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... of the Australian colonies in 1901 the River Murray Commission was formed and in 1916 the Commission chose the junction of the ...
Old Tallangatta had two parts, the township and a housing area across the Tallangatta Creek on a rise. It was colloquially known ...
... two. North of the town hall there is A.V. Jennings’ first housing estate, Beaumont, along Melcombe Road (1938). Ivanhoe gained direct ... Ivanhoe West, adjoining the Darebin Creek, has Housing Commission dwellings, a Catholic school (1951) and a small shopping area. The ...
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By 1861, there were 40 houses in the township housing 193 people. A road board district was formed in 1865 and Dandenong ... many workers, especially European migrants. The Housing Commission established the new suburb of Doveton, north of the Princes Highway ...
... on Thornbury Hill in High Street. There was well established housing for workers at the Glen Iris brick works, Hutton Street, west of the ... after World War II there was still empty land. The Housing Commission built its east Northcote estate in the 1950s-60s. Thornbury high ...
... development happened quickly in the early postwar years. The Housing Commission built large residential estates in the east of Reservoir and ...
... near its boundary with Geelong. Ocean Grove also had a housing boom, its population nearly tripling to 1350 between 1947 and 1954. The Victorian Housing Commission built estates of 300 and 500 dwellings at Newcomb and Whittington. ...
... power house was later integrated with the State Electricity Commission’s generation plant providing power for both railways and the ... and the bowling green. Further west of the shopping centre housing development was uncompleted until the postwar years. Newport West ...
... council building inspection service led to a burst of cheap housing, exacerbated by shortages of building materials. Subdividers provided ... for land and houses nevertheless persisted, and the Housing Commission began an estate on a former pine tree plantation in the 1950s. The ...
... until other schools were built. Between 1947 and 1966 the Housing Commission built about 2600 dwellings in east Preston and Reservoir. In 1966 ...
... of population in North Melbourne produced some congested housing conditions. During the 1930s the slum reclamation movement recorded ... receiving ten minutes of sunshine a day. In 1940 the Housing Commission declared a slum reclamation area of 2 hectares between Molesworth ...
