Some History and facts about Richmond ...
Can you hear the howling noise of racing cars? Then it might be Formula 1 season in Albert Park and you are in Richmond.
Richmond - Melbourne, Victoria 3121, Australia established in the 19th century is governed by the City of Yarra council, and has a colourful and interesting history.
Today it gives about 20,000 people their home and living area on about 4 square kilometres.
Richmond is an inner city suburb of Melbourne found in the middle of the following suburbs:
Abbotsford, Burnley, Collingwood, Cremorne, East Melbourne, Hawthorn and South Yarra.
Activities since the early 1990s Richmond now shows a variety of highly priced converted warehouse appartments, public high-rise flats and Victorian stile terrace houses. Whilst the retail sector is increasingly lively the industrial and manufacturing base is melting away.
Bridge Road is well known and mentioned in tourist tour guides for its factory outlets mainly selling textile products.
A 'must visit' for visitors is the Richmond Town Hall, all the Vietnamese restaurants and snack places at Victoria Street located at Richmond's north
housing as well the Victoria Gardens Shopping Centre. with lots of outlets and the northern European furniture brand known for their product range in pine.
Even the mayor landmark is DimmeyS warehouse Swan Street offers more entertainment venues some with live music like, The Corner Hotel, The Swan built in 1890, and The Rising Sun at the corner of Burnley Street. But here in Swan Street a bit furter down at number 450 you can enjoy an outstanding example of deconstructivist architecture by Ashton Raggart McDougall completed in 1995 and combining an old bank and a modern building. Not too far away still showing some elements of the original foyer and stage - The Burnley Theatre - today a commercial homewares shop.
In Church Street crossing and connecting all the named Streets you find not exactly a surprise - the church St Ignatius, but Churcher's Restaurant clost to it as well.
Relaxation for body and mind can be found at the beergarden of the Prince Alfred Hotel close to the river Yarra short before the church becomes a chapel - where Chapel street starts.
Naming all those Streets we can't leave out Punt Road, turning into Hoddle Street which is one of the main tangents connecting the outside world with Melbourne. Traffic jams are a every day picture for Punt Road, but connecting to the home ground of the Richmond Football Club therew are times it turns to a parking lane with no moving parts at all.
The Victoria Gardens Shopping Centre built in 2001 is an extensive 'state of these times' complex servicing inner eastern suburbs of Melbourne.
In 1891 was the year where The Loyal Studley Hotel - today a homewares shop, and the Richmond Power Station was built. The Burnley Theatre is but . 450 Swan Street, completed in 1995
Some of Richmond's landmarks therefore should be on a visitor's list...
The Pelaco Factory, Wustermann's Buildings at Bridge Road, Richmond Power Station, Loyal Studley Hotel at Burnley Street, Victoria Gardens at the corner of Burnley and Victoria Street, Grand Central Hotel at Coppin Street, Burnley Theatre at Swan Street.
Richmond has some of Melbourne's best examples of residential architecture from periods accross the past found within plenty of small homes in narrow streets.
Nonda Katsalidis, an award winning architect converted the silos of The Malthouse into flats.
Other samples are the 1857 built blue stone terrace homes at 13/15 James Street, the rustic Gothic style is classified to be 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.
But not only houses are here, Richmond has some parks, gardens and reserves off the suburb's main center.
The Citizens Park at the Richmond Oval the largest park is bordering on Church and Higett Streets. Beside the Barkly Gardens and the Allen Bain Reserve one would find a number of smaller parks and relexation areas.
Melbourne is not short of parks and so you find nearby the Yarra Park, the Melbourne Park in East Melbourne, (Jolimont) the Golden Square Bicentennial Park, the Burnley Park, the Burnley Golf Course (survey paddock), the Pridmore Park, Yarra Bank Reserve, Creswick Street Reserve, St James Park in Hawthorn, the Dickinsons Reserve, the Yarra Bend Park, the Studley Park Golf Course and Studley Park in Kew.
A funeral for Van Tuong Nguyen, who was executed in Singapore for drug smuggling, was held in 2005 at this Richmond's St James Parish. A memorial was held the day he was executed just before 9am, his scheduled execution.
St. Kevin's College (Waterford Campus), Lynall Hall Community School and Melbourne Girls' College are Richmond's the three high schools. Primary schools in Richmond are the Richmond Primary School, the Richmond West Primary School, St. James Primary School, St.Ignatius Catholic Primary School and Yarra Primary School.
The public transport system in Richmond involves a bus route, eight tram lines (number 24, 27 and 109 on Victoria Street, trams number 78 and 79 on Church Street, trams number 48 and 75 on Bridge Road and tram number 70 on Swan Street), a series of bicycle trails including the Capital City Trail and the Yarra River Trail as well as four train stations from which the Richmond railway station is a hub for trains to eastern and south-eastern suburbs including the Sandringham, Frankston, Cranbourne and Pakenham lines. The interchange for the Glen Waverley line North Richmond, East Richmond and West Richmond stations is the Burnley station.
Fronting both Bridge Road and Erin Street you'll find the major parts of the private Epworth Hospital.
