Brighton is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 12 km south-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Bayside. At the 2006 Census, Brighton had a population of 20,651.
Brighton was subdivided in 1841 by Henry Dendy in the area bounded by the coastline, North Road, East Boundary Road and South Road. In 1841 the first land sales were in Waterville but this soon became Brighton, named after Bri...
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Brighton is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 12 km south-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Bayside. At the 2006 Census, Brighton had a population of 20,651.
Brighton was subdivided in 1841 by Henry Dendy in the area bounded by the coastline, North Road, East Boundary Road and South Road. In 1841 the first land sales were in Waterville but this soon became Brighton, named after Brighton in England. Sales were slow at first and the Brighton Post Office was not opened until 19 April 1853.
The noted bathing boxes in Brighton are known to have existed as far back as 1862, although the earliest ones were at the water's edge at the end of Bay St rather than their present location on Dendy Street Beach just south of Middle Brighton. In 1906, the completion of a tram line from St Kilda to Brighton led to an increase in applications for bathing box permits and significant construction between 1908 and 1911; final numbers are...
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