39-478: Royal Parade may refer to: Royal Parade – street in Melbourne Royal Parade (patience) , an old English patience game Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Royal Parade . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to
78-415: A house on the corner of Bourke and Spencer streets where, in retirement, he tended his trees, played organ and flute and translated Spanish. In 1840, Hoddle was granted a gratuity of £500 as he was leaving the survey department on account of ill-health. However, after a few months holiday he recovered his health, took up his duties again, and the gratuity was not paid to him. He later did valuable work in
117-506: A large block of apartments. Numbers of older buildings were then assessed by Heritage Victoria and placed on the register of significant buildings. Royal Parade itself was listed by Heritage Victoria in 2009, as a site of State significance, being a fine example of the internationally City Beautiful planning movement. As a part of the Hume Highway, the road was signed as National Route 31 in 1954. The Whitlam government introduced
156-652: Is credited with the subdivisions of Carlton, Fitzroy North and South Geelong that include formal parks, squares and crescents. Robert Hoddle is the earliest-known European artist to have depicted the Australian Capital Territory area. Many of his works are held in the National Library of Australia , State Library of Victoria and the State Library of New South Wales . Some of the paintings he made during this time are held at
195-414: Is dated 25 March 1837, and covered the area from Flinders Street to Lonsdale Street , and from Spencer Street to Spring Street . The principal streets were one and a half chains wide (30 m), and at the insistence of Bourke, smaller east–west streets a half chain wide (10 m) were inserted, intended to furnish back entrances (but quickly became frontages in their own right). This layout came to be known as
234-554: The Craigieburn bypass opened). The passing of the Road Management Act 2004 granted the responsibility of overall management and development of Victoria's major arterial roads to VicRoads : in 2004, VicRoads declared this road as Royal Parade (Arterial #5979), beginning from Brunswick Road, Brunswick and ending at Grattan Street, Parkville . Listed in order, moving South to North up Royal Parade, away from
273-559: The Hoddle Grid . In 1837, at the same time as Melbourne, Hoddle laid out the first blocks of Williamstown , but without rear laneways. In 1838 he laid out Geelong , including narrow laneways as in the Melbourne grid. His layouts for each were typical of the time, being square or rectangular grids, aligned with features such as rivers or waterfront, surrounded by government reserve for future expansion, government buildings, ports and
312-527: The Zoological Gardens . The tram line that runs on Royal Parade itself was electrified in 1935, the conversion from a cable system requiring the installation of poles and sets of overhead wires, the construction of a depot in Brunswick and the purchase of 40 new tramcars, at a total cost of £500,000. In 1936, some trees in a section of the plantings near Janet Clarke Hall were removed to make
351-546: The 1850s, the roads of Parkville became more formalised, but the road's poor state of repair was a constant concern, even after its upkeep was put in the hands of the City in 1865 with the costs subsidised from the toll paid for users of the road further out in Brunswick. Initially part of Royal Park , sections of land on the western side of Royal Parade were progressively sold for housing, commencing in 1868. A Crown covenant
390-875: The Australian colonies, arriving in Sydney , New South Wales , aboard the William Penn in July 1823. Governor Brisbane appointed him assistant surveyor under Surveyor-General John Oxley . Hoddle spent the next twelve years in Queensland and later still in New South Wales where he surveyed the sites for the towns of Berrima and Goulburn as well as Bell's Line of Road in the Blue Mountains . Between 1830 and 1836, Hoddle made several visits to
429-616: The City. [REDACTED] Australian Roads portal Robert Hoddle Robert Hoddle (21 April 1794 – 24 October 1881) was a surveyor and artist. He was the first Surveyor-General of Victoria from 1851 to 1853. He was previously the Surveyor-in-Charge of the Port Phillip District from 1837 to 1851. He became Surveyor-General upon the proclamation of the Port Phillip District as
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#1732772667888468-485: The National Library of Australia. They include: Additional works by Hoddle include: William Lonsdale appointed Hoddle as auctioneer at the first sale of crown land on 1 June 1837, at which he sold half-acre (0.2 ha) allotments for £18 to £78, considered at the time a very high price. Hoddle's commission was £57 12s. 7d., from which he bought two allotments for himself at a cost of £54. Hoddle built himself
507-670: The Victorian towns of Emerald , Inverloch and Riddells Creek . Tram route 19 , which runs from Bakers Road in Coburg North to Flinders Street station in the city runs the entire length of Royal Parade on part of its route. Bus routes 50 ( Moonee Ponds Junction to Melbourne University ) and 546 ( Heidelberg to Melbourne University) use Royal Parade. Historically part of the Hume Highway from Melbourne to Sydney , it used to be signed as National Highway 31, but since
546-751: The area now occupied by Canberra , Australia's National Capital. Hoddle, the son of a bank clerk for the Bank of England , was born in Westminster , London . He became a cadet-surveyor in the British army in 1812. Hoddle worked in the Ordnance Department and took part in the trigonometrical survey of Great Britain. Hoddle then sailed for the Cape Colony , South Africa in 1822 where he worked on military surveys. Hoddle migrated to
585-423: The area: The Sydney-road, when planted, will be as fine an approach as any city in the world can boast. It is three chains wide, and there will be a row of trees on each side at a distance of 26ft. from the building line; half a chain from these will be second rows of trees, so that there will remain a 66ft. road in the middle for heavy traffic, and an avenue on either side available for light traffic, and all under
624-605: The country districts of Victoria, became Surveyor General of Victoria in 1851, and retired in July 1853 with a pension of £1,000 a year. He had bought in 1837 the block of land in Elizabeth Street, Melbourne, on which the Commonwealth Bank now stands, for a comparatively small sum, and he became a wealthy man. After his retirement he took an interest in the Old Colonists' Association and was elected
663-566: The federal National Roads Act 1974 , where roads declared as a National Highway were still the responsibility of the states for road construction and maintenance, but were fully compensated by the Federal government for money spent on approved projects. As an important interstate link between the capitals of Victoria and New South Wales, Royal Parade (as the Hume Highway) was declared a National Highway in 1974. The National Highway 31 route
702-559: The first time, thus reducing dust significantly, and decorative rockeries were created between the trees. Further works were carried out in 1916 with the assistance of State Government loans to the City Council for public works: More than any other thoroughfare, Royal parade, or Sydney road, as it is more familiarly called, will benefit from the Government loan. In recent years the council has expended large sums of money to improve
741-477: The injury of working cattle. On 28 October 1878, the City Council resolved to adopt the name "Royal Parade", however it took many years for "Sydney Road" to be replaced in common speech. In April 1879, Alderman James Gatehouse was reported as moving the adoption by the City Council of a report recommending the construction of a "tramway for heavy traffic along the Royal-parade (Sydney-road)". Council debated
780-511: The intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Royal_Parade&oldid=1169384654 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Royal Parade, Melbourne Royal Parade is a major urban road in Victoria , Australia , linking Melbourne City to Brunswick and
819-529: The intersection of Park Street. For its northern half, it forms the western boundary of Princes Park , Carlton North . Near its northern end, Royal Parade crosses an underpass previously housing the Inner Circle railway line which operated from 1888 to 1981. The road is not to be confused with other and smaller roads called "Royal Parade" in the Melbourne suburbs of Caulfield South , Parkdale / Mordialloc , Pascoe Vale South and Reservoir as well as in
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#1732772667888858-414: The like. Hoddle subdivided the land beyond the angled city grid on a one-mile north–south grid, creating much larger allotments. The areas closest to the city in what is now Fitzroy , Collingwood and Richmond , were soon subdivided by speculators creating the sometimes quite narrow streets and irregular grid pattern. Hoddle's subdivision of East Melbourne was far more regular. Hoddle was in favour of
897-409: The loan money was made available some months ago, the council decided to further improve Royal parade by wood blocking the road between the tram track and the two strips of gardens, and to form a macadam road on the outside of the garden strips. Prior to that time, the central roadway was not sufficiently wide to allow the safe passage of two vehicles travelling abreast, and, to enable this to be done, it
936-501: The merits of a tramway "from the Sarah Sands Hotel to Grattan-street for the use of the brick traffic from Brunswick" for several months before it proceeded at a cost of just over £3,000. In 1913, the road was transformed again, with the original planting replaced with 400 English elms in four rows, separating the double-width central carriageway from the two outer service lanes. The central lanes were sealed with tarmac for
975-602: The new Colony of Victoria within the British Empire in July 1851. He is especially recognized for the design and layout of the Hoddle Grid in 1837, the area which forms the Melbourne central business district (CBD) of Melbourne . He was also an accomplished artist and depicted scenes of the Port Phillip region and New South Wales. Hoddle was one of the earliest-known European artists to depict Ginninderra ,
1014-559: The northern suburbs. It is the site of major educational and sporting facilities as well as several buildings of heritage significance. Royal Parade runs as a continuation from the northern end of Elizabeth Street , in Melbourne City, at the intersection with the east-west Grattan Street in Carlton . It runs north-south through the centre of the suburb of Parkville and terminates at the beginning of Sydney Road in Brunswick at
1053-548: The opening of the Craigieburn Bypass in 2005 this section was replaced with Metropolitan Route 55. Originally following the stock-route bearing north out of the settlement of Melbourne in the 1830s, the "Sydney road" that wound through what is now Princes Park was aligned in about 1852 along the north-south datum line established by surveyor Robert Hoddle . With the founding of the University of Melbourne in
1092-414: The principal entry streets being a generous width of 60m, which he applied to what are now Melbourne's tree-lined boulevards, such as St Kilda Road , Victoria Parade , Elizabeth Street in Carlton , and the roads branching off that: Royal Parade and Flemington Road . He advocated widening the other existing major roads without success. In 1853 he was gently asked to retire in favour of Andrew Young, who
1131-413: The road safer for motorists after a further series of accidents. Many of the large palm trees that had been interplanted between the elms were removed in 1947 as part of a further beautification scheme by the City Council. Some palms remain in the northern section of Princes Park. Where the road crossed the underpass for the now-closed Inner Circle railway line , the relatively narrow bridge meant that
1170-714: The rural district now occupied by the Australian Capital Territory where he surveyed property boundaries. Squatters were urgently pressing for government surveyors to legalise their rural holdings. Hoddle's field book indexes the history of the aforementioned areas and pastoralists— George Palmer , Robert Campbell and Hamilton Hume . Hoddle arrived in Port Phillip , the future site for Melbourne, in March 1837 in company with Governor Bourke , as senior surveyor with his assistants D'Arcy and Darke. He
1209-411: The shelter of trees. Other improvements to this road are in progress, in the way of kerbing, footpath-making, and draining, and when the trees now about to be planted have fairly established themselves there will be nothing left wanting to its completeness, except to cut down, to the extent of 6ft or 8ft, [a] hill that obstructs the road at the top of Elizabeth-street, to the detriment of the scenery and to
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1248-489: The street in conformity with the general plan for the beautification of the metropolis. The great width of the road has permitted the construction of two parallel lines of ornamental flower gardens, and, after considerable labour and expense, these have been brought to such a state us to reflect great credit upon the municipality. At a point beyond the Hay Market, the work on the gardens was finished about two years ago. When
1287-425: The two side avenues became dead ends. Accidents resulted from drivers not realising that the avenues did not continue over the bridge. These included a bus crashing through the boundary fence on 19 June 1924, and falling 40 feet down the cutting onto the tracks, and the death of Mr Samuel Keage, a local architect, on 7 November 1924, when his car similarly ran down the cutting on to the tracks. A few weeks before Keage
1326-484: Was decided to widen the roadway two feet on each side. This necessitated the cutting into the gardens to the extent of two feet. It is estimated that the total cost of the improvements will amount to £40,000. Also in 1916, it was finally agreed to move the hay, cattle and pig markets situated at the Elizabeth Street end of the Parade. From 1889 until it was closed in 1923, a horse-drawn tram operated from Royal Parade to
1365-479: Was enacted in 1870, regulating such aspects as the height and position of the houses in the northern sections of Royal Parade. The covenant was annulled in 1972. In 1878 the Melbourne City Council created a tree-lined boulevard "from Grattan-street to the Brunswick boundary" measuring almost 200 feet wide, by planting 816 trees in four rows as part of a scheme that included several major roads in
1404-628: Was extended south beyond Royal Parade in 1988, along Elizabeth and Peel Streets through the Docklands district to eventually end at the Montague Street interchange with the West Gate Freeway when its extension was opened in the same year. With Victoria's conversion to the newer alphanumeric system in the late 1990s, Royal Parade remained signed as National Highway 31, eventually replaced with Metropolitan Route 55 in 2005 (when
1443-542: Was killed the Melbourne City Council had let a contract, at a cost of £4,600, for extensions to each side of the underpass to allow for the continuation of the side avenues. On 12 August 2019, Associate Professor Allison Milner, a 36-year-old researcher in social epidemiology at the University of Melbourne died from injuries received when one of the elm trees along Princes Park fell on her while she
1482-486: Was to take charge of the surveying work which had been begun by Robert Russell , who many years later claimed to have surveyed the first grid of streets. Whether Hoddle surveyed from scratch or used Russell's initial survey has been the subject of controversy, but they both followed the then standard grid layout and alignment. Hoddle's survey, a copy of which survives in the Public Record Office of Victoria,
1521-654: Was walking to work. The 106-year-old trees had been inspected in July that year, but no risk was identified. Drought and nearby construction works were thought to have contributed to a weakening of the root system. Beginning in the 1930s, the large homes built between 1880 and World War I began to be demolished and replaced with higher density housing. Blocks of two-storey flats with Art Deco styling can be seen at 283 Royal Parade ("Park Court") and 311 Royal Parade ("Royal Court"). Of particular significance were houses such as "Mount Ievers" (see Notable Former Residents, below), built in 1890 and demolished in 1975 to be replaced with
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