- Murrumbeena, Victoria
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Murrumbeena
Melbourne, Victoria
Shops on Neerim Road, Murrumbeena's main street
MurrumbeenaPopulation: 8,232 (2006)[1] Postcode: 3163 Area: 2.5 km² (1.0 sq mi) Location: 13 km (8 mi) from Melbourne LGA: City of Glen Eira State District: Oakleigh Federal Division: Higgins, Hotham Suburbs around Murrumbeena: Malvern East Malvern East Malvern East Carnegie Murrumbeena Hughesdale Bentleigh East Bentleigh East Bentleigh East Murrumbeena is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 13 km south-east from Melbourne's central business district.[2] Its Local Government Area is the City of Glen Eira. At the 2006 Census, Murrumbeena had a population of 8,232.
Murrumbeena is a small suburban area with extensive parklands and primarily Federation and Interwar architectural character.
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Toponomy
The name "Murrumbeena" derives from the Aboriginal word "mirambeena". It may have meant "land of frogs", "moss growing on decayed wood" or it may be a derivative from the name of an Aboriginal elder. The evidence for any of these etymologies is uncertain.[3] The name was officially adopted when the railway station opened in 1879.[4]
History
Murrumbeena Post Office opened on 12 May 1890.[5]
Main Street
The main street of Murrumbeena is Neerim Road, which bends to cross the railway lines and has a strip shopping centre extending to Murrumbeena Road nearby the railway station. Trading at the shopping centre suffered greatly with the opening of Chadstone Shopping Centre nearby, however it has seen a recent revival, particularly of street cafes and apartment building.
Transport
The main roads running through Murrumbeena are Dandenong Road, Neerim Road and Murrumbeena Road.
Murrumbeena railway station is a suburban railway station providing regular services to the city and along the Pakenham and Cranbourne lines.
The Neerim Road level crossing is identified by the RACV as one of the worst for traffic congestion in metropolitan Melbourne.[6]
Housing
Outside of the main street, Murrumbeena is a mix of predominantly single-family detached homes with small pockets of walk-up flats of up to two stories developed since the 1960s. The predominant style of the buildings in the shopping strip, station and surrounding homes are Federation and Interwar which include many magnificent examples of single story Art Deco designs.
Schools
Murrumbeena is home to Murrumbeena Primary School and St Patrick's Primary School. Murrumbeena High School was closed by the Kennett Government in the early 1990s.
Sport
The suburb has an Australian Rules football team competing in the Southern Football League with a history that can be traced back to the formation of the Murrumbeena Junior Football Club in 1918. They have junior and senior sides.[7] It also hosts a local Lawn bowls club situated in Blackwood street, it currently fields two teams in the Bowls Victoria Pennant competition.
Notable people
The potter Merric Boyd (1888–1959) established a studio in Murrumbeena and produced his own distinctive style of Art Nouveau ceramics. Through the Boyds, Murrumbeena played host to other well-known artists including John Perceval, Sidney Nolan, Hatton Beck, and Peter Herbst.
Arthur Boyd (1920-1999) was one of the leading Australian painter of the late 20th Century.
Mark Trevorrow, the creator of Bob Downe, the camp safari-suit wearing comic and singer was born and raised in Murrumbeena.
Musician Nick Cave grew up in the suburb, and TISM played their first show at the Murrumbeena athletics track club rooms.
Many Australian Rules footballers including Robert Flower from 1973 until 1987,, Tom Flower , Ray Carr , Mark Mitchell, Howard Hollow and Ken Jungworth who all played with Melbourne Demons went to school or came from Murrumbeena Football Club and also grew up in the suburb.
Bill Shorten, the Member for Maribyrnong in the Australian Parliament, grew up in Neerim Rd, Murrumbeena and attended Mass at the Good Shepherd Convent, on the current site of Chadstone Shopping Centre. He is the Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Superannuation and Financial Services.
Ronald Albert Simpson (1 February 1929 – 2 October 2002) was an Australian poet and poetry editor, artist and art lecturer. He was one of the Melbourne poets, and had a long tenure as poetry editor of The Age.
References
- ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (25 October 2007). "Murrumbeena (State Suburb)". 2006 Census QuickStats. http://www.censusdata.abs.gov.au/ABSNavigation/prenav/LocationSearch?collection=Census&period=2006&areacode=SSC21487&producttype=QuickStats&breadcrumb=PL&action=401. Retrieved 2007-09-26.
- ^ http://www.postcodes-australia.com/areas/vic/mulgrave/murrumbeena
- ^ What does Murrumbeena Mean?, Murrumbeena Community, http://www.murrumbeena3163.com.au/index.php?pgid=3, retrieved 2010-07-25
- ^ Brown-May, Andrew & Swain, Shurlee: The Encycploedia Of Melbourne, page 496. Cambridge University Press, 2005.
- ^ Premier Postal History, Post Office List, https://www.premierpostal.com/cgi-bin/wsProd.sh/Viewpocdwrapper.p?SortBy=VIC&country=, retrieved 2008-04-11
- ^ Lucas, Clay (2010-09-21). "Level crossings choking city traffic flow: RACV". The Age (Melbourne). http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/level-crossings-choking-city-traffic-flow-racv-20100920-15jqs.html.
- ^ Full Point Footy, Southern Football League, http://www.fullpointsfooty.net/southern_football_league.htm, retrieved 2008-10-21
External links
Coordinates: 37°53′56″S 145°04′19″E / 37.899°S 145.072°E
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