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From the 1990s, the industrial districts of South Melbourne, closer to the city, and including Southbank, have been redeveloped with mid and high rise apartments; in 1996 the most intensively developed part of Southbank was transferred to the City of Melbourne. At the same time, the City of South Melbourne was amalgamated with the Cities of St ...
The standardisation of time in Australia began in 1892, when surveyors from the six colonies in Australia met in Melbourne for the Intercolonial Conference of Surveyors. . The delegates accepted the recommendation of the 1884 International Meridian Conference to adopt Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) as the basis for standard t
He was Port Melbourne's leading goalkicker each year from 1890 to 1893, including kicking 40 goals in the 1892 season. [2] Highly sought after, he joined the neighbouring South Melbourne Football Club – at that time a bitter rival of Port Melbourne – in 1894; but Port Melbourne refused to transfer him, and he ultimately stood out of ...
Peter Lawrence Anthony "Wheels" Bedford (born 11 April 1947) is a former Australian rules footballer and first-class cricketer.As a footballer, he is best known for his time at South Melbourne, where he won Victorian Football League's (VFL's) Brownlow Medal in 1970 as the fairest and the best in the competition.
The City of South Melbourne was a local government area about 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) south of Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria, Australia, on the south bank of the Yarra River. The city covered an area of 8.91 square kilometres (3.44 sq mi), and existed from 1855 until 1994.
At the end of the 1896 season, Collingwood and South Melbourne finished equal at the top of the VFA's premiership ladder with records of 14–3–1, requiring a playoff match to determine the season's premiership; this was the first time this had occurred in VFA history. [32]
South Melbourne Districts was formed in 1912, although its origins can be traced back to the Pembroke Juniors who played in the mid-1890s. [6] [7] The club entered the Victorian Junior Football Association (VJFA) in 1914, finishing fourth on the ladder, before being defeated by Port Melbourne Railway United by 51 points in the grand final.
South Melbourne Town Hall is a landmark civic building located on Bank Street in South Melbourne, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It is listed on the Victorian Heritage Register as of state heritage significance to Victoria.