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Croydon is the host suburb of the Maroondah Festival, which is held yearly in Croydon Park. Performers have included Kate Ceberano, Vanessa Amorosi, Paul Kelly, Johnny Diesel, Hunters and Collectors, The Living End, 28 Days, Spiderbait, Kisschasy and even a few international acts. Kate Ceberano Kate Ceberano (born November 17, 1966) is an award winning Australian pop vocalist and entertainer. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Paul Maurice Kelly (born 13 January 1955 in Adelaide, South Australia) is an Australian singer-songwriter and is recognised as an icon of Australian popular music as a member of the ARIA Hall of Fame. ... Diesel bursts out of Perth in 1987 with the band Johnny Diesel and the Injectors. ... For the anthropological concept, see Hunter-gatherer. ... The Living End are an Australian punkabilly band, based in Melbourne, Victoria. ... 28 Days are a punk rock band from Frankston, Australia. ... Spiderbait are an Australian rock band who have had two top ten albums and another three albums reach the Australian top 40. ... Kisschasy is a rock band from Melbourne, Australia. ...

Swinburne University of Technology has a campus in Croydon, offering TAFE courses and apprenticeship training. Croydon contains one railway station, Croydon, on the Lilydale line. It is also the home of EV's Youth Centre, a long-standing local venue for all-ages live music events. Bass player for 28 Days, Damian Gardiner, grew up in Croydon. Swinburne University of Technology is a university based in a number of campuses in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Australia. ... In Australia, Technical and Further Education or TAFE institutions are those which offer a wide range of post-secondary education and training, generally in vocational fields (such as hospitality, tourism, construction, woodwork, secretarial skills, community work, etc), often at a level of difficulty below that of a corresponding or related... Apprenticeship is a system of training a new generation of skilled crafts practitioners, which is still popular in some countries. ... View of the enclosed waiting room on Platform 1 Croydon is a railway station in Melbourne, Victoria, located in the suburb of Croydon, on the Lilydale railway line. ... The Lilydale railway line is a suburban railway in Melbourne, Australia. ... 28 Days are a punk rock band from Frankston, Australia. ...

Burnt Bridge

Burnt Bridge is an area within the Melbourne suburb of Croydon, in Victoria, Australia. It is named after the Burnt Bridge Hotel, which was operated by Elizabeth Moore and Lucy Dawson as early as the 1840s, and located along the Lilydale Trail, near the present day junction of Maroondah Highway and Old Lilydale Road. At the time of the hotels existence, the area was grazing land. Hotels in these times usually began as shanties, selling coffee to passing coaches, before gaining their liquor licences.

Although some historians have speculated that the name is derived from the Scottish word 'burn', meaning 'stream', it is more popularly believed to be derived from a canvas toll bridge in the area which was burnt down. The hotel was also known to locals as The Blazing Stump.

History

Croydon was founded by a young man by the name of David Stephensen and began as the home of Warrandyte South Railway Station (since rebuilt as the current station). Travellers would travel by rail to the then unnamed station, and were then faced with a horse & coach ride to Warrandyte, which was not expected by many people. The station, along with the town that grew from it, was re-named Croydon, after Croydon, England. Warrandyte is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 24km east-north-east of Melbourne. ... Croydon is a large town and major commercial centre in southern England, and is also an area of Greater London, being the main settlement in the London Borough of Croydon. ...

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Coordinates: 37°47′46″ S 145°16′52″ E / -37.796, 145.281 Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...

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