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Beaumaris, Victoria

January 22, 2023

For other places with the same name, see Beaumaris (disambiguation).

Beaumaris (/boʊˈmɒrɪs/ bo-MAR-is) is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 20km south-east of Melbourne's Central Business District,[2] located within the City of Bayside local government area. Beaumaris recorded a population of 13,947 at the 2021 census.[1]

Beaumaris
Melbourne, Victoria
Watkins Bay viewed from Ricketts Point
Beaumaris
Coordinates37°58′59″S 145°02′36″E / 37.983°S 145.0434°E / -37.983; 145.0434Coordinates: 37°58′59″S 145°02′36″E / 37.983°S 145.0434°E / -37.983; 145.0434
Population13,947 (2021 census)[1]
 • Density2,682/km2 (6,950/sq mi)
Postcode(s)3193
Elevation20 m (66 ft)
Area5.2 km2 (2.0 sq mi)
Location20 km (12 mi) from Melbourne
LGA(s)City of Bayside
State electorate(s)Sandringham
Federal division(s)Goldstein

Beaumaris is located on Port Phillip Bay and is bounded by Reserve Road and Weatherall Road in the north, Charman Road in the east, the Port Phillip Bay foreshore in the south, and McGregor Avenue, Fifth Street, Keating Street, Iluka Street, Fairleigh Avenue and Royal Melbourne Golf Club in the west.

Geology

 
Walter P. Ryland (1907-8) Beaumaris Bay Cliffs, showing geological strata

The blunt 'V' shaped intrusion of land into the Bay that is spearheaded by Table Rock Point is referred to as the Beaumaris 'Peninsula'. The Beaumaris cliffs to the north east of Table Rock are formed by the steeply folded rock layers known as the Beaumaris Monocline, which is considered to be of Tertiary age overlying older structures.[3] These include the underlying Silurian rock known as the Fyansford formation above which is the 15 m thick darker Beaumaris Sandstone, overlain by yellowish Red Bluff Sandstone, as outcrops in the cliffs, ferruginised, with hard ironstone in the upper sections, extending to the platform, and as small reefs parallel to the coastline. A thin calcareous sandstone is overlain by fine sandy marl and sandstone with calcareous concretions. At the base of the sandstone is a thin gravelly bed that includes concretionary nodules of phosphate and iron of which detached nodules may be found around the cliff base.[3][4]

The Monocline can be seen where the cliffs of Beaumaris are locally parallel to the turnover of the monocline, which forms a drainage divide between the Gardners Creek-Dandenong Creeks systems and the Carrum Swamp.[5] Layers in the cliff are almost horizontal, but fold downward almost 30º toward the vertical south-easterly and out to sea.[6] Jagged remains of the strata can be seen off-shore at low tide from the cliff-top walk at the end of Wells Road.[7]

Behind Keefer's Fishermens Wharf the lower level of the cliffs is a fossil site of international significance.[8] Shells, sea urchins, crabs, foraminifera, remains of whales, sharks, rays and dolphins, and also birds and marsupials, dating back to the Late Miocene to Early Pliocene (12 to 6 million years ago) can be found, and have been the subject of a number of papers.[9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16]

History

Indigenous occupation

 
Benjamin Duterrau (1836) Aboriginal Chief Chief Derah Mat (Derrimut), a leader of the Boon wurrung clan

The Bunurong (or Boon Wurrung) peoples of the Kulin nation lived along the Eastern coast of Port Philip Bay for over 20,000 years before white settlement.[17] Their mythology preserves the history of the flooding of Port Phillip Bay 10,000 years ago,[18] and its period of drying and retreat 2,800–1,000 years ago.[19] Visible evidence of their shell middens and hand-dug wells remain along the cliffs of Beaumaris,[20][21] but by the 1850s most withdrew to the Mordialloc Aboriginal Reserve established in 1852, and after the 1860s, to Coranderrk.

European settlement

 
Charles Conder (1890) Rickett's Point, oil on canvas, 31.0 × 77.2 cm, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Purchased, 1951

One of the first white settlers was James Bickford Moysey[22] in 1845,[23] who, along with several other local settlers had Welsh roots, and he gave the name 'Beaumaris' to his pastoral run after the Welsh Town of Beaumaris (Welsh: Biwmares) on the Isle of Anglesey in the Menai Strait, called 'beaux marais' by Norman-French builders of the castle there, a name which translates as "beautiful marshes". Moysey eventually purchased 32 hectares for his farm.[24] There is a monument on the foreshore opposite the hotel where Moysey had built a house.[25]

Beaumaris cemetery

The first Cheltenham settlers, Stephen and Mary Ann Charman, donated land in 1854 that was the first cemetery of the area, established in the churchyard of the small timber Wesleyan Church at the western corner of what is now Balcombe Road and Bickford Court.[26] There, two of the Charman's own babies were buried in 1855 and 1859. Soon reaching capacity, this small cemetery operated for only 11 years with the last known burial in 1866. Other faiths traveled to Brighton to bury their dead. The church building on the site was sold in 1893 and moved to Langwarrin and the land turned over to grazing. In 1954 the Moorabbin Council, faced with growing population and ramping land values, granted a permit to the Methodist Church to subdivide the land. Everest Le Page, Moorabbin Councillor and Cheltenham resident, believing that the previous burial sites may not have been relocated following the closure of the church, argued unsuccessfully against sub-division and seven lots of land were sold and houses built there. Researcher Shirley Joy was unable to find evidence in 1998 that the church burials at the site had been relocated prior to the subdivision and development of the land [27]Responding to her efforts Mayor of Bayside, Cr Graeme Disney, had a commemorative bronze plaque set into the footpath at the corner of Balcombe Road and Bickford Court, Beaumaris.[28]

Establishment of the suburb

Current day Beaumaris covers two early estates in the parish of Moorabbin developed by Josiah Holloway from 1852. Named Beaumaris Town and Beaumaris Estate after the Moysey holding, the lots comprising them were marketed by Mr. Holloway's suggesting that the railway was imminent and a canal would be built.[29] Advertising for an auction on 13 March 1876 of blocks of land at "Dalgety's Paddock" between Balcombe Road and the beach, Beaumaris, portion no. 48, Parish of Moorabbin, describes the area as "The Ramsgate of Victoria," after the seaside town in East Kent.[30]

A Beaumaris Post Office was opened on 1 March 1868, but was renamed Gipsy Village (now Sandringham) office at the end of that month.[31] The township developed slowly, with Beaumaris Hotel, the first shop and civic hall being built in the 1880s. Beaumaris Post Office did not reopen until 1925. In 1957, this was renamed Beaumaris South when a new Beaumaris office opened in the current location. In 1954, Cromer Post Office opened to the north of the suburb.[32]

The 'Great Southern' hotel was built in 1889 as a seaside resort, then in the 1920s, was renamed the Beaumaris Hotel.[33] The original structure survived in the Beaumaris bushfires of 1944, only to be extensively rebuilt and extended in 1950 as 'The Beaumaris'. In 2014, the hotel was converted into 58 apartments.[34]

Beaumaris Tram Company

 
Growing oats in Beaumaris, Victoria, for tramways horses

Horse tramway

 
Beaumaris Tramway Company (BTC) horse drawn tram

At the height of the Victorian land boom in 1887, the Brighton railway line was extended to Sandringham. Thomas Bent, Chairman of Moorabbin Shire Council, keen to stimulate development south of Sandringham sought and received permission to build two tramways from Sandringham station along the coast road to Beaumaris, and from there to Cheltenham railway station, with a branch from Beaumaris continuing down the coast road to Mordialloc; more than 15 kilometres of tramline in total.

The Shire Council contracted the Beaumaris Tramway Company (BTC) in February 1888 for a horse tramway with a 30-year operating lease. The Sandringham to Cheltenham route cost £20,000 and opened that Christmas. At the February 1891, half-yearly meeting of the Beaumaris Tramway Company Limited the chairman Mr. H. Byron Moore reported that a recent doubling of traffic was coupled to the increasing popularity of cheap rail return tickets to Sandringham issued by the Victorian Railways,[35][36] nearly 17,000 of which had been issued.[37] Holiday-makers were offered moonlight tram rides during summer that year[38] and artists of the Victorian Sketching Club used the service.[39] The Mordialloc branch line was never built, and after the land boom bubble burst in 1891, development beyond Black Rock ceased for several decades. Holiday traffic kept the business afloat until in 1912 the Beaumaris to Cheltenham section closed, and in 1914, the BTC ceased operation.

There are no remains of the line to be found, but it is remembered by the name of the suburban street that it once used; Tramway Parade, Beaumaris.

Electric trams

 
Opening of the Beaumaris end of the electric tramway, 1926

Development from the first decade of the twentieth century of the area between Sandringham and Black Rock prompted formation of a public association to lobby for extension of the Sandringham railway that gained Parliamentary support in 1910, though it was vetoed over the high cost of land resumptions. In both 1913 and 1914, proposals were put forward for an electric tramway from Sandringham to Black Rock but using an inland route to preserve the visual amenity of the coastal reserves.[40] In November 1914, an Act enabled this tramway to be owned and operated by Victorian Railways, on standard gauge to cater for any future connection to the main Melbourne system.[41] The line, almost entirely double track, was opened on 10 March 1919 with a small three-road depot at Sandringham railway station yard connecting with the down track in Bay Street. Six crossbench cars with six trailers operated on the tramway, with Elwood Depot maintaining track and rolling stock, joined in 1921 by four new bogie tramcars.[42]

Beaumaris residents' lobbying for an extension of the Black Rock service was considered by the Parliamentary Standing Committee in 1916 and again in 1919, but it was not until 1925 that an agreement was struck between VR and Sandringham City Council for the latter to provide a £2,000 annual operating subsidy to the proposed extension for a period of five years. As a result, construction of the Beaumaris extension commenced, and the single-track line was opened on 1 September 1926. The line ran from the end of Bluff Road in Black Rock, along Ebden Avenue, Fourth Street, Haydens Road, Pacific Boulevard, Reserve Road, Holding Street, and to the end of Martin Street almost up to the intersection of Tramway Parade, where a switch allowed the tram to make the reverse trip.[43][44] As the anticipated residential development did not occur, the 'Bush Tramway', as it came to be known, ran at a heavy loss despite the £2,000 operating subsidy, and exactly five years after opening, the Beaumaris extension closed on 31 August 1931.[45] Until the 1960s when roads were surfaced, traces of the asphalt and timber foundations of the tramway remained in the centre of Holding Street.

Sea baths

 
Nicholas Caire (c. 1876-1880s) Scene at Beaumaris, showing Beaumaris Bay with Keefers boat shed and Mentone baths
 
Arthur Fox (c.1906–1914) Boys and girls in Edwardian costume paddling at Beaumaris beach, bathing boxes in background. Lantern slide.

Sea baths were constructed in Beaumaris and used for more than thirty years from 1902 to 1934.

In the 1890s, there were proposals to build fenced and netted baths with changing facilities in the sea at Beaumaris, like those at Sandringham and Brighton Beach, and others at Mentone and Mordialloc which were operated by the Shire of Moorabbin.

Support for the idea came in 1896 from the proprietor of the Beaumaris Hotel Mrs. Finlay, who offered £20 per year for use of the baths by her boarders free of charge, and John Keys, the Shire Secretary and Engineer envisaged additional income to the council of £15 from its lease.[46] By August that year, Cr. Smith reported that residents would raise a subscription and requested that plans be drawn up and tenders called.[47] An alternative proposal was to use the hulk Hilaria floated off-shore to house the baths. That caused some dispute but came to nothing, delaying progress until 1902 when tenders were finally called for a conventional bath.

Charles Keefer was ultimately successful in his bid for £105 to build, with additional rooms, the structure planned for a site beneath the cliffs east of Beaumaris Hotel, and it was he who was accepted to lease the baths at a rent of £15. Charges were £1 per annum per person, or a monthly ticket of five shillings, while a single bath cost three pence. Keefer managed both the Beaumaris Baths and a boat hire facility operated from a jetty he constructed nearby until, on 30 November 1934, a storm destroyed the baths,[48] which were never rebuilt.[49] The same storm's destruction of bathing boxes appears in paintings by Beaumaris artist Clarice Beckett.[50]

Factory village

In 1939, Dunlop Rubber Company purchased 180 hectares of land in Beaumaris, intending to build a large factory and model village in an area bounded by Balcombe Rd., Beach Rd., Gibbs St. and Cromer Rd.[51] Plans were shelved a month later with the outbreak of World War II.

1944 bushfires

 
Aftermath of 1944 bushfire in Beaumaris; damage to 20 Dalgetty Road

In the midst of WW2 and a severe drought, came disastrous bushfires on 14 January 1944,[52][53] which killed 51 people across Victoria.[54][55] The maximum temperature in Melbourne that day was 39.5 °C with gusty hot northerly winds driving two fire fronts across the heavily wooded suburb.[56][53] The number of homes destroyed in sparsely populated Beaumaris was reported at between 63 and 100, leaving 'a square mile' burnt out, and 200 homeless.[56] Hundreds of volunteers, including many from the city, with fire brigades from neighbouring suburbs and soldiers who were trucked in, could not control the flames.[57] Householders and holidaymakers cut fire-breaks, but fire leapt every gap,[57] leaving 7 caravans and 5 cars gutted in the caravan park.[58] Scores of people sheltered in the sea for hours from fierce flames in the cliff-top ti-tree, with many suffering exposure as a result and some with severe burns also contracting pneumonia.[57][59]

Although everyone who had lost their homes had been provided with temporary accommodation by the Red Cross and Salvation Army, many in rooms, lounges and corridors of the Beaumaris Hotel that was one of the few buildings left standing,[60] more permanent accommodation was difficult to provide.[61] Damage estimated by the office of the Town Clerk at Sandringham at £50,000 (not including clothing, furniture and other personal effects lost) was done to buildings.[61] The Premier Albert Dunstan convened a special meeting of Cabinet to consider relief measures and, with Sandringham Lord Mayor Councillor Nettlefold, inaugurated a State-wide appeal.[56]

Road surfacing, 1960s

In 1949, architect Robin Boyd in a regular column in Melbourne's The Age noted that:

"Beaumaris has been described as the Cinderella suburb. It is young, beautiful and neglected, by its parent council. Its streets are narrow tracks twisting through thick scrub...A car or two bogs every day somewhere in this most attractive of all Melbourne's new suburbs.[62]

The appearance of the original 'tracks' were recorded in an album by W.L. Murrell, photographer and Hon. Librarian of the Beaumaris and District Historical Trust.[63] Most of the "ti-tree tracks" that roughly followed the street grid of Beaumaris remained unmade until the City of Sandringham realigned and surfaced them in asphalt between concrete kerbs in a campaign during 1961–67. The tree-clearing required was opposed by many residents,[64] but their protests were successful only in Point Avenue, which remained an unmade private road.[65][66]

Education

 
Beaumaris West primary school class of 1914

Elementary education for Beaumaris children in the mid-1800s was provided by the closest 'common school'; a private school started by Frederick and Fanny Meeres in 1855 in a single-room wooden dwelling near the Cheltenham Railway Station.  The school was first named the Beaumaris Wesleyan School. In 1863, it became a public school under the control of the National Schools Board, and in 1864, Henry Wells, George Beazley, and Samuel Munby were appointed by the Board to the 'Beaumaris School' on its committee. A Church of England Cheltenham school had also been established on 1 October 1854 in an area 25 minutes walk away and east of Point Nepean Road and north of Centre Dandenong Road. Due to their proximity in 1869, it was to be amalgamated[67][68] with the 'Beaumaris' school, though the former raised religious objections.[69] The Meeres school was relocated onto Crown Land in Charman Road, Cheltenham and in 1872 renamed Beaumaris Common School No. 84. Amongst several others for works in the city and suburbs, the lowest tender at £1055 from Mr George Evans of Ballarat, was publicly accepted in November 1877 by the Education Department for the construction of a brick school at the current site.[70] There it continued as the 'Beaumaris' school until 1885, when it finally became State School No. 84 Cheltenham, the name it retains.

As population in Beaumaris increased so came demands that a school be established within the suburb, so that small children would not need to walk 3.6 km to Charman Road. Subsequently, in May 1915, Beaumaris State School, no.3899, was opened for 41 pupils in the old hall built in the heyday of the 1880s land boom and situated between Martin Street and Bodley Street on the site currently occupied by Beaumaris Bowls Club. The 432sq. metre brick and timber theatre hall had an upper circle and rooms below the stage. The first teacher, from May 1915, was Mrs Fairlie Taylor (née Aidie Lilian Fairlam).[71] It moved in 1917 to its current site in Dalgetty Road as the population of the school grew. Beaumaris North Primary School[72] first opened in 1959 followed by Stella Maris Primary School (Roman Catholic).[73] Beaumaris High School, which opened in 1958, became the Beaumaris Campus of Sandringham College, catering to years 7–10, from 1988 until 2015. A new high school catering for years 7–12, Beaumaris Secondary College, was built on the same site at the corner of Reserve Road and Balcombe Road and opened in January 2018.[74]

Beaumaris Primary School administration building and some of the classrooms were damaged by fire in 1994.[citation needed]

Transport

Major thoroughfares in Beaumaris include Balcombe Road, Reserve Road, Beach Road, Haydens Road and Charman Road.

Beaumaris is serviced regularly by the following bus routes:

  • 600 St Kilda – Cheltenham Via Elwood, Brighton, Brighton Beach station, Hampton, Sandringham, Sandringham station, Black Rock, through Beaumaris, then Cheltenham station, Southland Shopping Centre (every day). Operated by Melbourne Bus Link.
  • 811 Dandenong - Brighton Via Dandenong station, Noble Park, Springvale, Springvale station, Dingley Village, Mordialloc, Mentone, Mentone station, Beaumaris, Cheltenham, Cheltenham station, Moorabbin, Moorabbin station, Hampton, Middle Brighton station Operated by Ventura
  • 812 Dandenong - Brighton Via Dandenong station, Noble Park, Springvale, Springvale station, Dingley Village, Mordialloc, Mentone, Mentone station, Beaumaris, Cheltenham, Cheltenham station, Moorabbin, Moorabbin station, Hampton, Middle Brighton station, Operated by Ventura.[75]
  • 825 Moorabbin – Southland SC via Black Rock, through Beaumaris then to Mentone RS and Southland SC (every day). Operated by Moorabbin Transit.
  • 828 Hampton - Berwick Station via Highett, Cheltenham, Southland SC, Moorabbin Airport, Heatherton, Dingley Village, Keysborough, Southland SC & Dandenong, Doveton, Eumemmerring, Hallam, Narre Warren, Berwick. Operated by Ventura
  • 922 St Kilda – Southland SC via North Brighton RS, Sandringham RS, through Beaumaris, to Cheltenham RS (every day). Operated by Melbourne Bus Link.
  • 923 St Kilda – Southland SC via Brighton Beach RS, Sandringham RS, Cheltenham RS (every day). Operated by Melbourne Bus Link.

Beaumaris is accessible from the Frankston and Sandringham railway lines:

Ricketts Point

 
Ricketts Point Marine Sanctuary, Beaumaris

The most prominent landmarks of this suburb are on its coastline, and include the Beaumaris Cliff, from Charman Road to Table Rock, which is of international importance as a site for marine and terrestrial fossils, and Ricketts Point, which adjoins a 115 hectare Marine Sanctuary and popular beach area. The coastal waters from Table Rock Point in Beaumaris to Quiet Corner in Black Rock and approximately 500 metres to seaward formally became the Ricketts Point Marine Sanctuary under state legislation passed in June 2002.

Marine Care Ricketts Point Inc., a volunteer organisation concerned with the preservation of the marine sanctuary, is active at Ricketts Point.

Beaumaris Conservation Society Inc. was founded in 1953 as the Beaumaris Tree Preservation Society[64][77] and has been active since then in championing the conservation of the substantial amount of remaining indigenous vegetation in Beaumaris and its other significant environmental qualities. It is campaigning against a proposal for a large private marina proposed for the Beaumaris Bay Fossil Site.

Ricketts Point is also home to the Beaumaris Life Saving Club,[78] which holds yearly Life Saving Carnivals in the summer.

People

Artists

 
Commemorative plaque near the foreshore.

Heidelberg school

 
Tom Roberts (1892) The Sunny South, oil on canvas, NGV collection

From the late 19th century Beaumaris and its coastal scenery attracted artists. Near Ricketts Point, there is a monument commemorating the first encounter of Arthur Streeton and Heidelberg school artists Tom Roberts and Fred McCubbin who rented a house over the summer of 1886/7. Their associate, Charles Conder also painted idyllic scenes on the beach at Rickett's Point before he left for Europe in 1890. These paintings of Beaumaris are featured on plaques at the sites which they depict in the City of Bayside Coastal Art Trail.

Barbizon

Michael O'Connell (1898–1976), a soldier returned from the Western Front, in 1923 built Barbizon (named after the French art school), on a bush block in Tramway Parade near Beach Road. The house was constructed from hand made concrete blocks on a simple cruciform plan and regarded by some as an early Modernist design.[79] It became a meeting place for Melbourne's alternative artists and designers including members of the Arts and Crafts Society. During the 1920s O'Connell focussed on School of Paris inspired textile design with his wife Ella Moody (1900–1981). Michael and Ella returned to England for a visit in 1937 but with the outbreak of war remained there and never returned to Australia. Barbizon was destroyed by the bushfire of 1944.[80]

Clarice Beckett

 
Clarice Beckett, Autumn Morning (Early Morning, Beaumaris).

Clarice Beckett (1887–1935) now highly regarded as an original Australian modernist,[81][82] moved with her elderly parents from Bendigo to Dalgetty Rd., Beaumaris in 1919 to care for them in their failing health, a duty that severely limited her artistic endeavours so that she could only go out during the dawn and dusk to paint her landscapes. Nevertheless, her output was prodigious; she exhibited solo shows every year from 1923 to 1933 and with groups, mainly at Melbourne's Athenaeum Gallery, from 1918 to 1934. Many of her works depict still recognisable places along the coast as well as everyday 1920s suburban street scenes. While painting the wild sea off Beaumaris during a big storm in 1935, Beckett developed pneumonia and died four days later in Sandringham hospital, at age 48.[83]

The Boyd family

In 1955 Arthur and Yvonne Boyd moved from Murrumbeena to Beaumaris before setting out in 1959 for a nine-year residency in England.[84] Robert Beck (1942-), the second son of Henry Hatton Beck and Lucy Beck (née Boyd), and his wife Margot (1948- ) set up a pottery at the Boyd's Surf Avenue house where his parents had returned from the UK to live.[85] The two couples worked closely together over this period, making a range of decorated wares and many of their most remarkable ceramic tiles.[86]

Architects and designers

 
Peter Wille (photographer) 1954-5: House, Coronet Grove. Beaumaris. Yuncken Freeman Brothers, Griffiths & Simpson. Courtesy State Library of Victoria
 
Lindsay Bunnett, architect, House, Anita Street, Beaumaris. Photo: Peter Wille
 
Architect Lindsay Bunnett (1953) House, Point Avenue, Beaumaris. Photo: Peter Wille
 
Tile murals in the Norman Edward Brotchie (1929-1991) pharmacy, architect Peter McIntyre, Keys Street, Beaumaris, 1950s. Demolished 2007
 
Beco Lighting advertisement in The Australian home beautiful, 1953

In the post-war period those returned from the military purchased land in the area, and after the bushfires there was much demand for new housing. Eric Lyon noted over 50 architects living in Beaumaris in the 1950's and a 1956 publication from the Royal Victorian Institute of Architects attributed to Robin Boyd the statement that Beaumaris had "the greatest concentration of interesting houses in the metropolitan area". Some of the earliest homes by Australia's best known architects are in Beaumaris: Grounds Romberg & Boyd, Peter McIntyre, Neil Clerehan, Chancellor and Patrick, Yunken Freeman, John Baird, Mockridge Stahle Mitchell, McGlashan Everist, Anatol Kagan, David Godsell and Peter Carmichael amongst others.[23]

In that immediate post-war period modest architect-designed timber dwellings, and 'beach houses,' were erected in Beaumaris which have come to be styled collectively "Beaumaris Modern".[23] With rectilinear, box-like volumes and typically small-scale, they were usually single-storey, of light construction on a minimalist plan, with flat or raking roofs, broad eaves supported on timber beams left visible in interiors, and with painted fascias. Timber cladding between brick pylons or planar walls, left space for Mondrian-esque bays of timber-framed, often full-height windows or a Stegbar Window Wall of Boyd design. Garages were incorporated into the structure (often half-basement) or were in the form of simple, attached flat-roofed carports. Surrounding gardens in the fast-draining sandy soil were of natives plants amongst existing ti-tree, gums and banksia.

Some were built by designers while in the course of their architecture degrees, such as the single-storey gable-roofed weatherboard house at 10 Hardinge Street, Beaumaris, attributed to David Brunton, Bernard Joyce and John Thornes-Lilly, but mostly the work of Brunton, who erected the house for his own use.

Beaumaris houses often incorporate bold experimentation in materials, forms and structural systems, such as Peter McIntyre's bowstring truss houses, influences of the Prairie School style of Frank Lloyd Wright and his contemporaries,  extending to the 1970s in early examples of dwellings in the Brutalist style characterised by chunky forms with bold diagonal elements and raw concrete finishes first used in civic and institutional buildings in Australia from the mid-1960s,  and applied to domestic architecture such as the award-winning Leonard French House in Alfred Street, Beaumaris. A long-time resident of Beaumaris, David Godsell was responsible for a number of buildings in the City of Bayside, the most important being Godsell's own 1960 house at 491 Balcombe Road, Beaumaris,[87] a multi-level Wrightian composition now included on the heritage overlay.[88] He also designed several buildings that were never built, including a remarkable Wright-influenced  clubhouse for the Black Rock Yacht Club and a star-shaped Beaumaris house with a hexagonal module. Though, like many modernist homes in the district, several of his houses have been demolished since, surviving examples are simpler, more minimalist designs with planar face brick walls and floating flat roofs. Only the Grant House, 14 Pasedena Ave Beaumaris; the Godsell House, Balcombe Rd, Beaumaris; and the Johnson House, 451 Beach Rd Beaumaris, are under heritage protection.[89]

The Norman Edward Brotchie (1929-1991) pharmacy designed in the 1950s by architect Peter McIntyre featured boldly distinctive floor-to-ceiling coloured tile murals. The design by an unknown artist of overlapping cubist apothecary jars and bottles in yellow, brick-red, yellow and black covered sides of the facade and the interior walls of the premises at the southwest corner of Keys Street, Beaumaris. They were demolished during renovations in 2007.[23]

Significant mid-century industrial design and fittings emerged from Beaumaris in the same period; Donald Brown's aluminium BECO (a.k.a. Brown Evans and Co.) light fittings[90] featured in many houses (particularly those by Robin Boyd) in the 1950s and 60's,[91] while the designer of the famous Planet lamp was Bill Iggulden, was a resident of Beaumaris.[23][92]

Beaumaris Art Group

In 1953, when Beaumaris still retained a village character, a small band of resident artist friends, including painter Inez Hutchinson (1890–1970),[93] sculptor Joan Macrae (1918–2017)[94] and ceramicist Betty Jennings staged an exhibition[95] which led to their establishing the Beaumaris Art Group, a not-for-profit organisation, later that year. An exhibition in 1961 of five female artists including June Stephenson, Sue McDougall, Grace Somerville, Margaret Dredge[96] and Inez Green raised funds for the Art Group.[97] They continued to meet and exhibit at the Beaumaris State School,[98] purchased land and built studios in 1965 designed by local architect C. Bricknell at 84–98 Reserve Rd, which were opened by director of the National Gallery of Victoria, Dr. Eric Westbrook, who also launched the Inez Hutchinson awards in 1966.[99][100] Further structural additions by John Thompson were added in 1975/76.[101][102][103][23] Current President is Cate Rayson.[104]

Galleries

Beaumaris Art Group houses a small gallery and display cases in its premises in which it displays its annual shows, open days and work by members.[105] In the 1950s before construction of its own quarters in 1965, its first annual exhibitions were held at the State School.[106][107]

Clive Parry Galleries,[108] managed by Russell. K. Davis, operated from 1966[109] until 1979 at 468 Beach Road, near the junction of Keys St., and exhibited paintings, drawings, textiles,[110] woodcraft,[111][112] ceramics,[113][114][115][116][117] jewellery,[118] and graphics[119] by artists including Margaret Dredge, Robert Grieve, Wesley Penberthy, Mac Betts,[120] Kathleen Boyle,[121][122] Colin Browne,[123] Ian Armstrong, Noel Counihan, Wladyslaw Dutkiewicz, David Dridan, Judi Elliot,[124] Vic Greenaway,[113][114][125][126] Tim Guthrie, Ann Graham,[127] Erica McGilchrist,[128] Warren Breninger, Max Middleton,[129] Millan Todd,[130] Douglas Stubbs,[131] Alfred Calkoen,[132] Lynne Cooke, Peter Glass,[133] Noela Hjorth, Bruno Leti, Charles Billich, Barbara Brash, Dorothy Braund, Murray Champion,[134] Peter Jacobs,[135] Marcella Hempel,[110] Kevin Lincoln,[136] Judy Lorraine,[137] Mary MacQueen, Helen Maudsley, Jason Monet,[138] Tim Moorhead,[139] Victor O'Connor, Elizabeth Prior,[140] Anne Judell, Paul King,[141] Nornie Gude, Norman Lindsay, Ailsa O'Connor, Jack Courier, Alan Sumner, Howard Arkley, Alan Watt,[115] Tina Wentcher[142] and William Dargie.[143] In June 1975, 1976 and 1977 it hosted the Inez Hutchinson Award presented by the Beaumaris Art Group.[144][145][99]

Other venues more recently have included the Ricketts Point Tea House[146]

Creative professionals

Beside architects, other creative professionals who were residents of Beaumaris include fashion designers Sally Brown, Linda Jackson, Pru Acton and Geoff Bade; architect and historian Mary Turner Shaw; graphic designers Frank Eidlitz and Brian Sadgrove; flag designer and canvas goods manufacturer Ivor William Evans (1887–1960);[147] journalist and nature writer Donald Alaster Macdonald (1859?–1932) whose memorial is in Donald MacDonald reserve, and whose ideas were continued in 1953 when the Beaumaris Tree Preservation Society (now Beaumaris Conservation Society) was formed to conserve bushland against accelerating land clearances for housing and to encourage planting of indigenous vegetation.[148] Photojournalist J. Brian McArdle, editor of Walkabout magazine. Musicians include Colin Hay,[23] and Brett and Sally Iggulden (children of Bill Iggulden who designed the Series K Planet Lamp in 1962)[149] who were founders and members, with others from the district, of The Red Onion Jazz Band in the 1960s.[150]

Notable residents

Demographics

At the 2021 Australian census, the suburb of Beaumaris recorded a population of 13,947 people. Of these 48.0% were male and 52.0% were female. Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people made up 0.2% of the population:[156]

Age distribution: Residents tend to be somewhat older than the country overall. The median age was 48 years, compared to the national median of 38 years. In Beaumaris in 2021 compared to Australia, there was a higher proportion of people in the younger age groups (0 to 17 years) as well as a higher proportion of people in the older age groups (60+ years). Overall, 25.5% of the population was aged between 0 and 19, and 29.5% were aged 60 years and over, compared with 23.6% and 23% respectively for Australia.
Education: 41.5% of the population of Beaumaris hold a Bachelor or Higher degree compared to 26.3% across Australia. The number in 2021 with no qualification (0.1%) was smaller than the national (0.8%). A larger percentage of persons had Advanced Diploma or Diplomas (11.4% compared to 9.4% nationally), and a smaller percentage of persons held Vocational qualifications. Of all people attending educational institutions, 18% were secondary students in Independent schools compared to 13.3% attending Government schools.
Ethnic diversity: In 2021 a smaller proportion of the population in Beaumaris, 26.4%, was recorded as born overseas compared to 33.1% being the national average, with the major differences between the countries of birth of the population in Beaumaris and Australia being a larger percentage of people born in England (7.2% compared to 3.6%), and a smaller percentage of people born in China (1.4% compared to 2.2%), though the latter had grown by 64 persons between 2011 and 2016. In 2021 in Beaumaris 86.9%, a higher proportion compared to 72% in Australia as a whole, spoke English only. In 13.6% of households another language other than English was used compared with 24.8% for all Australian households. In the whole Beaumaris population Greek (1.6%) was the most common other language spoken at home, followed by Mandarin (1.7%), German (0.9%) and Italian (1.4%)
Finances: The median household weekly income was $2,626, compared to the national median of $1,746. This difference is also reflected in real estate, with the median mortgage payment being $3,000 per month, compared to the national median of $1,863.
Transport: On the day of the Census, 2% of employed people travelled to work on public transport, and 42% by car (either as driver or as passenger), while nationally the percentages were a higher 4.6% using public transport and 57.8% using cars.
Housing: The great majority (78.9%) of occupied dwellings were separate houses, 15.5% were semi-detached, 5.1% were flats, units or apartments and 0.6% were other dwellings. 79.4% of all dwellings were family homes, while 19.8% held sole occupants.
Religion: In Australia, the biggest cohort people in the 2021 census at 38.4%, and growing, reported their religion as 'None,' and the percentage in Beaumaris was higher still, at 45.3%. 21.4% of Beaumaris residents are Catholic, compared to 20% across Australia, 13.7% (compared to 9.8%) are Anglican, and 3.5% are Eastern Orthodox compared to 2.1% nationally.

Politics

Federal government

The Division of Goldstein is an Australian Electoral Division in Victoria. The division was created in 1984, when the former Division of Balaclava was abolished. It comprises the bayside suburbs Beaumaris, Bentleigh, Brighton, Caulfield South, Cheltenham (part), Gardenvale and Sandringham. The division is named after early feminist parliamentary candidate Vida Goldstein. It is represented by Independent Zoe Daniel.

State government

Beaumaris is in the electoral district of Sandringham, one of the electoral districts of Victoria, Australia, for the Victorian Legislative Assembly, with Black Rock and Sandringham, and parts of Cheltenham, Hampton, Highett, and Mentone.

Since the seat was created in 1955, it has been held by the Liberal Party, except for the period 1982-5 when it was held by the Labor Party. The seat is currently held by Brad Rowswell of the Liberal Party.

2022 Victorian state election: Sandringham[157]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Brad Rowswell 18,783 46.4 +3.8
Labor Bettina Prescott 10,426 25.7 −7.4
Greens Alysia Regan 5,949 14.7 +6.5
Independent Clarke Martin 2,800 6.9 -1.6
Animal Justice Barbara Eppingstall 976 2.4 −0.8
Democratic Labour Karla Zmegac 749 1.9 −1.0
Family First Jill Chalmers 572 1.8 +1.8
Independent Rodney Campbell 115 0.3 +0.3
Total formal votes 40,512 96.0 +1.3
Informal votes 1,699 4.0 −0.8
Turnout 42,211 91.2 +2.2
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal Brad Rowswell 22,399 55.2 +4.8
Labor Bettina Prescott 18,216 44.1 −4.8
Liberal hold Swing +4.8

Results are not final. Last updated at 1:25 on 12 December 2022.

Local government

Beaumaris is in the local government area of the City of Bayside and occupies two of its wards since redistributions in 2008; Ebden (west and north),[158] and Beckett (south and east).[159] Current councillors elected October 2020 are Clarke Martin (Beckett ward) and Lawrence Evans (Ebden ward) who is Mayor. Both are Independents.

See also

  • City of Moorabbin – Parts of Beaumaris were previously within this former local government area.
  • City of Mordialloc – Parts of Beaumaris were previously within this former local government area.
  • City of Sandringham – Parts of Beaumaris were previously within this former local government area.

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External links

  • Bayside City Council Website
  • Sandringham Secondary College
  • Beaumaris Primary School
  • Beaumaris Conservation Society Inc.
  • Royal Melbourne Golf Club
  • Metlink – Guide to transport in Melbourne
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January 22, 2023
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For other places with the same name see Beaumaris disambiguation Beaumaris b oʊ ˈ m ɒ r ɪ s bo MAR is is a suburb in Melbourne Victoria Australia 20km south east of Melbourne s Central Business District 2 located within the City of Bayside local government area Beaumaris recorded a population of 13 947 at the 2021 census 1 Beaumaris Melbourne VictoriaWatkins Bay viewed from Ricketts PointBeaumarisCoordinates37 58 59 S 145 02 36 E 37 983 S 145 0434 E 37 983 145 0434 Coordinates 37 58 59 S 145 02 36 E 37 983 S 145 0434 E 37 983 145 0434Population13 947 2021 census 1 Density2 682 km2 6 950 sq mi Postcode s 3193Elevation20 m 66 ft Area5 2 km2 2 0 sq mi Location20 km 12 mi from MelbourneLGA s City of BaysideState electorate s SandringhamFederal division s GoldsteinSuburbs around Beaumaris Black Rock Cheltenham CheltenhamPort Phillip Beaumaris MentoneBeaumaris is located on Port Phillip Bay and is bounded by Reserve Road and Weatherall Road in the north Charman Road in the east the Port Phillip Bay foreshore in the south and McGregor Avenue Fifth Street Keating Street Iluka Street Fairleigh Avenue and Royal Melbourne Golf Club in the west Contents 1 Geology 2 History 2 1 Indigenous occupation 2 2 European settlement 2 3 Beaumaris cemetery 2 4 Establishment of the suburb 2 5 Beaumaris Tram Company 2 5 1 Horse tramway 2 5 2 Electric trams 2 6 Sea baths 2 7 Factory village 2 8 1944 bushfires 2 9 Road surfacing 1960s 3 Education 4 Transport 5 Ricketts Point 6 People 6 1 Artists 6 1 1 Heidelberg school 6 1 2 Barbizon 6 1 3 Clarice Beckett 6 1 4 The Boyd family 6 1 5 Architects and designers 6 1 6 Beaumaris Art Group 6 1 7 Galleries 6 1 8 Creative professionals 6 2 Notable residents 6 3 Demographics 7 Politics 7 1 Federal government 7 2 State government 7 3 Local government 8 See also 9 References 10 External linksGeology Edit Walter P Ryland 1907 8 Beaumaris Bay Cliffs showing geological strata The blunt V shaped intrusion of land into the Bay that is spearheaded by Table Rock Point is referred to as the Beaumaris Peninsula The Beaumaris cliffs to the north east of Table Rock are formed by the steeply folded rock layers known as the Beaumaris Monocline which is considered to be of Tertiary age overlying older structures 3 These include the underlying Silurian rock known as the Fyansford formation above which is the 15 m thick darker Beaumaris Sandstone overlain by yellowish Red Bluff Sandstone as outcrops in the cliffs ferruginised with hard ironstone in the upper sections extending to the platform and as small reefs parallel to the coastline A thin calcareous sandstone is overlain by fine sandy marl and sandstone with calcareous concretions At the base of the sandstone is a thin gravelly bed that includes concretionary nodules of phosphate and iron of which detached nodules may be found around the cliff base 3 4 The Monocline can be seen where the cliffs of Beaumaris are locally parallel to the turnover of the monocline which forms a drainage divide between the Gardners Creek Dandenong Creeks systems and the Carrum Swamp 5 Layers in the cliff are almost horizontal but fold downward almost 30º toward the vertical south easterly and out to sea 6 Jagged remains of the strata can be seen off shore at low tide from the cliff top walk at the end of Wells Road 7 Behind Keefer s Fishermens Wharf the lower level of the cliffs is a fossil site of international significance 8 Shells sea urchins crabs foraminifera remains of whales sharks rays and dolphins and also birds and marsupials dating back to the Late Miocene to Early Pliocene 12 to 6 million years ago can be found and have been the subject of a number of papers 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 History EditIndigenous occupation Edit Benjamin Duterrau 1836 Aboriginal Chief Chief Derah Mat Derrimut a leader of the Boon wurrung clan The Bunurong or Boon Wurrung peoples of the Kulin nation lived along the Eastern coast of Port Philip Bay for over 20 000 years before white settlement 17 Their mythology preserves the history of the flooding of Port Phillip Bay 10 000 years ago 18 and its period of drying and retreat 2 800 1 000 years ago 19 Visible evidence of their shell middens and hand dug wells remain along the cliffs of Beaumaris 20 21 but by the 1850s most withdrew to the Mordialloc Aboriginal Reserve established in 1852 and after the 1860s to Coranderrk European settlement Edit Charles Conder 1890 Rickett s Point oil on canvas 31 0 77 2 cm National Gallery of Victoria Melbourne Purchased 1951 One of the first white settlers was James Bickford Moysey 22 in 1845 23 who along with several other local settlers had Welsh roots and he gave the name Beaumaris to his pastoral run after the Welsh Town of Beaumaris Welsh Biwmares on the Isle of Anglesey in the Menai Strait called beaux marais by Norman French builders of the castle there a name which translates as beautiful marshes Moysey eventually purchased 32 hectares for his farm 24 There is a monument on the foreshore opposite the hotel where Moysey had built a house 25 Beaumaris cemetery Edit The first Cheltenham settlers Stephen and Mary Ann Charman donated land in 1854 that was the first cemetery of the area established in the churchyard of the small timber Wesleyan Church at the western corner of what is now Balcombe Road and Bickford Court 26 There two of the Charman s own babies were buried in 1855 and 1859 Soon reaching capacity this small cemetery operated for only 11 years with the last known burial in 1866 Other faiths traveled to Brighton to bury their dead The church building on the site was sold in 1893 and moved to Langwarrin and the land turned over to grazing In 1954 the Moorabbin Council faced with growing population and ramping land values granted a permit to the Methodist Church to subdivide the land Everest Le Page Moorabbin Councillor and Cheltenham resident believing that the previous burial sites may not have been relocated following the closure of the church argued unsuccessfully against sub division and seven lots of land were sold and houses built there Researcher Shirley Joy was unable to find evidence in 1998 that the church burials at the site had been relocated prior to the subdivision and development of the land 27 Responding to her efforts Mayor of Bayside Cr Graeme Disney had a commemorative bronze plaque set into the footpath at the corner of Balcombe Road and Bickford Court Beaumaris 28 Establishment of the suburb Edit Current day Beaumaris covers two early estates in the parish of Moorabbin developed by Josiah Holloway from 1852 Named Beaumaris Town and Beaumaris Estate after the Moysey holding the lots comprising them were marketed by Mr Holloway s suggesting that the railway was imminent and a canal would be built 29 Advertising for an auction on 13 March 1876 of blocks of land at Dalgety s Paddock between Balcombe Road and the beach Beaumaris portion no 48 Parish of Moorabbin describes the area as The Ramsgate of Victoria after the seaside town in East Kent 30 A Beaumaris Post Office was opened on 1 March 1868 but was renamed Gipsy Village now Sandringham office at the end of that month 31 The township developed slowly with Beaumaris Hotel the first shop and civic hall being built in the 1880s Beaumaris Post Office did not reopen until 1925 In 1957 this was renamed Beaumaris South when a new Beaumaris office opened in the current location In 1954 Cromer Post Office opened to the north of the suburb 32 The Great Southern hotel was built in 1889 as a seaside resort then in the 1920s was renamed the Beaumaris Hotel 33 The original structure survived in the Beaumaris bushfires of 1944 only to be extensively rebuilt and extended in 1950 as The Beaumaris In 2014 the hotel was converted into 58 apartments 34 Beaumaris Tram Company Edit Growing oats in Beaumaris Victoria for tramways horses Horse tramway Edit Beaumaris Tramway Company BTC horse drawn tram At the height of the Victorian land boom in 1887 the Brighton railway line was extended to Sandringham Thomas Bent Chairman of Moorabbin Shire Council keen to stimulate development south of Sandringham sought and received permission to build two tramways from Sandringham station along the coast road to Beaumaris and from there to Cheltenham railway station with a branch from Beaumaris continuing down the coast road to Mordialloc more than 15 kilometres of tramline in total The Shire Council contracted the Beaumaris Tramway Company BTC in February 1888 for a horse tramway with a 30 year operating lease The Sandringham to Cheltenham route cost 20 000 and opened that Christmas At the February 1891 half yearly meeting of the Beaumaris Tramway Company Limited the chairman Mr H Byron Moore reported that a recent doubling of traffic was coupled to the increasing popularity of cheap rail return tickets to Sandringham issued by the Victorian Railways 35 36 nearly 17 000 of which had been issued 37 Holiday makers were offered moonlight tram rides during summer that year 38 and artists of the Victorian Sketching Club used the service 39 The Mordialloc branch line was never built and after the land boom bubble burst in 1891 development beyond Black Rock ceased for several decades Holiday traffic kept the business afloat until in 1912 the Beaumaris to Cheltenham section closed and in 1914 the BTC ceased operation There are no remains of the line to be found but it is remembered by the name of the suburban street that it once used Tramway Parade Beaumaris Electric trams Edit Opening of the Beaumaris end of the electric tramway 1926 Development from the first decade of the twentieth century of the area between Sandringham and Black Rock prompted formation of a public association to lobby for extension of the Sandringham railway that gained Parliamentary support in 1910 though it was vetoed over the high cost of land resumptions In both 1913 and 1914 proposals were put forward for an electric tramway from Sandringham to Black Rock but using an inland route to preserve the visual amenity of the coastal reserves 40 In November 1914 an Act enabled this tramway to be owned and operated by Victorian Railways on standard gauge to cater for any future connection to the main Melbourne system 41 The line almost entirely double track was opened on 10 March 1919 with a small three road depot at Sandringham railway station yard connecting with the down track in Bay Street Six crossbench cars with six trailers operated on the tramway with Elwood Depot maintaining track and rolling stock joined in 1921 by four new bogie tramcars 42 Beaumaris residents lobbying for an extension of the Black Rock service was considered by the Parliamentary Standing Committee in 1916 and again in 1919 but it was not until 1925 that an agreement was struck between VR and Sandringham City Council for the latter to provide a 2 000 annual operating subsidy to the proposed extension for a period of five years As a result construction of the Beaumaris extension commenced and the single track line was opened on 1 September 1926 The line ran from the end of Bluff Road in Black Rock along Ebden Avenue Fourth Street Haydens Road Pacific Boulevard Reserve Road Holding Street and to the end of Martin Street almost up to the intersection of Tramway Parade where a switch allowed the tram to make the reverse trip 43 44 As the anticipated residential development did not occur the Bush Tramway as it came to be known ran at a heavy loss despite the 2 000 operating subsidy and exactly five years after opening the Beaumaris extension closed on 31 August 1931 45 Until the 1960s when roads were surfaced traces of the asphalt and timber foundations of the tramway remained in the centre of Holding Street Sea baths Edit Nicholas Caire c 1876 1880s Scene at Beaumaris showing Beaumaris Bay with Keefers boat shed and Mentone baths Arthur Fox c 1906 1914 Boys and girls in Edwardian costume paddling at Beaumaris beach bathing boxes in background Lantern slide Sea baths were constructed in Beaumaris and used for more than thirty years from 1902 to 1934 In the 1890s there were proposals to build fenced and netted baths with changing facilities in the sea at Beaumaris like those at Sandringham and Brighton Beach and others at Mentone and Mordialloc which were operated by the Shire of Moorabbin Support for the idea came in 1896 from the proprietor of the Beaumaris Hotel Mrs Finlay who offered 20 per year for use of the baths by her boarders free of charge and John Keys the Shire Secretary and Engineer envisaged additional income to the council of 15 from its lease 46 By August that year Cr Smith reported that residents would raise a subscription and requested that plans be drawn up and tenders called 47 An alternative proposal was to use the hulk Hilaria floated off shore to house the baths That caused some dispute but came to nothing delaying progress until 1902 when tenders were finally called for a conventional bath Charles Keefer was ultimately successful in his bid for 105 to build with additional rooms the structure planned for a site beneath the cliffs east of Beaumaris Hotel and it was he who was accepted to lease the baths at a rent of 15 Charges were 1 per annum per person or a monthly ticket of five shillings while a single bath cost three pence Keefer managed both the Beaumaris Baths and a boat hire facility operated from a jetty he constructed nearby until on 30 November 1934 a storm destroyed the baths 48 which were never rebuilt 49 The same storm s destruction of bathing boxes appears in paintings by Beaumaris artist Clarice Beckett 50 Factory village Edit In 1939 Dunlop Rubber Company purchased 180 hectares of land in Beaumaris intending to build a large factory and model village in an area bounded by Balcombe Rd Beach Rd Gibbs St and Cromer Rd 51 Plans were shelved a month later with the outbreak of World War II 1944 bushfires Edit Aftermath of 1944 bushfire in Beaumaris damage to 20 Dalgetty Road In the midst of WW2 and a severe drought came disastrous bushfires on 14 January 1944 52 53 which killed 51 people across Victoria 54 55 The maximum temperature in Melbourne that day was 39 5 C with gusty hot northerly winds driving two fire fronts across the heavily wooded suburb 56 53 The number of homes destroyed in sparsely populated Beaumaris was reported at between 63 and 100 leaving a square mile burnt out and 200 homeless 56 Hundreds of volunteers including many from the city with fire brigades from neighbouring suburbs and soldiers who were trucked in could not control the flames 57 Householders and holidaymakers cut fire breaks but fire leapt every gap 57 leaving 7 caravans and 5 cars gutted in the caravan park 58 Scores of people sheltered in the sea for hours from fierce flames in the cliff top ti tree with many suffering exposure as a result and some with severe burns also contracting pneumonia 57 59 Although everyone who had lost their homes had been provided with temporary accommodation by the Red Cross and Salvation Army many in rooms lounges and corridors of the Beaumaris Hotel that was one of the few buildings left standing 60 more permanent accommodation was difficult to provide 61 Damage estimated by the office of the Town Clerk at Sandringham at 50 000 not including clothing furniture and other personal effects lost was done to buildings 61 The Premier Albert Dunstan convened a special meeting of Cabinet to consider relief measures and with Sandringham Lord Mayor Councillor Nettlefold inaugurated a State wide appeal 56 Road surfacing 1960s Edit In 1949 architect Robin Boyd in a regular column in Melbourne s The Age noted that Beaumaris has been described as the Cinderella suburb It is young beautiful and neglected by its parent council Its streets are narrow tracks twisting through thick scrub A car or two bogs every day somewhere in this most attractive of all Melbourne s new suburbs 62 The appearance of the original tracks were recorded in an album by W L Murrell photographer and Hon Librarian of the Beaumaris and District Historical Trust 63 Most of the ti tree tracks that roughly followed the street grid of Beaumaris remained unmade until the City of Sandringham realigned and surfaced them in asphalt between concrete kerbs in a campaign during 1961 67 The tree clearing required was opposed by many residents 64 but their protests were successful only in Point Avenue which remained an unmade private road 65 66 Education Edit Beaumaris West primary school class of 1914 Elementary education for Beaumaris children in the mid 1800s was provided by the closest common school a private school started by Frederick and Fanny Meeres in 1855 in a single room wooden dwelling near the Cheltenham Railway Station The school was first named the Beaumaris Wesleyan School In 1863 it became a public school under the control of the National Schools Board and in 1864 Henry Wells George Beazley and Samuel Munby were appointed by the Board to the Beaumaris School on its committee A Church of England Cheltenham school had also been established on 1 October 1854 in an area 25 minutes walk away and east of Point Nepean Road and north of Centre Dandenong Road Due to their proximity in 1869 it was to be amalgamated 67 68 with the Beaumaris school though the former raised religious objections 69 The Meeres school was relocated onto Crown Land in Charman Road Cheltenham and in 1872 renamed Beaumaris Common School No 84 Amongst several others for works in the city and suburbs the lowest tender at 1055 from Mr George Evans of Ballarat was publicly accepted in November 1877 by the Education Department for the construction of a brick school at the current site 70 There it continued as the Beaumaris school until 1885 when it finally became State School No 84 Cheltenham the name it retains As population in Beaumaris increased so came demands that a school be established within the suburb so that small children would not need to walk 3 6 km to Charman Road Subsequently in May 1915 Beaumaris State School no 3899 was opened for 41 pupils in the old hall built in the heyday of the 1880s land boom and situated between Martin Street and Bodley Street on the site currently occupied by Beaumaris Bowls Club The 432sq metre brick and timber theatre hall had an upper circle and rooms below the stage The first teacher from May 1915 was Mrs Fairlie Taylor nee Aidie Lilian Fairlam 71 It moved in 1917 to its current site in Dalgetty Road as the population of the school grew Beaumaris North Primary School 72 first opened in 1959 followed by Stella Maris Primary School Roman Catholic 73 Beaumaris High School which opened in 1958 became the Beaumaris Campus of Sandringham College catering to years 7 10 from 1988 until 2015 A new high school catering for years 7 12 Beaumaris Secondary College was built on the same site at the corner of Reserve Road and Balcombe Road and opened in January 2018 74 Beaumaris Primary School administration building and some of the classrooms were damaged by fire in 1994 citation needed Transport EditMajor thoroughfares in Beaumaris include Balcombe Road Reserve Road Beach Road Haydens Road and Charman Road Beaumaris is serviced regularly by the following bus routes 600 St Kilda Cheltenham Via Elwood Brighton Brighton Beach station Hampton Sandringham Sandringham station Black Rock through Beaumaris then Cheltenham station Southland Shopping Centre every day Operated by Melbourne Bus Link 811 Dandenong Brighton Via Dandenong station Noble Park Springvale Springvale station Dingley Village Mordialloc Mentone Mentone station Beaumaris Cheltenham Cheltenham station Moorabbin Moorabbin station Hampton Middle Brighton station Operated by Ventura 812 Dandenong Brighton Via Dandenong station Noble Park Springvale Springvale station Dingley Village Mordialloc Mentone Mentone station Beaumaris Cheltenham Cheltenham station Moorabbin Moorabbin station Hampton Middle Brighton station Operated by Ventura 75 825 Moorabbin Southland SC via Black Rock through Beaumaris then to Mentone RS and Southland SC every day Operated by Moorabbin Transit 828 Hampton Berwick Station via Highett Cheltenham Southland SC Moorabbin Airport Heatherton Dingley Village Keysborough Southland SC amp Dandenong Doveton Eumemmerring Hallam Narre Warren Berwick Operated by Ventura 922 St Kilda Southland SC via North Brighton RS Sandringham RS through Beaumaris to Cheltenham RS every day Operated by Melbourne Bus Link 923 St Kilda Southland SC via Brighton Beach RS Sandringham RS Cheltenham RS every day Operated by Melbourne Bus Link Beaumaris is accessible from the Frankston and Sandringham railway lines Cheltenham Station then 600 Bus Via Frankston Kananook Seaford Carrum Bonbeach Chelsea Edithvale Aspendale Mordialloc Parkdale Mentone Cheltenham Southland Highett Moorabbin Patterson Bentleigh McKinnon Ormond Glenhuntly Caulfield Malvern Armadale Toorak Hawksburn South Yarra Richmond Flinders Street Southern Cross Mentone Station then 825 Bus Via Frankston Kananook Seaford Carrum Bonbeach Chelsea Edithvale Aspendale Mordialloc Parkdale Mentone Cheltenham Southland Highett Moorabbin Patterson Bentleigh McKinnon Ormond Glenhuntly Caulfield Malvern Armadale Toorak Hawksburn South Yarra Richmond Flinders Street Southern Cross Sandringham Station then Bus 922 600 or 825 Via Hampton Brighton Beach Middle Brighton North Brighton Gardenvale Elsternwick Ripponlea Balaclava Windsor Prahran South Yarra Richmond Flinders Street Southern Cross 76 Ricketts Point Edit Ricketts Point Marine Sanctuary Beaumaris The most prominent landmarks of this suburb are on its coastline and include the Beaumaris Cliff from Charman Road to Table Rock which is of international importance as a site for marine and terrestrial fossils and Ricketts Point which adjoins a 115 hectare Marine Sanctuary and popular beach area The coastal waters from Table Rock Point in Beaumaris to Quiet Corner in Black Rock and approximately 500 metres to seaward formally became the Ricketts Point Marine Sanctuary under state legislation passed in June 2002 Marine Care Ricketts Point Inc a volunteer organisation concerned with the preservation of the marine sanctuary is active at Ricketts Point Beaumaris Conservation Society Inc was founded in 1953 as the Beaumaris Tree Preservation Society 64 77 and has been active since then in championing the conservation of the substantial amount of remaining indigenous vegetation in Beaumaris and its other significant environmental qualities It is campaigning against a proposal for a large private marina proposed for the Beaumaris Bay Fossil Site Ricketts Point is also home to the Beaumaris Life Saving Club 78 which holds yearly Life Saving Carnivals in the summer People EditArtists Edit Commemorative plaque near the foreshore Heidelberg school Edit Tom Roberts 1892 The Sunny South oil on canvas NGV collection From the late 19th century Beaumaris and its coastal scenery attracted artists Near Ricketts Point there is a monument commemorating the first encounter of Arthur Streeton and Heidelberg school artists Tom Roberts and Fred McCubbin who rented a house over the summer of 1886 7 Their associate Charles Conder also painted idyllic scenes on the beach at Rickett s Point before he left for Europe in 1890 These paintings of Beaumaris are featured on plaques at the sites which they depict in the City of Bayside Coastal Art Trail Barbizon Edit Michael O Connell 1898 1976 a soldier returned from the Western Front in 1923 built Barbizon named after the French art school on a bush block in Tramway Parade near Beach Road The house was constructed from hand made concrete blocks on a simple cruciform plan and regarded by some as an early Modernist design 79 It became a meeting place for Melbourne s alternative artists and designers including members of the Arts and Crafts Society During the 1920s O Connell focussed on School of Paris inspired textile design with his wife Ella Moody 1900 1981 Michael and Ella returned to England for a visit in 1937 but with the outbreak of war remained there and never returned to Australia Barbizon was destroyed by the bushfire of 1944 80 Clarice Beckett Edit Clarice Beckett Autumn Morning Early Morning Beaumaris Clarice Beckett 1887 1935 now highly regarded as an original Australian modernist 81 82 moved with her elderly parents from Bendigo to Dalgetty Rd Beaumaris in 1919 to care for them in their failing health a duty that severely limited her artistic endeavours so that she could only go out during the dawn and dusk to paint her landscapes Nevertheless her output was prodigious she exhibited solo shows every year from 1923 to 1933 and with groups mainly at Melbourne s Athenaeum Gallery from 1918 to 1934 Many of her works depict still recognisable places along the coast as well as everyday 1920s suburban street scenes While painting the wild sea off Beaumaris during a big storm in 1935 Beckett developed pneumonia and died four days later in Sandringham hospital at age 48 83 The Boyd family Edit In 1955 Arthur and Yvonne Boyd moved from Murrumbeena to Beaumaris before setting out in 1959 for a nine year residency in England 84 Robert Beck 1942 the second son of Henry Hatton Beck and Lucy Beck nee Boyd and his wife Margot 1948 set up a pottery at the Boyd s Surf Avenue house where his parents had returned from the UK to live 85 The two couples worked closely together over this period making a range of decorated wares and many of their most remarkable ceramic tiles 86 Architects and designers Edit Peter Wille photographer 1954 5 House Coronet Grove Beaumaris Yuncken Freeman Brothers Griffiths amp Simpson Courtesy State Library of Victoria Lindsay Bunnett architect House Anita Street Beaumaris Photo Peter Wille Architect Lindsay Bunnett 1953 House Point Avenue Beaumaris Photo Peter Wille Tile murals in the Norman Edward Brotchie 1929 1991 pharmacy architect Peter McIntyre Keys Street Beaumaris 1950s Demolished 2007 Beco Lighting advertisement in The Australian home beautiful 1953 In the post war period those returned from the military purchased land in the area and after the bushfires there was much demand for new housing Eric Lyon noted over 50 architects living in Beaumaris in the 1950 s and a 1956 publication from the Royal Victorian Institute of Architects attributed to Robin Boyd the statement that Beaumaris had the greatest concentration of interesting houses in the metropolitan area Some of the earliest homes by Australia s best known architects are in Beaumaris Grounds Romberg amp Boyd Peter McIntyre Neil Clerehan Chancellor and Patrick Yunken Freeman John Baird Mockridge Stahle Mitchell McGlashan Everist Anatol Kagan David Godsell and Peter Carmichael amongst others 23 In that immediate post war period modest architect designed timber dwellings and beach houses were erected in Beaumaris which have come to be styled collectively Beaumaris Modern 23 With rectilinear box like volumes and typically small scale they were usually single storey of light construction on a minimalist plan with flat or raking roofs broad eaves supported on timber beams left visible in interiors and with painted fascias Timber cladding between brick pylons or planar walls left space for Mondrian esque bays of timber framed often full height windows or a Stegbar Window Wall of Boyd design Garages were incorporated into the structure often half basement or were in the form of simple attached flat roofed carports Surrounding gardens in the fast draining sandy soil were of natives plants amongst existing ti tree gums and banksia Some were built by designers while in the course of their architecture degrees such as the single storey gable roofed weatherboard house at 10 Hardinge Street Beaumaris attributed to David Brunton Bernard Joyce and John Thornes Lilly but mostly the work of Brunton who erected the house for his own use Beaumaris houses often incorporate bold experimentation in materials forms and structural systems such as Peter McIntyre s bowstring truss houses influences of the Prairie School style of Frank Lloyd Wright and his contemporaries extending to the 1970s in early examples of dwellings in the Brutalist style characterised by chunky forms with bold diagonal elements and raw concrete finishes first used in civic and institutional buildings in Australia from the mid 1960s and applied to domestic architecture such as the award winning Leonard French House in Alfred Street Beaumaris A long time resident of Beaumaris David Godsell was responsible for a number of buildings in the City of Bayside the most important being Godsell s own 1960 house at 491 Balcombe Road Beaumaris 87 a multi level Wrightian composition now included on the heritage overlay 88 He also designed several buildings that were never built including a remarkable Wright influenced clubhouse for the Black Rock Yacht Club and a star shaped Beaumaris house with a hexagonal module Though like many modernist homes in the district several of his houses have been demolished since surviving examples are simpler more minimalist designs with planar face brick walls and floating flat roofs Only the Grant House 14 Pasedena Ave Beaumaris the Godsell House Balcombe Rd Beaumaris and the Johnson House 451 Beach Rd Beaumaris are under heritage protection 89 The Norman Edward Brotchie 1929 1991 pharmacy designed in the 1950s by architect Peter McIntyre featured boldly distinctive floor to ceiling coloured tile murals The design by an unknown artist of overlapping cubist apothecary jars and bottles in yellow brick red yellow and black covered sides of the facade and the interior walls of the premises at the southwest corner of Keys Street Beaumaris They were demolished during renovations in 2007 23 Significant mid century industrial design and fittings emerged from Beaumaris in the same period Donald Brown s aluminium BECO a k a Brown Evans and Co light fittings 90 featured in many houses particularly those by Robin Boyd in the 1950s and 60 s 91 while the designer of the famous Planet lamp was Bill Iggulden was a resident of Beaumaris 23 92 Beaumaris Art Group Edit In 1953 when Beaumaris still retained a village character a small band of resident artist friends including painter Inez Hutchinson 1890 1970 93 sculptor Joan Macrae 1918 2017 94 and ceramicist Betty Jennings staged an exhibition 95 which led to their establishing the Beaumaris Art Group a not for profit organisation later that year An exhibition in 1961 of five female artists including June Stephenson Sue McDougall Grace Somerville Margaret Dredge 96 and Inez Green raised funds for the Art Group 97 They continued to meet and exhibit at the Beaumaris State School 98 purchased land and built studios in 1965 designed by local architect C Bricknell at 84 98 Reserve Rd which were opened by director of the National Gallery of Victoria Dr Eric Westbrook who also launched the Inez Hutchinson awards in 1966 99 100 Further structural additions by John Thompson were added in 1975 76 101 102 103 23 Current President is Cate Rayson 104 Galleries Edit Beaumaris Art Group houses a small gallery and display cases in its premises in which it displays its annual shows open days and work by members 105 In the 1950s before construction of its own quarters in 1965 its first annual exhibitions were held at the State School 106 107 Clive Parry Galleries 108 managed by Russell K Davis operated from 1966 109 until 1979 at 468 Beach Road near the junction of Keys St and exhibited paintings drawings textiles 110 woodcraft 111 112 ceramics 113 114 115 116 117 jewellery 118 and graphics 119 by artists including Margaret Dredge Robert Grieve Wesley Penberthy Mac Betts 120 Kathleen Boyle 121 122 Colin Browne 123 Ian Armstrong Noel Counihan Wladyslaw Dutkiewicz David Dridan Judi Elliot 124 Vic Greenaway 113 114 125 126 Tim Guthrie Ann Graham 127 Erica McGilchrist 128 Warren Breninger Max Middleton 129 Millan Todd 130 Douglas Stubbs 131 Alfred Calkoen 132 Lynne Cooke Peter Glass 133 Noela Hjorth Bruno Leti Charles Billich Barbara Brash Dorothy Braund Murray Champion 134 Peter Jacobs 135 Marcella Hempel 110 Kevin Lincoln 136 Judy Lorraine 137 Mary MacQueen Helen Maudsley Jason Monet 138 Tim Moorhead 139 Victor O Connor Elizabeth Prior 140 Anne Judell Paul King 141 Nornie Gude Norman Lindsay Ailsa O Connor Jack Courier Alan Sumner Howard Arkley Alan Watt 115 Tina Wentcher 142 and William Dargie 143 In June 1975 1976 and 1977 it hosted the Inez Hutchinson Award presented by the Beaumaris Art Group 144 145 99 Other venues more recently have included the Ricketts Point Tea House 146 Creative professionals Edit Beside architects other creative professionals who were residents of Beaumaris include fashion designers Sally Brown Linda Jackson Pru Acton and Geoff Bade architect and historian Mary Turner Shaw graphic designers Frank Eidlitz and Brian Sadgrove flag designer and canvas goods manufacturer Ivor William Evans 1887 1960 147 journalist and nature writer Donald Alaster Macdonald 1859 1932 whose memorial is in Donald MacDonald reserve and whose ideas were continued in 1953 when the Beaumaris Tree Preservation Society now Beaumaris Conservation Society was formed to conserve bushland against accelerating land clearances for housing and to encourage planting of indigenous vegetation 148 Photojournalist J Brian McArdle editor of Walkabout magazine Musicians include Colin Hay 23 and Brett and Sally Iggulden children of Bill Iggulden who designed the Series K Planet Lamp in 1962 149 who were founders and members with others from the district of The Red Onion Jazz Band in the 1960s 150 Notable residents Edit Christine Abrahams director of eponymous gallery in Richmond lived at 372 Beach Road designed in 1961 by noted Melbourne architect Arthur Russell and next door to a block owned by Arthur Boyd 151 Pru Acton fashion designer Effie Baker photographer and advocate of the Baha i faith Clarice Beckett lived in Beaumaris and painted many landscapes of the area 82 Ivor Treharne Birtwistle journalist 152 Arthur and Yvonne Boyd artists Ivor William Evans flag designer and canvas goods manufacturer 153 Sir William Fry politician Leonard French Hal Gye artist William John Harris school principal and palaeontologist 154 Colin Hay musician actor Rex Hunt television personality Linda Jackson fashion designer Hugh Gemmell Lamb Smith Australian educator who landed at Anzac Cove on 25 April 1915 and son of former President of the Moorabbin Shire Council was born at Mrs Ricketts Dinas Bran in Wells Road Beaumaris then part of Cheltenham on 31 March 1889 Donald Alaster Macdonald naturalist and journalist Michael O Connell artist Owen Phillips army general Bruce Ruxton president of the Victorian branch of the RSL Mollie Shaw architect and historian Len Stretton judge and Royal Commissioner Saxil Tuxen surveyor and town planner 155 Demographics Edit At the 2021 Australian census the suburb of Beaumaris recorded a population of 13 947 people Of these 48 0 were male and 52 0 were female Aboriginal and or Torres Strait Islander people made up 0 2 of the population 156 Age distribution Residents tend to be somewhat older than the country overall The median age was 48 years compared to the national median of 38 years In Beaumaris in 2021 compared to Australia there was a higher proportion of people in the younger age groups 0 to 17 years as well as a higher proportion of people in the older age groups 60 years Overall 25 5 of the population was aged between 0 and 19 and 29 5 were aged 60 years and over compared with 23 6 and 23 respectively for Australia Education 41 5 of the population of Beaumaris hold a Bachelor or Higher degree compared to 26 3 across Australia The number in 2021 with no qualification 0 1 was smaller than the national 0 8 A larger percentage of persons had Advanced Diploma or Diplomas 11 4 compared to 9 4 nationally and a smaller percentage of persons held Vocational qualifications Of all people attending educational institutions 18 were secondary students in Independent schools compared to 13 3 attending Government schools Ethnic diversity In 2021 a smaller proportion of the population in Beaumaris 26 4 was recorded as born overseas compared to 33 1 being the national average with the major differences between the countries of birth of the population in Beaumaris and Australia being a larger percentage of people born in England 7 2 compared to 3 6 and a smaller percentage of people born in China 1 4 compared to 2 2 though the latter had grown by 64 persons between 2011 and 2016 In 2021 in Beaumaris 86 9 a higher proportion compared to 72 in Australia as a whole spoke English only In 13 6 of households another language other than English was used compared with 24 8 for all Australian households In the whole Beaumaris population Greek 1 6 was the most common other language spoken at home followed by Mandarin 1 7 German 0 9 and Italian 1 4 Finances The median household weekly income was 2 626 compared to the national median of 1 746 This difference is also reflected in real estate with the median mortgage payment being 3 000 per month compared to the national median of 1 863 Transport On the day of the Census 2 of employed people travelled to work on public transport and 42 by car either as driver or as passenger while nationally the percentages were a higher 4 6 using public transport and 57 8 using cars Housing The great majority 78 9 of occupied dwellings were separate houses 15 5 were semi detached 5 1 were flats units or apartments and 0 6 were other dwellings 79 4 of all dwellings were family homes while 19 8 held sole occupants Religion In Australia the biggest cohort people in the 2021 census at 38 4 and growing reported their religion as None and the percentage in Beaumaris was higher still at 45 3 21 4 of Beaumaris residents are Catholic compared to 20 across Australia 13 7 compared to 9 8 are Anglican and 3 5 are Eastern Orthodox compared to 2 1 nationally Politics EditFederal government Edit The Division of Goldstein is an Australian Electoral Division in Victoria The division was created in 1984 when the former Division of Balaclava was abolished It comprises the bayside suburbs Beaumaris Bentleigh Brighton Caulfield South Cheltenham part Gardenvale and Sandringham The division is named after early feminist parliamentary candidate Vida Goldstein It is represented by Independent Zoe Daniel State government Edit Beaumaris is in the electoral district of Sandringham one of the electoral districts of Victoria Australia for the Victorian Legislative Assembly with Black Rock and Sandringham and parts of Cheltenham Hampton Highett and Mentone Since the seat was created in 1955 it has been held by the Liberal Party except for the period 1982 5 when it was held by the Labor Party The seat is currently held by Brad Rowswell of the Liberal Party 2022 Victorian state election Sandringham 157 Party Candidate Votes Liberal Brad Rowswell 18 783 46 4 3 8Labor Bettina Prescott 10 426 25 7 7 4Greens Alysia Regan 5 949 14 7 6 5Independent Clarke Martin 2 800 6 9 1 6Animal Justice Barbara Eppingstall 976 2 4 0 8Democratic Labour Karla Zmegac 749 1 9 1 0Family First Jill Chalmers 572 1 8 1 8Independent Rodney Campbell 115 0 3 0 3Total formal votes 40 512 96 0 1 3Informal votes 1 699 4 0 0 8Turnout 42 211 91 2 2 2Two party preferred resultLiberal Brad Rowswell 22 399 55 2 4 8Labor Bettina Prescott 18 216 44 1 4 8Liberal hold Swing 4 8Results are not final Last updated at 1 25 on 12 December 2022 Local government Edit Beaumaris is in the local government area of the City of Bayside and occupies two of its wards since redistributions in 2008 Ebden west and north 158 and Beckett south and east 159 Current councillors elected October 2020 are Clarke Martin Beckett ward and Lawrence Evans Ebden ward who is Mayor Both are Independents See also EditCity of Moorabbin Parts of Beaumaris were previously within this former local government area City of Mordialloc Parts of Beaumaris were previously within this former local government area City of Sandringham Parts of Beaumaris were previously within this former local government area References Edit a b Australian Bureau of Statistics 28 June 2022 Beaumaris Vic Suburbs and Localities 2021 Census QuickStats Retrieved 16 July 2022 Postcode for Beaumaris Victoria postcodes australia com a b Singleton F A 1941 The Tertiary geology of Australia Proc R Soc Vict 53 1 125 CARTER A Phosphatic nodule beds in Victoria and the late Miocene Pliocene eustatic event Nature 276 258 259 1978 doi 10 1038 276258a0 King P R Cochrane R M amp Cooney A M 1987 Significant geological features along the coast in the City of Sandringham Unpub rep geol Surv Vict 1987 35 Neilson J L Peck W A Olds R J Seddon K D eds 1992 Engineering geology of Melbourne A A Balkema ISBN 978 0 203 75741 3 Beaumaris monocline PDF Coastal 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November 2008 retrieved 22 October 2008 Plan of Dalgety s Paddock at Rickards Point below Brighton 1876 retrieved 21 November 2021 NOTES AND NEWS The Leader Vol XV no 639 Victoria Australia 28 March 1868 p 5 Retrieved 15 November 2019 via National Library of Australia Phoenix Auctions History Post Office List retrieved 27 January 2021 Beaumaris Hotel c 1910 State Library Victoria Retrieved 15 November 2019 New Beaumaris Hotel conversion pays homage to site s storied history Propertyobserver com au 23 February 2014 Retrieved 15 November 2019 Frost D 2006 A short history of the Victorian railways trams St Kilda Brighton Sandringham Black Rock Beaumaris by David Frost Nunawading Vic Tramway Publications Trips by Rail from Melbourne To Sandringham Mentone Mordialloc Frankston Mornington Beaumaris on the Sea 1908 Australia n p The Beaumaris Tramway Company Limited The Argus No 13 926 Victoria Australia 11 February 1891 p 7 Retrieved 9 October 2019 via National Library of Australia WEDNESDAY JANUARY 21 1891 Argus 21 January 1891 Retrieved 30 November 2021 Promenade Concert At The Exhibition Age 21 December 1891 Retrieved 30 November 2021 Marshall Wood Leon 1966 The Brighton electric line 3rd ed rev and enl ed Traction Publications retrieved 15 October 2019 Harrigan Leo J Victorian Railways Public Relations and Betterment Board 1962 Victorian railways to 62 Victorian Railways Public Relations and Betterment Board retrieved 15 October 2019 Budd Dale Cross N E Norman E Wilson Randall 1951 1993 Destination city Melbourne s electric trams 5th ed Transit Australia Publishing ISBN 978 0 909459 17 8 a href Template Citation html title Template Citation citation a CS1 maint multiple names authors list link Marshall Wood Leon The Sandringham Black Rock Beaumaris Tramway from The Brighton Electric Line Marshall Wood Leon Australian Electric Traction Association 1956 The Brighton electric line Traction Publications retrieved 15 November 2019 Beaumaris Tram Company Kingston Local History Retrieved 23 August 2016 Engineer s Report to Council Minute Book Shire of Moorabbin 3 February 1896 Minute Book Shire of Moorabbin 3 August 1896 page 31 REPAIRS TO BATHS The Herald No 17 964 Victoria Australia 11 December 1934 p 7 Retrieved 15 November 2019 via National Library of Australia Beaumaris Baths Kingston Local History localhistory kingston vic gov au Retrieved 15 November 2019 Clarice Beckett Boatsheds in the storm 1934 oil on board 17 6 x 22 6cm Niagara Galleries 1945 Rydges Journal contained Dunlop Rubber Company s plan for Beaumaris village PDF Beaumaris Conservation Society 1945 Retrieved 25 August 2019 Barrow GJ 14 January 1944 A survey of houses affected in the Beaumaris fire Journal of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research 18 1 a b The Beaumaris Bushfires of 1944 Kingston Local History localhistory kingston vic gov au Retrieved 24 August 2019 20 Dead Missing in Mounting Bushfire Deathroll The Sun No 10 616 LATE FINAL EXTRA ed New South Wales 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Retrieved 24 August 2019 via National Library of Australia a b 50 000 Damage at Beaumaris Weekly Times No 3892 Victoria Australia 19 January 1944 p 5 Retrieved 24 August 2019 via National Library of Australia Cinderella suburb The Age No 29430 Victoria Australia 24 August 1949 p 6 Retrieved 5 September 2019 via National Library of Australia W L Murrell Hon Librarian Beaumaris and District Historical Trust album black covers title on front cover Beaumaris 1961 67 Roads and Streets Note on front cover The Teatree Tracks in the City of Sandringham shown in this collection have all been made into modern bitumen and concrete roads within the last six years ie by the end of 1967 search slv vic gov au Retrieved 5 September 2019 a b BEAU MARIS OR BARE MARIS Early pamphlet by the Beaumaris Tree Preservation Society urging retention of existing vegetation PDF Beaumaris Conservation Society Retrieved 5 September 2019 Memories of Point Avenue Beaumaris The Logical Place 1 February 2019 Retrieved 5 September 2019 Tim Harding Memories of Point Avenue Beaumaris In Sandringham amp District Historical Society Newsletter February 2019 DEPUTATIONS THIS DAY The Herald No 7205 Victoria Australia 28 January 1869 p 2 Retrieved 15 November 2019 via National Library of Australia BEAUMARIS AND CHELTENHAM COMMON SCHOOLS The Age No 4444 Victoria Australia 29 January 1869 p 3 Retrieved 15 November 2019 via National Library of Australia Beginnings of Cheltenham No84 Kingston Local History localhistory kingston vic gov au Retrieved 16 November 2019 MELBOURNE Geelong Advertiser No 9 481 Victoria Australia 28 November 1877 p 4 Retrieved 16 November 2019 via National Library of Australia BEAUMARIS Moorabbin News No 735 Victoria Australia 27 January 1917 p 4 Retrieved 15 November 2019 via National Library of Australia History BNPS Retrieved 16 November 2019 Stella Maris Catholic Primary School Beaumaris smbeaumaris catholic edu au Retrieved 16 November 2019 Beaumaris Secondary College Victorian School 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2021 The present moment the art of Clarice Beckett Tracey Lock Art Gallery of South Australia Adelaide Festival Adelaide ISBN 978 1 921668 46 3 OCLC 1244825369 Beckett art joins Misty Moderns in Langwarrin by Teresa Murphy Hastings Leader 12 November 2009 Niall Brenda 2002 The Boyds a family biography The Miegunyah Press Melbourne University Press ISBN 978 0 522 84871 7 Duet in ceramics The Canberra Times Vol 44 no 12 560 4 March 1970 p 20 Retrieved 5 September 2019 via National Library of Australia BECK Henry Hatton aka HATTON BECK Trove List Retrieved 25 August 2019 via Trove Godsell House by David Godsell Feature Mid Century Architecture VIC The Local Project 25 November 2018 Retrieved 25 November 2021 Wixted David Reeves Simon 11 May 2008 City of Bayside Inter War amp Post War Heritage Study Volume 2 PDF City of Bayside The City of Bayside amp heritage ALLIANCE Archived PDF from the original on 24 November 2021 Edgar Ray 22 August 2017 Online advocates fight to save Melbourne s 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Exhibition The Age p 2 Dog Fight and Art The Age 1 October 1956 p 2 Childs Kevin 25 November 1977 Inside Melbourne s art world The Age p 55 Advertisement The Age 10 September 1966 p 23 a b Greenwood Ted 9 November 1976 Tasteful weaving of skills The Age p 2 Greenwood Ted 30 November 1976 Craft Master in clay new to glass The Age p 2 Greenwood Ted 31 October 1978 Working with a respect for materials The Age p 2 a b Greenwood Ted 19 October 1976 Ceramic artists find new outlet The Age p 2 a b Greenwood Ted 26 March 1977 Personal touch succeeds The Age p 2 a b Greenwood Ted 7 November 1977 Porcelain has a message for us The Age p 2 An Age Weekender guide to Arts Victoria 78 Crafts The Age 3 February 1978 p 35 Greenwood Ted 1 May 1978 Craft Exhibition explores eloquence p 2 Greenwood Ted 14 November 1977 Craft p 2 Gilchrist Maureen 10 December 1975 End of year feeling at galleries The Age p 2 Gilchrist Maureen 16 June 1976 Little to stimulate a jaded viewer The Age p 2 Byrne Michele 29 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Australian Women s Weekly 1933 1982 6 May 1964 p 10 Retrieved 25 August 2019 Brown Jenny 13 February 2019 Historic mid century home on Beach Road Beaumaris is back on the market Domain Retrieved 30 August 2020 Porter Anne Birtwistle Ivor Treharne 1892 1976 Australian Dictionary of Biography Canberra National Centre of Biography Australian National University retrieved 25 November 2021 Ritchie John Evans Ivor William 1887 1960 Australian Dictionary of Biography Canberra National Centre of Biography Australian National University retrieved 25 November 2021 Darragh Thomas A Harris William John 1886 1957 Australian Dictionary of Biography Canberra National Centre of Biography Australian National University retrieved 25 November 2021 Australasian Urban History Planning History Conference 10th 2010 University of Melbourne Victoria Nichols David Hurlimann Anna Mouat Clare Pascoe Stephen 2010 Green fields brown fields new fields proceedings of the 10th Australasian Urban History Planning History conference Melbourne University Custom Book Centre p 621 n34 ISBN 978 1 921775 07 9 2021 Beaumaris Vic Census All persons QuickStats Australian Bureau of Statistics www abs gov au Retrieved 12 December 2022 Sandringham District results Victorian Electoral Commission Retrieved 1 December 2022 About the profile areas Ebden Ward profile id profile id com au Retrieved 24 November 2021 About the profile areas Beckett Ward profile id profile id com au Retrieved 24 November 2021 External links EditBayside City Council Website Australian Places Beaumaris Sandringham Secondary College Stella Maris Primary School Beaumaris Primary School Beaumaris Conservation Society Inc Royal Melbourne Golf Club Metlink Guide to transport in Melbourne A bird s eye view Beaumaris Community website of Beaumaris Community supported by the Community Bank Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Beaumaris Victoria amp oldid 1132882601, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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