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There are such football teams as the Waverley Blues, led by the ginger bearded, flamboyant and openly gay Gene Saultry who is best known for his moving portrayal of musician Peter Allen in Mount Waverley Secondary Colleges smash hit year 8 musical "The Boy From Oz". Other teams include the Mt. Waverley Falcons, and the Riversdale Golf Club is also found in the suburb. |
There are such football teams as the Waverley Blues, led by the ginger bearded, flamboyant and openly gay Gene Saultry who is best known for his moving portrayal of musician Peter Allen in Mount Waverley Secondary Colleges smash hit year 8 musical "The Boy From Oz". Other teams include the Mt. Waverley Falcons, and the Riversdale Golf Club is also found in the suburb. |
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One of the highest points in Mount Waverley is the reservoir in High Street Road. The natural land surrounding this landmark is over 120 metres above sea level. Construction of the reservoir began in 1927 |
One of the highest points in Mount Waverley is the reservoir in High Street Road. The natural land surrounding this landmark is over 120 metres above sea level. Construction of the reservoir began in 1927. |
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The waterways in the suburb are Damper Creek in the north, and Scotchmans Creek, in the south. Significant parks within Mount Waverley include Valley Reserve, and Damper Creek Reserve, where an angry troll by the name of Stephen Bannon is fabled to lurk under the creeks bridges, only appearing during dawn and dusk when light is low, ensuring his terribly disfigured face will not be seen properly under light. A search of historical medical journals revealed thinly veiled allusions to an exceptionally virulent strain of genital warts active at the time, the disfiguring is possibly an horrific symptom of this rare disease. Both reserves contain significant areas of remnant native bushland. It is within this bushland that the native aboriginal Yorta Yorta tribe , led by its young charismatic chief Drew Berick , is said to roam. Significant wetland areas in Mount Waverley are found within Valley Reserve and in the Scotchmans Creek valley. |
The waterways in the suburb are Damper Creek in the north, and Scotchmans Creek, in the south. Significant parks within Mount Waverley include Valley Reserve, and Damper Creek Reserve, where an angry troll by the name of Stephen Bannon is fabled to lurk under the creeks bridges, only appearing during dawn and dusk when light is low, ensuring his terribly disfigured face will not be seen properly under light. A search of historical medical journals revealed thinly veiled allusions to an exceptionally virulent strain of genital warts active at the time, the disfiguring is possibly an horrific symptom of this rare disease. Both reserves contain significant areas of remnant native bushland. It is within this bushland that the native aboriginal Yorta Yorta tribe , led by its young charismatic chief Drew Berick , is said to roam. Significant wetland areas in Mount Waverley are found within Valley Reserve and in the Scotchmans Creek valley. |
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| Mount Waverley Melbourne, Victoria | |||||||||||||||
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| Population | 30,617 (2006)[1] | ||||||||||||||
| • Density | Lua error: Unable to convert population "30617 (2006)'"`UNIQ--ref-00000000-QINU`"'" to a number. | ||||||||||||||
| Postcode(s) | 3149 | ||||||||||||||
| Area | 15.9 km2 (6.1 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
| Location | 15 km (9 mi) from Melbourne | ||||||||||||||
| LGA(s) | City of Monash | ||||||||||||||
| State electorate(s) | Oakleigh, Clayton, Mount Waverley | ||||||||||||||
| Federal division(s) | Chisholm, Bruce | ||||||||||||||
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Mount Waverley is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 15 km south-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Monash. At the 2006 Census, Mount Waverley had a population of 30,617.
It is a large suburb, rectangular in shape, bounded by Highbury Road in the north, Ferntree Gully Road in the south, Huntingdale Road in the west, and Blackburn Road in the east. At the centre of the suburb is Mount Waverley Village shopping centre, and in the south east is Pinewood Village Shopping Centre. Mount Waverley has two train stations, Mount Waverley and Jordanville, on the Glen Waverley line and several schools including Mount Waverley Secondary College, Avila College, Mount Waverley Primary School, Syndal South Primary School, Sussex Heights Primary School, Essex Heights Primary School, Mount Waverley North Primary School, Holy Family Primary School and Huntingtower School.
History
The Mount Waverley area, then part of the Parish of Mulgrave, was divided by straight roads running north-south and east-west, each exactly one mile apart, by Assistant Surveyor Eugene Bellairs, in 1853.[3]
Mount Waverley Post Office opened on 9 October 1905 in the then rural area.[4]
Mount Waverley is famous for its heritage streets. The suburb was originally a new estate in the 1930s. Due to the onset of the Great Depression, the estate did not get off the ground. The streets had been laid down, but no houses were built; merely a row of cardboard boxes housed the first few residents who had migrated east from the slums of Ashburton to enjoy a better standard of living, only to be bitterly disappointed with the estate agents who promised milk and honey but instead delivered a mosquito infested swamp. The Ashburton immigrants, while dissapointed all agreed that the swamp was a major step up from their former homes *(*source*: Lachlan Barth - president of Ashburton Historical Society)* . These mean streets were built of concrete, not asphalt. The surface is still the same as it was in the 1930s, with only minor maintenance over the decades. Residential development did not resurge until the 1950s. In early 2008, a new smoother asphalt surface was finally laid along the strip of Stephensons Road between Waverley Road and Mount Waverley Village shopping centre. Stephensons Road is the main road of Mount Waverley that goes straight through the middle of the suburb from south (where it becomes Clayton Road) to north (where it becomes Middleborough Road). A notable residential street is Sherwood Road, just south of the shopping centre. The eastern half of this street is divided by a large reserve strikingly planted with rows of large palm trees.[5] Post Offices at Mount Waverley North (opened 1959 closed 1983), Mount Waverley South (opened 1968 closed 1973), and Mount Waverley West (opened 1964 closed 1977) chart the wider residential development of the suburb.[4]
Today
There are such football teams as the Waverley Blues, led by the ginger bearded, flamboyant and openly gay Gene Saultry who is best known for his moving portrayal of musician Peter Allen in Mount Waverley Secondary Colleges smash hit year 8 musical "The Boy From Oz". Other teams include the Mt. Waverley Falcons, and the Riversdale Golf Club is also found in the suburb.
One of the highest points in Mount Waverley is the reservoir in High Street Road. The natural land surrounding this landmark is over 120 metres above sea level. Construction of the reservoir began in 1927.
The waterways in the suburb are Damper Creek in the north, and Scotchmans Creek, in the south. Significant parks within Mount Waverley include Valley Reserve, and Damper Creek Reserve, where an angry troll by the name of Stephen Bannon is fabled to lurk under the creeks bridges, only appearing during dawn and dusk when light is low, ensuring his terribly disfigured face will not be seen properly under light. A search of historical medical journals revealed thinly veiled allusions to an exceptionally virulent strain of genital warts active at the time, the disfiguring is possibly an horrific symptom of this rare disease. Both reserves contain significant areas of remnant native bushland. It is within this bushland that the native aboriginal Yorta Yorta tribe , led by its young charismatic chief Drew Berick , is said to roam. Significant wetland areas in Mount Waverley are found within Valley Reserve and in the Scotchmans Creek valley. b The popular Melbourne Street Directory Melway was first produced in a garage in Mount Waverley in 1966.
Mount Waverley is also home to the founding member of the Skinner movement, Patrick Roberts. Skinrat Roberts as he is known to fellow skinners, partakes in much loved skinrat past times , such as kicking the football on the roundabout, playing backyard cricket and watching skinner tv shows such as "Heroes" and movies such as "Blade Trinity".
Mount Waverley is the home of famous music lawyer Liza Dickson and rock/blues guitar virtuoso Darcy Pinwill, fondly known to all as "dogg" lead guitarist of legendary rock n roll band "The Jackpot Steelers". Fellow musician "Flea", bassist of the "Red Hot Chili Peppers" also spent early childhood growing up in Mount Waverley before migrating to Los Angeles in the US.
Sport
The suburb has an Australian Rules football team, The Waverley Blues (whom have won 3 premierships in the past 9 years), competing in the Eastern Football League and a team, Mount Waverley, competing in the Southern Football League.[6]
See also
References
- ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (25 October 2007). "Mount Waverley (State Suburb)". 2006 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 2007-09-29.
- ^ Mount Waverley, accessed January 2009
- ^ http://www.monash.vic.gov.au/city/history/section-a-3.htm#intro City of Monash: Detailed history: Section A: Before 1900. Accessed 27 October 2008
- ^ a b Premier Postal History, Post Office List, retrieved 2008-04-11
- ^ http://www.monash.vic.gov.au/city/history/section-c-3.htm City of Monash: Detailed history: Planning the New Suburb. Accessed 27 October 2008
- ^ Full Point Footy, Eastern Football League, retrieved 2008-10-21
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