the tram number 109 is only yet used rail link to the city center of Melbourne. However, there are some plans for further lines, eg to St. Kilda and Fishermens Bend.

Port

Even today serves as Port Melbourne pier for passenger and cargo ships. Many luxury liners, ferries and other ships dock at Station Pier. Among them is the Spirit of Tasmania, the TT -Line Pty.. Ltd.. to Tasmania. The freight is further west, near the mouth of the Yarra River at Webb Dock, settled.

Residential development

The residential buildings ranging from Victorian Woodworkers home to new apartment buildings. In the last twenty years, Port Melbourne has transformed itself from a suburb for the poor to a place of residence for the richest. Many large apartment blocks cover large parts of the land, stood on the former factories and warehouses, such as HM @ S in the Beach Street, ID apartments in the Pickles Street and Rouse Street, Bayshore and Bayview Bay Street. Each of these blocks of flats consists of many individual buildings and many new building blocks bind a historic building with. In Port Melbourne now lives a large proportion of wealthy people, but also even simpler people who live in apartment buildings and buildings of the " Old Port ". Many families emigrated in the 1950s from Greece and later immigrants came from Africa and Asia.

Trade

The Bay Street is the historic shopping district of Port Melbourne.

Port Melbourne currently houses the Circus Oz, Australia's world-renowned contemporary circus, which has its international headquarters at the corner of Bay Street and Rouse Street.

The Maritime Union of Australia ( Australian dockers ' and seafarers' union ) still has strong support in the area.

Crime

In May 2002, Victor Peirce, member of the Australian mafia in the Bay Street was shot in Port Melbourne. The crime has not yet been clarified. In political elections Port Melbourne is still a stronghold of the Australian Labor Party, although now home to many people with high incomes there.

Sports

The Port Melbourne Football Club, known as The Borough is one of the oldest football clubs and plays in the Victorian Football League. Another team, the Port Melbourne Colts, who play in the Western Region Football League.

Areas of Port Melbourne

Port Melbourne has three neighborhoods:

Garden City

Garden City is a district of Port Melbourne and Port Phillip. It was created in the 1920s as a garden city on the pattern of similar suburbs in the United Kingdom. The first houses were built as cheap houses the State Bank, later came to tenements that were created by the Housing Commission of Victoria. The complex consists of two-storey semi-detached houses, which are arranged around some open spaces in the style of a dissolved Beaux -Arts architecture. Contrary to popular belief, the " banks " were never tenements but always were in private hands. The " banks " were later than Nobs Hill known, reflecting the relative affluence of its residents compared to those of the later -built clinker -rise apartment buildings. The houses of the Housing Commission were called Little Baghdad.

Beacon Cove

Beacon Cove is a suburb of Port Melbourne and Port Phillip. It consists of about 1,100 homes in a mix of low apartment buildings and a few high-rise buildings with a supermarket, several small shops, a number of cafes and restaurants and a gym. The district was built from 1996 in the course of ten years from the Australian construction company Mirvac, after the plan of a gated community called Sandridge City could not be realized. The area was formerly plant. Beacon Cove is a beach promenade, palm -lined boulevards and allows the operation of two ship beacons. Most low houses are grouped around a number of small parks and similar in their post-modern, scaled Beaux- Arts style of the nearby St. Vincent Gardens in Albert Park. Along the waterfront is a set of 11 -14- storey high-rise buildings, at the western end of some very luxurious, low houses are located directly at Sandridge Beach. The houses on the folded Beach Street, which no longer runs along the coast and the apartments on the beach with direct access to the beach promenade. The project was carried out in several stages, starting from Princes Street to the west. This can be seen in the different architectural styles.

Fishermens Bend

Fishermens Bend ( originally: Fishermen 's Bend ) is a district of Port Melbourne and the City of Melbourne. It is just east of West Gate Bridge on the south bank of the Yarra River from Coode Iceland on the north bank of the river.

Fishermans Bend also included the present-day Garden City, separated in 1929 and renamed.

Since the 1850s lived in the area fishermen of European descent. Approx. 30 families lived on the Bend, often found extra work at the berths and cargo ships. On the back to Europe to the ships ballast was loaded. The people lived in huts on the deserts Bend, which consisted of corrugated iron, flattened kerosene cans and wood. There were no roads or shops and no sewer. The drinking water was obtained from all posted sailing and stored in steel tanks or barrels; the milk came from a nearby farm. The fishing is still operated in the bay, but only two licenses are the descendants of these first settlers. The last tin shed was demolished in 1970 to make room for the Webb Dock. Today, the headquarters of the Surf Life Saving Club is located at this point.

The district Fishermens Bend is also an important place in Australian aviation history, since there are many well-known aircraft manufacturers were settled earlier, eg the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation, Holden, Smorgen Steel, the Government Aircraft Factories, the Aeronautical Research Laboratory and a factory of Boeing. From 1958 to 1994, the Australian automotive industry with companies Australian Motor Industries (AMI ) and Toyota Australia was settled there.

There are today there is a marina called D' Albora Marinas Pier 35 and several docks for container ships.

Fishermans Bend has a large public park, the West Gate Park, and a large natural wetland.