Tullamarine, Victoria
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Tullamarine is a suburb in Melbourne
, Victoria
, Australia
, 17 km north-west from Melbourne's central business district
. Its Local Government Area are the Cities of Hume
, Brimbank
and Moreland
. At the 2006 Census, Tullamarine had a population of 6,541.
The suburb is a collection of recent housing estates and light industry. Generally flat and exposed to the hot northerly winds of Melbourne's summer, as well as cold southerly winds in winter, its most notable feature is the nearby Melbourne Airport
. Tullamarine's residential area is contained in a circular loop of the Moonee Ponds Creek
, and its western boundary is the Melbourne Airport. Tullamarine contains the smaller residential area of Gladstone Park
.
The Melbourne to Sydney railway line separates Tullamarine from Airport West
to the south.
, a young member of the Wurundjeri
(who later in 1838 escaped from the first Melbourne gaol, burning it down in the process) according to Reverend Langhorne, an advisor to the first government surveyor, Robert Hoddle. Forty years ago the area was named as Toolimerin.
Tullamarine village was on the Bulla or Lancefield Road, which is now Melrose Drive. It was positioned at the intersection of three municipal boundaries (Broadmeadows, Bulla and Keilor), which came together at Victoria Street and Melrose Drive. The primary school was on land now in the airport (south of Victoria Street) and the post office was near the present day Tullamarine Reserve. Originally Tullamarine extended westwards to the Organ Pipes National Park, and the nearby area bounded by the Maribyrnong River, Jacksons Creek and Deep Creek was called Tullamarine Island because of the difficulties faced by inhabitants in getting across the watercourses during wet weather.
When the land in the Tullamarine Parish was subdivided into farm lots in 1842 only one lot sold, and the rest were sold by selection in 1850. A Wesleyan school was opened in 1855 and two other schools in 1859 and 1864. The Wesleyan one continued until the State primary school was opened in 1884. Tullamarine Post Office opened on March 4, 1859.
By 1865 Tullamarine had a hotel and a district population of about 200 persons.
PIONEERS.
In 1988, Anthony Rowhead of F.A.C.developed a scheme to rename roadways within the airport after aborigines, and pioneers of Tullamarine and aviation. It was fully developed when it was cancelled at the last moment with no reason given.Gowrie Park Drive was named however. It was named after the farm owned by James Lane in the 1920's when it was used as a landing ground by those daring young men who would visit the Inverness Hotel (near the north end of the runway).When Donovans had the farm during WW2,planes were parked there overnight in case a bombing raid struck Essendon Aerodrome.
Section 1 of the parish of Tullamarine was just over the river from Keilor. Its most noted occupants were Edward Wilson, editor of the Argus, and an acclimatation enthusiast,and Robert McDougall, a famed breeder of the Booth strain of Shorthorns.Section 2, Annandale, gave Annandale Rd its name. Its most noted occupant was Bill Parr. Section 3 was granted to William Foster and became known as the Springs. His younger brother J.F.L.Foster took it, and section 20 Doutta Galla (south of Sharps Rd) over later while he was acting Governor and the homestead on 20DG was called the Governor's House by locals. Section 20 became James Sharp's "Hillside" and the Crotty family's dairy farm called Broomfield. The southern part of Section 3 became the Reddans' "Brightview" and Tommy Loft's "Dalkeith".The Wesleyan School was near the bend in Cherie St and the Methodist Church was on the south corner of Post office Lane at the northern boundary of Section 3. Also on Section 3 was the Junction Hotel (which later became The Greens Corner store run by Cec and Lily Green.) The Mobil garage now stands on this site.Between there and Derby St was "Broombank" farmed by John Cock, Keith Williams' parents and Ray Loft and was the site of O' Nyall's Lady of the Lake Hotel when Burke and Wills passed by.
Between Broadmeadows Rd and the Moonee Moonee Ponds was section 4,the southern half of which was granted to E.E.Kenny whose property became known as Camp Hill because diggers bound for the goldfields camped on his property. Eventually the part west of Bulla Rd (Melrose Dr)was sold off and became (Samuel) Mansfield's Triangle. The northern part became Edmond Dunn's "Viewpoint. It was between Mickleham Rd and the creek, from the childcare Centre site to the Lackenheath Drive corner.North of Viewpoint was "Stewarton" whose occupant (1846-1855) was Peter McCracken, who later had a dairy in Kensington and built Ardmillan in Moonee Ponds. He was followed by John Kerr and, from 1892, by John Cock. A later prominent owner was Jim Barrow who had the first tractor in the district. Stewarton was renamed Gladstone and now, with Viewpoint, comprises the 1014 acres (4.1 km²) of Gladstone Park.
On the west side of Broadmeadows Rd (now Mickleham Rd) was section 6.This and section 15 (north to the Westmeadows Footy Ground)were granted to John Carre Riddell, after whom Riddells Creek was named.The land from Freight Rd to the creek was a 450 acres (1.8 km²) farm called Chandos (after which a street was named in Alanbrae) but in the early 1900's John Cock divided it into three farms; from the north, Judd's Chandos, Lockhart's 198 acre (0.80127828 km²) and Wright's "Strathconnan".
Section 7 was to the west and was granted to John Pascoe Fawkner.As Bulla Rd bisected sections 6 and 7, Fawkner and Riddell swapped land so that Fawkner's was now to the south west and Riddell's to the north east. Fawkner divided his land into 7 acres (28,328 m²) blocks to enable his beloved yoeman farmers to obtain a block. James Henry Parr consolidated many of the blocks to form his farm "The Elms".Nearer to Grants Lane was the Loves' dairy farm. Riddell's land became Wallace Wright's "Sunnyside" (later Heaps) and Charles Nash's "Fairview". A triangular part of section 15, now near the airport terminal' later became the Paynes' "Scone".
Most of the airport is now on Section 14, "Gowrie Park", owned by the Ritchies of Aucholzie, James Lane and Donovan during most of the years until airport acquisitions began.
Section 8, east of McNabs Rd and south of Grants Lane, was granted to John Grant and the McNabs. Grant's farm, the northern half, was called "Seafield" and the McNabs had two farms, Victoria Bank and Oakbank but the middle farm was absorbed into Oalkbank. The two families are credited with introducing Ayrshire cattle into Australia. The Seafield School was where the runway crosses the line of Grants Lane.
Across McNabs Rd was Fox's Barbiston and on the North of Barbiston Rd, the McNabs' second Victoria Bank (later owned by journalist, Percy Blom) and the Ritchies' Aucholzie. On both sides of Mansfields Rd were farms owned by the descendants of David Mansfield. North of these farms was "Glenara" owned by the breeder of the Black rose and first Chairman of the Moonee Valley Racing Club until his death, Alister Clark.
(Sources:Broadmeadows: A Forgotten History, Bulla Bulla, Keith McNab and about 20 other descendants of pioneers, Parish maps, rate records, title documents.)
The three great leaders in Tullamarine's history were Alec Rasmussen, Major Murphy and Leo Dineen. The Spring St Reserve was renamed after Leo because of his efforts to establish various sporting clubs and facilities.Alec Rasmussen was responsible for the progress association purchasing the Melrose Drive Reserve and donating it to council so it would nice if Hume Council heeded my request of 20 years ago and named the reserve after this much-loved teacher.Walter Murphy moved two war memorials and Ann Greene's church as well as leading fire risk lessening burn offs.(Sources as above.)
By the 1930s the Tullamarine village also had a church, tennis and football clubs and a progress association. The chief activities were hay production and grazing. During the mid 1950s Tullamarine village became an agricultural and residential township. Later in that decade the Federal Government announced that it was examining a site north and west of the township for a new airport, and land acquisition began in the early 1960s. The school was moved to a new site in 1961.
In 1955 the Village Drive-In was opened with one screen and a capacity of 862 Cars. The drive-in
closed in 1984 and the site was developed into housing with streets named after famous film studios such as Forum and Paramount.
Between 1967 and 1970 Tullamarine Freeway
was built, dividing Tullamarine from its eastern area, which is Gladstone Park
. The part west of the freeway has housing, a large industrial estate and is skirted by the Western Ring Road with interchanges where it crosses the freeway.
In 1987 the median house price in Tullamarine was 97% of the median for metropolitan Melbourne, and in 1996 it was 82% of the metropolitan median.
Tullamarine had census populations of 82 (1891), 190 (1921) and 204 (1947). Later population estimates were 385 (1955) and 1,666 (1966). The current population of Tullamarine is 8,758 as at September 2005.
The club is affiliated with Football Federation Victoria and had its most successful season in 2009 with its First, Seconds and Under 18's all winning runners up flags.
Railway Stations nearest to Tullamarine are Broadmeadows
and Jacana, both on the Craigieburn line.
Melbourne
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, Victoria
Victoria (Australia)
Victoria is the second most populous state in Australia. Geographically the smallest mainland state, Victoria is bordered by New South Wales, South Australia, and Tasmania on Boundary Islet to the north, west and south respectively....
, Australia
Australia
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, 17 km north-west from Melbourne's central business district
Melbourne city centre
Melbourne City Centre is an area of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia. It is not to be confused with the larger local government area of the City of Melbourne...
. Its Local Government Area are the Cities of Hume
City of Hume
The City of Hume is a Local Government Area located partially within the metropolitan area of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It includes outer north-western suburbs and a number of rural localities between 13 and 40 kilometres from the Melbourne city centre....
, Brimbank
City of Brimbank
The City of Brimbank is a Local Government Area located within the metropolitan area of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It comprises the western suburbs between 10 and 20 km west and northwest from the Melbourne city centre.It has an area of 123 km²...
and Moreland
City of Moreland
The City of Moreland is a Local Government Area located within the metropolitan area of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It comprises the inner northern suburbs between 4 and 10 kilometres from the Melbourne city centre....
. At the 2006 Census, Tullamarine had a population of 6,541.
The suburb is a collection of recent housing estates and light industry. Generally flat and exposed to the hot northerly winds of Melbourne's summer, as well as cold southerly winds in winter, its most notable feature is the nearby Melbourne Airport
Melbourne Airport
Melbourne Airport , also known as Tullamarine Airport, is the primary airport serving the city of Melbourne and the second busiest in Australia. It was opened in 1970 to replace the nearby Essendon Airport. Melbourne Airport is the sole international airport of the four airports serving the...
. Tullamarine's residential area is contained in a circular loop of the Moonee Ponds Creek
Moonee Ponds Creek
The Moonee Ponds Creek is a creek and major tributary of the Yarra River running through urban Melbourne, Victoria, Australia from northern to inner suburbs...
, and its western boundary is the Melbourne Airport. Tullamarine contains the smaller residential area of Gladstone Park
Gladstone Park, Victoria
Gladstone Park is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 15 km north-west from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Hume. At the 2006 Census, Gladstone Park had a population of 8669...
.
The Melbourne to Sydney railway line separates Tullamarine from Airport West
Airport West, Victoria
Airport West is a suburb 14 km north-west of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Its Local Government Area is the City of Moonee Valley. At the 2006 Census, Airport West had a population of 6660....
to the south.
History
The name is thought to derive form TullamareenaTullamareena
Tullamareena was a senior man of the Wurundjeri, a Koori, people of the Melbourne area, at the time of the British settlement in Victoria, Australia, in 1835. He is believed to be present at the signing of John Batman's land deal in 1835. He was known to be a resistor to British occupation of...
, a young member of the Wurundjeri
Wurundjeri
The Wurundjeri are a people of the Indigenous Australian nation of the Woiwurrung language group, in the Kulin alliance, who occupy the Birrarung Valley, its tributaries and the present location of Melbourne, Australia...
(who later in 1838 escaped from the first Melbourne gaol, burning it down in the process) according to Reverend Langhorne, an advisor to the first government surveyor, Robert Hoddle. Forty years ago the area was named as Toolimerin.
Tullamarine village was on the Bulla or Lancefield Road, which is now Melrose Drive. It was positioned at the intersection of three municipal boundaries (Broadmeadows, Bulla and Keilor), which came together at Victoria Street and Melrose Drive. The primary school was on land now in the airport (south of Victoria Street) and the post office was near the present day Tullamarine Reserve. Originally Tullamarine extended westwards to the Organ Pipes National Park, and the nearby area bounded by the Maribyrnong River, Jacksons Creek and Deep Creek was called Tullamarine Island because of the difficulties faced by inhabitants in getting across the watercourses during wet weather.
When the land in the Tullamarine Parish was subdivided into farm lots in 1842 only one lot sold, and the rest were sold by selection in 1850. A Wesleyan school was opened in 1855 and two other schools in 1859 and 1864. The Wesleyan one continued until the State primary school was opened in 1884. Tullamarine Post Office opened on March 4, 1859.
By 1865 Tullamarine had a hotel and a district population of about 200 persons.
PIONEERS.
In 1988, Anthony Rowhead of F.A.C.developed a scheme to rename roadways within the airport after aborigines, and pioneers of Tullamarine and aviation. It was fully developed when it was cancelled at the last moment with no reason given.Gowrie Park Drive was named however. It was named after the farm owned by James Lane in the 1920's when it was used as a landing ground by those daring young men who would visit the Inverness Hotel (near the north end of the runway).When Donovans had the farm during WW2,planes were parked there overnight in case a bombing raid struck Essendon Aerodrome.
Section 1 of the parish of Tullamarine was just over the river from Keilor. Its most noted occupants were Edward Wilson, editor of the Argus, and an acclimatation enthusiast,and Robert McDougall, a famed breeder of the Booth strain of Shorthorns.Section 2, Annandale, gave Annandale Rd its name. Its most noted occupant was Bill Parr. Section 3 was granted to William Foster and became known as the Springs. His younger brother J.F.L.Foster took it, and section 20 Doutta Galla (south of Sharps Rd) over later while he was acting Governor and the homestead on 20DG was called the Governor's House by locals. Section 20 became James Sharp's "Hillside" and the Crotty family's dairy farm called Broomfield. The southern part of Section 3 became the Reddans' "Brightview" and Tommy Loft's "Dalkeith".The Wesleyan School was near the bend in Cherie St and the Methodist Church was on the south corner of Post office Lane at the northern boundary of Section 3. Also on Section 3 was the Junction Hotel (which later became The Greens Corner store run by Cec and Lily Green.) The Mobil garage now stands on this site.Between there and Derby St was "Broombank" farmed by John Cock, Keith Williams' parents and Ray Loft and was the site of O' Nyall's Lady of the Lake Hotel when Burke and Wills passed by.
Between Broadmeadows Rd and the Moonee Moonee Ponds was section 4,the southern half of which was granted to E.E.Kenny whose property became known as Camp Hill because diggers bound for the goldfields camped on his property. Eventually the part west of Bulla Rd (Melrose Dr)was sold off and became (Samuel) Mansfield's Triangle. The northern part became Edmond Dunn's "Viewpoint. It was between Mickleham Rd and the creek, from the childcare Centre site to the Lackenheath Drive corner.North of Viewpoint was "Stewarton" whose occupant (1846-1855) was Peter McCracken, who later had a dairy in Kensington and built Ardmillan in Moonee Ponds. He was followed by John Kerr and, from 1892, by John Cock. A later prominent owner was Jim Barrow who had the first tractor in the district. Stewarton was renamed Gladstone and now, with Viewpoint, comprises the 1014 acres (4.1 km²) of Gladstone Park.
On the west side of Broadmeadows Rd (now Mickleham Rd) was section 6.This and section 15 (north to the Westmeadows Footy Ground)were granted to John Carre Riddell, after whom Riddells Creek was named.The land from Freight Rd to the creek was a 450 acres (1.8 km²) farm called Chandos (after which a street was named in Alanbrae) but in the early 1900's John Cock divided it into three farms; from the north, Judd's Chandos, Lockhart's 198 acre (0.80127828 km²) and Wright's "Strathconnan".
Section 7 was to the west and was granted to John Pascoe Fawkner.As Bulla Rd bisected sections 6 and 7, Fawkner and Riddell swapped land so that Fawkner's was now to the south west and Riddell's to the north east. Fawkner divided his land into 7 acres (28,328 m²) blocks to enable his beloved yoeman farmers to obtain a block. James Henry Parr consolidated many of the blocks to form his farm "The Elms".Nearer to Grants Lane was the Loves' dairy farm. Riddell's land became Wallace Wright's "Sunnyside" (later Heaps) and Charles Nash's "Fairview". A triangular part of section 15, now near the airport terminal' later became the Paynes' "Scone".
Most of the airport is now on Section 14, "Gowrie Park", owned by the Ritchies of Aucholzie, James Lane and Donovan during most of the years until airport acquisitions began.
Section 8, east of McNabs Rd and south of Grants Lane, was granted to John Grant and the McNabs. Grant's farm, the northern half, was called "Seafield" and the McNabs had two farms, Victoria Bank and Oakbank but the middle farm was absorbed into Oalkbank. The two families are credited with introducing Ayrshire cattle into Australia. The Seafield School was where the runway crosses the line of Grants Lane.
Across McNabs Rd was Fox's Barbiston and on the North of Barbiston Rd, the McNabs' second Victoria Bank (later owned by journalist, Percy Blom) and the Ritchies' Aucholzie. On both sides of Mansfields Rd were farms owned by the descendants of David Mansfield. North of these farms was "Glenara" owned by the breeder of the Black rose and first Chairman of the Moonee Valley Racing Club until his death, Alister Clark.
(Sources:Broadmeadows: A Forgotten History, Bulla Bulla, Keith McNab and about 20 other descendants of pioneers, Parish maps, rate records, title documents.)
The three great leaders in Tullamarine's history were Alec Rasmussen, Major Murphy and Leo Dineen. The Spring St Reserve was renamed after Leo because of his efforts to establish various sporting clubs and facilities.Alec Rasmussen was responsible for the progress association purchasing the Melrose Drive Reserve and donating it to council so it would nice if Hume Council heeded my request of 20 years ago and named the reserve after this much-loved teacher.Walter Murphy moved two war memorials and Ann Greene's church as well as leading fire risk lessening burn offs.(Sources as above.)
By the 1930s the Tullamarine village also had a church, tennis and football clubs and a progress association. The chief activities were hay production and grazing. During the mid 1950s Tullamarine village became an agricultural and residential township. Later in that decade the Federal Government announced that it was examining a site north and west of the township for a new airport, and land acquisition began in the early 1960s. The school was moved to a new site in 1961.
In 1955 the Village Drive-In was opened with one screen and a capacity of 862 Cars. The drive-in
Drive-in
A drive-in is a facility such as a bank, restaurant, or movie theater where one can literally drive in with an automobile for service. It is usually distinguished from a drive-through. At a drive-in restaurant, for example, customers park their vehicles and are usually served by staff who walk out...
closed in 1984 and the site was developed into housing with streets named after famous film studios such as Forum and Paramount.
Between 1967 and 1970 Tullamarine Freeway
Tullamarine Freeway
The Tullamarine Freeway is an urban freeway in Melbourne, Australia, linking Melbourne Airport to the central business district.-History:Tullamarine Freeway is one of the oldest freeways in Melbourne, originally constructed in 1968-1970...
was built, dividing Tullamarine from its eastern area, which is Gladstone Park
Gladstone Park, Victoria
Gladstone Park is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 15 km north-west from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Hume. At the 2006 Census, Gladstone Park had a population of 8669...
. The part west of the freeway has housing, a large industrial estate and is skirted by the Western Ring Road with interchanges where it crosses the freeway.
Present day
Sharps Road, which runs east-west near the southern border of Tullamarine, was until the late 1980s a single carriageway road. On its southern side was a line of tall pine trees hiding a small pony club. Today, Sharps Road is a bustling dual-carriageway road providing an alternative route from the Western Ring Road to Melbourne Airport.In 1987 the median house price in Tullamarine was 97% of the median for metropolitan Melbourne, and in 1996 it was 82% of the metropolitan median.
Tullamarine had census populations of 82 (1891), 190 (1921) and 204 (1947). Later population estimates were 385 (1955) and 1,666 (1966). The current population of Tullamarine is 8,758 as at September 2005.
Australian rules football
Tullamarine has one football club, the Tullamarine Demons, who are competing in the Essendon District Football League (EDFL).Cricket
The Tullamarine Cricket Club (TCC) was formed in the season of 1968/69 and is presently situated at Spring Street Reserve Tullamarine and affiliated with the North West Cricket Association. It is a relatively young club with presently over one hundred members that are either players or social members.Soccer
The Tullamarine Jets FC Soccer Club was formed in 2005 but moved to its current home ground, Tullamarine Reserve on Melrose Drive in 2008. The club has approximately 100 members, either playing or social, and fields the Hume municipalities only open age Women's team.The club is affiliated with Football Federation Victoria and had its most successful season in 2009 with its First, Seconds and Under 18's all winning runners up flags.
Transport
There are currently five public bus routes that run through Tullamarine.Railway Stations nearest to Tullamarine are Broadmeadows
Broadmeadows railway station, Melbourne
Broadmeadows is a railway station in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, located in the suburb of Broadmeadows, on the Craigieburn railway line. Broadmeadows is classed as a Premium Station and is in Metcard Zone 2.-Facilities:...
and Jacana, both on the Craigieburn line.
See also
- City of KeilorCity of KeilorThe City of Keilor was a Local Government Area located about northwest of Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria, Australia. The city covered an area of , and existed from 1863 until 1994.-History:...
- the former local government area of which Tullamarine was a part. - City of BroadmeadowsCity of BroadmeadowsThe City of Broadmeadows was a Local Government Area located about north of Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria, Australia. The city covered an area of , and existed from 1857 until 1994.-History:...
- the former local government area of which part of Tullamarine was a part.