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| Population: | 6,541 (2006) [1] | ||||||||||||
| Postcode: | 3043 | ||||||||||||
| Area: | 6.9 km² (2.7 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
| Location: | 17 km (11 mi) from Melbourne | ||||||||||||
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| State District: | Yuroke, Niddrie | ||||||||||||
| Federal Division: | Calwell, Maribyrnong | ||||||||||||
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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.
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The name is thought to derive from Tullamareena, 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. [2] 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 1,014 acres (4.10 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 acres (0.80 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 (28,000 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.
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.
Tullamarine has one football club, the Tullamarine Demons, who are competing in the Essendon District Football League (EDFL).
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.
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.
When OzJet, an airline, existed, its head office was in Tullamarine.[3]
There are currently five public bus routes that run through Tullamarine.
Railway Stations nearest to Tullamarine are Broadmeadows and Jacana, both on the Craigieburn line.
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