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14-584: Hamilton Hill may refer to: Hamilton Hill, Western Australia , a suburb of the city of Perth, Australia Hamilton Hill, Schenectady, New York , a neighborhood in the city of Schenectady, New York Hamilton Hill (singer) (1871–1910), Australian baritone singer Hamilton Hill (comics) , the fictional mayor of Gotham City in the DC Comics continuity See also [ edit ] Hamilton Hills , neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland Topics referred to by

28-585: A nearby school and closure of the site in late 2017, Fremantle Christian College remains the only mainstream secondary school in Hamilton Hill. Manning Reserve is a 900-acre (3.6 km ) reserve in southwestern Hamilton Hill. Its name comes from the family who were well known in the area from 1859 onwards. A historical building, the Azelia Ley Homestead Museum, is located within the boundaries of Manning Reserve. This building

42-508: Is a result of the enrolment age changing for students entering high school in Western Australia. On 12 December 1962 a worker, Velko Garbin, suffered fatal injuries sustained by a nail gun incident during the construction of the school. A plaque honouring him was placed in the entry of the school library. The school suffered an arson attack in 2010 when a metal shed was set alight, causing A$ 100,000 in damage. Plans to close

56-449: Is bounded by Cockburn Road to the west, Phoenix Road to the south, Stock Road to the east and Jean Street and Winterfold Road to the north. Hamilton Hill has three public primary schools, East Hamilton Hill Primary School, Phoenix Primary School and Southwell Primary School, and one independent combined primary and secondary school, Fremantle Christian College. With the merger of the long-serving public Hamilton Senior High School with

70-453: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Hamilton Hill, Western Australia Hamilton Hill is a suburb of Perth , the capital city of Western Australia , located 23 kilometres (14 mi) southwest the central business district . Its local government area is the City of Cockburn . The earliest known settler at Hamilton Hill

84-756: Is now occupied by tenants and continues to operate as a licensed stable. [REDACTED] Media related to Hamilton Hill, Western Australia at Wikimedia Commons Hamilton Senior High School Hamilton Senior High School was a public co-educational high day school on Purvis Street in Hamilton Hill , a suburb of Perth , Western Australia. The school was often referred to as Hamilton Hill Senior High School , and educated students in Year 7 to Year 12 from its establishment in 1962 until its closure on 15 December 2017  ( 2017-12-15 ) . After opening in 1962, an enrolment of 1350 students

98-589: The family farm. This house became derelict after Azelia died in 1954, but was restored by the Historical Society of Cockburn in 1983 and now serves as a comprehensive Azelia Ley Homestead Museum of artefacts pertaining to the Cockburn district. At the turn of the century South Fremantle and the northern parts of Cockburn like Hamilton Hill became the location of semi rural industries such as market gardening and horse racing stables. Hamilton Hill

112-530: The first horse races in the Swan River Colony held at South Beach on 3 October 1833. Horse stables were a characteristic feature in residential areas located near South Beach. At the height of the horse racing industry it is believed 400 horses were stabled in the area and trained at South Beach. Randwick Stables comprises a series of paddocks, a timber framed bungalow, stables, laundry stone well, water closet and metal clad stables. Randwick Stables

126-423: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Hamilton Hill . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hamilton_Hill&oldid=1133855064 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

140-506: The school and merge students with South Fremantle Senior High School as a new school were announced in December 2014. The larger number of students would allow for more opportunities and subjects for students. The school was closed permanently at the end of the 2017 school year. From 2018, Hamilton Senior High School students joined students of the also-defunct South Fremantle Senior High School to form Fremantle College . The buildings of

154-673: Was Sydney Smith, the agent of Captain George Robb. Robb arrived in Western Australia in 1830 and took up land south of Fremantle. During the next twelve months Smith was actively engaged in establishing Robb's farm. In a letter dated 27 August 1830, he gives his address as Hamilton Hill. The origin of the name, and whether it was Robb or Smith who did the naming, remains uncertain but the area has been known as such ever since. In 1860 Charles Alexander Manning bought 364 ha (900 acres) of Robb's land, and six years later built Davilak House for his son Lucius Manning. The house of twelve rooms,

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168-516: Was built using convict labour and was owned by the Manning family until they abandoned it in the late 1950s. It burnt down in 1960, and after this the Shire of Cockburn took over the administration of the whole estate. A second homestead was built in 1920 by the eldest daughter of Lucius Manning, Azelia Ley. She had married John Morgan Ley in 1900, and after he died in 1927 she continued to maintain

182-512: Was reached by 1971. The large enrolment numbers and other factors led to the introduction of the "sub-school" system at Hamilton Senior High School from 1975, consisting of three lower-school sub-schools—Delta, Grinceri (later renamed Leda), and Omega—each containing students from years 8 to 10, with students in years 11 and 12 in a separate upper school. The school enrolled 696 students in 2007, 675 in 2008, 711 in 2009, then fell to 622 in 2010 and to 580 in 2011. The fall in student numbers from 2010

196-512: Was restored by the Cockburn Council and prominent residents in 1983. Randwick Stable, Hamilton Hill, is a heritage listed, working horse stable that adjoins Clontarf Hill another landmark in Hamilton Hill. The stables complex was erected in the 1920s for Frederick Charles John "Jack" Marks, one of the prominent horse-racing Marks family. Horse racing played an integral role in the development of South Fremantle and Hamilton Hill with

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