Wattle Park is a park in Melbourne, Australia, located in the suburb of Surrey Hills. It is known for its plantation of 12,000 wattle trees. It is currently maintained by Parks Victoria The City of Melbournes coat of arms Melbourne is the capital and largest city of the state of Victoria, and the second largest city in Australia (after Sydney), with a population of 3,600,650 in the Melbourne metropolitan area (June 2004) and 61,670 in the City of... Surrey Hills is a suburb of Melbourne, Australia, in the state of Victoria. ... Wattle has several meanings: In engineering terms, originally wattle referred collectively to the flexible rods, branches or twigs from various plants woven together to make fences, walls and roofs (see wattle-and-daub). ...

History

The park was first created when the Hawthorn Tramway Trust purchased 137 acres (554,000 m²) of land from Mrs Eliza Welch, under the condition it was to be used as a public park. The park opened on the 31st of March, 1917 when Sir Arthur Stanley planted a Golden Wattle and named the park. March 31 is the 90th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (91st in Leap years). ... 1917 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...

Initially, due to the HTT's financial troubles further development of the park had been put off for some time. After the HTT had been amalgamated into the M&MTB, it was put off due to work on electrifying Melbourne's cable tramways. Planning & development of the park started in the 1920s and 30s, with a plantation of 12,000 wattle trees planted inbetween 1926 and 1928. A 9-hole golf course opened at Wattle Park in October 1937, with other facilities following later. Cable tram dummy and trailer on the St Kilda Line in Melbourne in 1905. ... Sometimes referred to as the Jazz Age or primarily in North America as the Roaring Twenties. // Events and trends Technology John T. Thompson invents Thompson submachine gun, also known as Tommy gun John Logie Baird invents the first working television system (1925) Charles Lindbergh becomes the first person to fly... // Events and trends The 1930s were spent struggling for a solution to the global depression. ... 1926 was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1928 was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... This article is about the sport of golf. ... October is the tenth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... 1937 was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ...

After the popularity of motor cars in the 1960s and 70s, the M&MTB had other priorities. After the M&MTB became part of the Metropolitan Transit Authority in 1983. Local residents complained to the state government about the poor state of Wattle Park. In 1991, ownership of Wattle Park was passed from the Public Transport Corporation to the Melbourne & Metropolitan Board of Works, which undertook a program to rehabilitate the park's landscape. The 1960s, or The Sixties, in its most obvious sense refers to the decade between 1960 and 1969, but the expression has taken on a wider meaning over the past twenty years. ... This article provides extensive lists of events and significant personalities of the 1970s. ... 1991 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Connection with trams

As Wattle Park for part of its life has being maintained by Melbourne's tram operators, it retains a connection with Melbourne's tramways. The Melbourne Tramways Band (sponsored by Yarra Trams) plays at Wattle Park once a month during spring and autumn. The bodies of two W2 class trams are used as shelters at Wattle Park, and Wattle Park is the current terminus of tram route 70. Yarra Trams is a tram operating company in Melbourne, Australia. ... Tram route 70 is a public transport service in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ...

External links

• Parks Victoria: Wattle Park
• TMSV: Wattle Park