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Shepperton was the home of author J. G. Ballard, the so-called "Seer of Shepperton", [55] [56] and provides the setting for his novels Crash (in which a couple become sexually aroused through car crashes and was written as the M3 motorway was being built past the end of his street) and The Unlimited Dream Company. [57] [n 6]
Most Shepparton Albanians originate from the Korçë region in south-eastern Albania. [14] The Shepparton Albanian community began with immigrants arriving in Fremantle, Western Australia (1924), later relocating to Queensland for agricultural employment, and eventually moving to Shepparton (mid 1920s) becoming one of the earliest Muslim communities to settle there.
In local media, negativity toward post-war Shepparton Albanians sharply decreased and they were depicted as hard-working people with civic participation in the town. [47] In the early 1950s, Shepparton Albanians established their own Albanian Muslim Society and fund-raised in their community, and built Victoria's first mosque in the late 1950s.
Shepparton: Albanian Mosque: 1960 Sunni - Albanian community Built by the Albanian community in the late 1950s, it is the first [15] [27] and oldest mosque in both Shepparton and Victoria. [20] [28] Mooroopna: Mooroopna Mosque Sunni - Turkish community
[54] [55] [56] They worked in hard labour jobs and farming, settled in northern Western Australia, Queensland and later Shepparton in Victoria were a successful community was established. [57] Post-war, refugees mainly from Albania and a few from southern Yugoslavia arrived.
Shepparton (/ ˈ ʃ ɛ p ər t ən /) [4] (Yortayorta: Kanny-goopna) [5] is a city located on the floodplain of the Goulburn River in northern Victoria, Australia, approximately 181 kilometres (112 mi) north-northeast of Melbourne.
Shepperton Studios is a film studio located in Shepperton, Surrey, England, with a history dating back to 1931. It is now part of the Pinewood Studios Group . During its early existence, the studio was branded as Sound City (not to be confused with the Californian recording studio of the same name ).
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