RICHMOND, VICTORIA

'Richmond' is an inner city suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It is in the Local Government Area of the City of Yarra.
The suburb has been the subject of gentrification since the early 1990s and is now an eclectic mix of expensively converted warehouse residences, public housing high-rise flats and Victorian-era terrace houses, along with a lively retail sector and a shrinking industrial and manufacturing base.
The suburb is well known for its textile industry, in particular, popular factory outlets centred along Bridge Road.

Contents

Local Landmarks

Architecture

Non-residential architecture

Residential architecture

Public Space

Religion

Education

Transport

Health

Trivia

Notable Citizens

External links

Local Landmarks

These are some of the landmarks of Richmond.

★ Richmond Town Hall

★ Victoria Street, to the north of the suburb, is popular for its Vietnamese food.

★ Victoria Gardens Shopping Centre

★ Bridge Road has many clothing factory outlets and is popular with tourists.

★ Punt Road, one of the main thoroughfares into Melbourne. It is often clogged with traffic and runs alongside Punt Road Oval, home ground to the Richmond Football Club.

★ Church Street

★ Swan Street has many entertainment venues with live music. They include:

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★ The Corner Hotel, a bastion of live music in Melbourne. [1]

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★ The Swan. A pub on the corner of Church and Swan streets built in 1890. It often has live bands and is popular with the younger set.

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★ The Rising Sun, which is located at the corner of Burnley and Swan streets.

★ The Great Britain Hotel, Church Street.

★ Dimmey's building on Swan Street, with its ornate clock tower.

Architecture

Non-residential architecture

Victoria Gardens Shopping Centre is a large modern complex built in 2001 to service the inner eastern suburbs. The Loyal Studley Hotel was built in 1891 and is now used as a homewares shop. Richmond Power Station was built in 1891.
The Burnley Theatre is now a commercial homewares shop but contains some elements of the original interiors, including the foyer and stage.
450 Swan Street, completed in 1995 combines an old bank and modern building in outstanding example of deconstructivist architecture by Ashton Raggart McDougall.

Residential architecture

With a large number of small homes in its narrow streets, Richmond has some of Melbourne's best examples of residential architecture from most periods.
Notable examples include ''The Malthouse'', a landmark conversion of silos into apartments by award winning architect Nonda Katsalidis.
The blue stone terrace homes at 13 & 15 James Street, built in 1857 in the rustic Gothic style for Eneas Mackenzie, a civil servant, are classified by the National Trust and are among the oldest homes remaining in Melbourne.
Lalor House on Church Street, named after Eureka Stockade upriser Peter Lalor with its rich boom-style ornament is possibly Australia's best example of the Mannerist style applied to residential architecture.

Public Space

Richmond does have some parks and gardens and reserves but they are notably absent in the main center of the suburb. The largest park is Citizens Park (Richmond Oval) bordering on Church and Highett Streets. Other notable spaces include Barkly Gardens and the Allen Bain Reserve as well as a number of smaller parks and reserves.
Other large parks are located in nearby suburbs, including Yarra Park and Melbourne Park in East Melbourne, (Jolimont) the Golden Square Bicentennial Park, Burnley Park and oval, the Burnley Golf Course (survey paddock) and a number of sport reserves and ovals in Burnley, Pridmore Park, Yarra Bank Reserve, Creswick Street Reserve and St James Park in Hawthorn, Dickinsons Reserve, Yarra Bend Park, Studley Park Golf Course and Studley Park in Kew.

Religion

The local Catholic community is served by St Ignatius Church on Church Street and St James Parish.
In late 2005 a funeral for Van Tuong Nguyen, who was executed in Singapore for drug smuggling, was held at this church. Five days earlier, the day he was executed, a memorial was held just before 9am, his scheduled execution.
There is also a large Assemblies of God Church (Richmond AOG).

Education

Richmond is served by three high schools, St. Kevin's College (Waterford Campus), Lynall Hall Community School and Melbourne Girls' College. Primary schools in Richmond are Richmond Primary School, Richmond West Primary School, Trinity Catholic Primary (formerly known as St. James Primary School) and Yarra Primary School.
The Melba Memorial Conservatorium of Music, affiliated with Victoria University, is located in York Street, Richmond.

Transport

Richmond has an established transport system involving arterial roads, four train stations, eight tram lines, a bus route and a series of bicycle trails including the Capital City Trail and the Yarra River Trail.
Richmond is served by trams number 24, 27 and 109 on Victoria Street, trams number 78 and 79 on Church Street, trams number 48 and 75 on Bridge Road and tram number 70 on Swan Street.
The main train station in Richmond is Richmond railway station, which is a hub for trains to eastern and south-eastern suburbs including the Sandringham, Frankston, Cranbourne and Pakenham lines. Other train stations in Richmond include Burnley, which is an interchange for the Lilydale, Belgrave, Alamein and Glen Waverley lines.
Other stations include North Richmond, East Richmond and West Richmond.

Health

Epworth Hospital (private) has a major campus in Richmond fronting both Bridge Road and Erin Street.

Trivia

★ The 80s cult punk film Dogs in Space by Richard Lowenstein and starring Michael Hutchence was filmed in Richmond.

★ Songwriter Paul Kelly's song 'Leaps and Bounds' mentions Richmond's 'clock on the silo', otherwise known as the Nylex Clock.

Notable Citizens

★ Peter Lalor (deceased)

★ Van Tuong Nguyen (deceased)

★ David Mitchell (deceased)

★ Molly Meldrum

★ Cioppin (pending)

External links

★ Official Corner Hotel website

★ Official Richmond Football Club website