Everything about Richmond Victoria totally explained
Richmond is an
inner city suburb of
Melbourne,
Victoria,
Australia. It is in the
Local Government Area of the
City of Yarra. Richmond has three of the 82 designated Major
Activity Centres in the
Melbourne 2030 Metropolitan Strategy - the commercial strips of
Victoria Street,
Bridge Road and
Swan Street.
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.
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.
- The Mountain View Hotel, formerly Ron Barassi's pub, 70 Bridge Road
- 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:
- The Corner Hotel, a bastion of live music in Melbourne. (External Link
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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.
- 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.
Image:Richmond town hall melbourne.jpg|Richmond Town Hall on Bridge Road
Image:Fallons prince alfred hotel cremorne victoria.jpg|Prince Alfred Hotel. Church Street.
Image:Swan hotel richmond.jpg|Swan Hotel
Image:Pelaco factory in richmond victoria.jpg|The Pelaco Factory and sign is a local Richmond landmark and visible from miles away.
Image:Shop buildings on bridge road richmond.jpg|Wustermann's Buildings, Bridge Road
Image:P3060012.jpg|Richmond Power Station
Image:Loyal studley hotel abbotsford.jpg|Loyal Studley Hotel, Burnley Street
Image:Victoria_gardens_shopping_centre_abbotsford.jpg|Victoria Gardens, cnr Burnley and Victoria Street
Image:Grand central hotel richmond.jpg|Grand Central Hotel, Coppin Street
Image:Burnley theatre richmond.jpg|Burnley Theatre, Swan Street
Image:450 burnley street richmond.jpg|450 Swan Street
Image:GTV9 3.jpg|GTV, Nine Network studios on Bendigo Street
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
bluestone 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.
Image:13_James_Street_Richmond.jpg|13 & 15 James Street
Image:Malthouse richmond.jpg|The Malthouse, silos converted into apartments.
Image:Lalor house richmond victoria.jpg|Lalor House
Image:Edwardian_terrace_houses_in_richmond_victoria.jpg|Double storey Edwardian terrace houses
Image:Terrace houses in richmond.jpg|Subdued two storey brick Victorian terraces
Image:Hillside terrace richmond victoria.jpg|Hillside Terrace. Punt Road.
Image:Terrace housing on erin street richmond victoria.jpg|Victorian terrace housing on Erin Street.
Image:Epworth repatriation mansion richmond victoria.jpg|Italianate mansion at Epworth Hospital
Public Space
Richmond does have some parks and gardens and reserves but they're notably absent in the main centre 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 large Catholic community is served by
St. Ignatius' Church on Church Street and St. James Parish. Anglicans also have a presence in Richmond served by St. Stephens, next door to St. Ignatius Church. A Uniting Church also serves its members with a Fijian presence located on Church Street.
There is also a large
Assemblies of God Church (
Richmond AOG) in Griffiths Street.
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, and Yarra Primary School. The former St. Ignatius School was closed at the end of 2005 marking an end to over a hundred years of presence serving the local Catholic community. Former notable students included Richmond football club legends,
Kevin Sheedy and the late
Jack Dyer. The school amalgamated with St. James Primary School to form the Jesuit run, Trinity Catholic School that opened in the start of 2006 on the grounds occupied by the former St. James Primary School.
The
Melba Memorial Conservatorium of Music, affiliated with
Victoria University, is located in York Street, Richmond.
Kangan Batman TAFE has a presence in Burnley.
Transport
Richmond has an established transport system involving
arterial roads, five
train stations, seven
tram routes, a bus route and a series of bicycle trails including the
Capital City Trail and the
Yarra River Trail.
Richmond is served by tram numbers
24 and
109 on
Victoria Street, tram numbers
78 and
79 on
Church Street, tram numbers
48 and
75 on Bridge Road and tram number
70 on
Swan Street.
The main train station in Richmond is
Richmond railway station, it's an
interchange for all metropolitan passenger trains to the eastern and south-eastern suburbs, viz. the
Pakenham,
Cranbourne,
Frankston,
Lilydale,
Belgrave,
Glen Waverley and
Alamein lines.
Other train stations in Richmond include
Burnley,
East Richmond,
North Richmond and
West Richmond.
Health
Epworth Hospital (
private) is a major surgical hospital, it has a major campus in Richmond fronting both Bridge Road and Erin Street.
The Melbourne Clinic (
private) is a major psychiatric facility, it's in Church 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.Further Information
Get more info on 'Richmond Victoria'.
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