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The heart of Thornbury is known as Thornbury Village, [2] and is located at the centre of Thornbury, at the intersection of High Street and Normanby Avenue/Clarendon Street. Thornbury is shaped as a thin strip of land sandwiched between Northcote and Preston. Its east–west distance is four times its north–south distance. For 111 years ...
626-628 High St Thornbury ... H2287: 212-220 High St Northcote 1911-12 9 June 2011 Preston Tramway Workshops ... H2031: 16-18 Miller St Preston, Victoria
The High Street is on the edge of the town to the west. The Plain is at the north end of the High Street, notable for the pump in the middle of the road. Castle Street heads north from the Plain to Thornbury Castle and St Mary's Church; it passes several older buildings including The Chantry, which is now used by the community association (TDCA ...
St Georges Road starts at the intersection with Murray Road and Spring Street in Preston along a wide dual-carriageway alignment, varying between four and six lanes, heading south to cross Bell Street until meeting Murray Street in Thornbury, where a tram line branches from both Murray Street and the adjacent Preston Workshops to run in a dedicated median in the middle of the road.
The Northern Pipe Trail (previously known as the St Georges Road Trail), is a shared-use path for cyclists and pedestrians that follows Cheddar and St Georges Roads in the northern suburbs of Reservoir, Preston and Thornbury in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. [1] [2] [3]
Thornbury Rural District Council, which was established in 1894, [9] was not involved in the operation of the courthouse and instead established itself in council offices in Castle Street. [10] The building in the High Street continued to operate as a police station until 1973, when a new police station opened in Rock Street, and continued to ...
Melbourne tram route 86 is a tram route on the Melbourne tramway network serving the city of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia.Operated by Yarra Trams, the route is coloured yellow and extends from Bundoora RMIT to Waterfront City over 22.2-kilometre (13.8 mi) of double track via Reservoir, Preston, Thornbury, Northcote, Clifton Hill, Collingwood, Fitzroy, East Melbourne and Bourke Street.
Cossham was born in High Street, Thornbury, in a house where his father, grandfather and great-grandfather were also born. His father Jesse Cossham, a carpenter and builder, named his son after the composer of Messiah, George Frederic Handel. A plaque at his birthplace describes him as a "non-conformist Preacher, Industrialist, Geologist ...