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Geelong Western Cemetery is a cemetery located on Minerva Road, Herne Hill in the city of Geelong, Victoria in Australia. The first burial taking place on 12 January 1858. The cemetery was known under various names during its history; New Cemetery, New General Cemetery, Herne Hill Cemetery, Newtown Cemetery.
Fifth of the eighth children of Joseph James (1856–1902), and Martha James (1857–1930), née Smith, Leslie Joseph James was born at Geelong on 29 June 1890. He married Alice May Ward (1888–1963) in 1913. They had two children: Leslie Thomas James (1913–1979), and Iris May James (1915–1993). [2]
Ralph Abercrombie, Auditor-General, was born in Mount Duneed on 19 July 1881 and lived there until 1882.His father was the local school teacher. [10]Rupert Vance "Mick" Moon, Victoria Cross recipient lived at "Calder Park", Mount Duneed from 1954 - 1978 and is buried at the Mount Duneed Cemetery.
Hamilton Highway commences at the intersection of Latrobe Terrace and Portarlington Road in Geelong and heads in a westerly direction as a two-lane, single carriageway through Fyansford, crossing the Barwon River and an interchange with Geelong Ring Road, before leaving the Geelong suburbs and continuing west as a rural highway through the localities of Inverleigh, Cressy, Lismore, Mortlake ...
The original maps from the first edition can be viewed online via a clickable map. [ 8 ] By the early 1980s, Melway was the most popular street directory in Melbourne, holding over 80 per cent of the market, and "Melway" had begun to be used as a generic term for any street directory.
The City of Geelong was a local government area about 75 kilometres (47 mi) southwest of Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria, Australia. The city covered an area of 13.4 square kilometres (5.2 sq mi), and existed from 1849 until 1993.
Bellarine Highway begins at the intersection of Latrobe Terrace and McKillop Street on the western edge of central Geelong.As McKillop Street, it runs east as a four-lane, dual-carriageway road through Geelong, where it eventually intersects with and changes its name to Ormond Road, running south-east until the intersection with Boundary Road on the eastern edge of central Geelong.
Geelong is also home to the oldest state secondary school in Victoria, Geelong High School (est. 1910 [167]), which has been serving the community for over 100 years. The Gordon Memorial Technical College opened in 1888, and is known today as the Gordon Institute of TAFE . [ 18 ]