Melbourne from Heidelberg Town Hall
View from Heidelberg Town Hall
Heidelberg Town Hall is a civic building located on Upper Heidelberg Road in Ivanhoe, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia. It is now more commonly known as The Centre Ivanhoe. Opened in April 1937, the building was designed by architectural firm Peck & Kemter in association with A.C. Leith & Bartlett for the Heidelberg City Council (now Banyule City Council) and was influenced by the Hilversum Town Hall in the Netherlands. It listed on the Victorian Heritage Register, described as “the greatest and most eloquent expression of the interwar brick Moderne style in Victoria.”
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Army signals museum
The Army Signals Museum has equipment going all the way back to the Boer War. It is located on an operational military base.
Heidelberg Town Hall (Ivanhoe Centre)
Despite the inaccuracy of weather forecasts, the intrepid Hidden Melbourne photographers packed their gear and headed up the clocktower of Ivanhoe Centre on Monday morning. The climb was steep, the gear was heavy but we made it and were greeted with an incredible view of the city.
Due to the prolific construction of modern highrise towers, it is no longer possible to have visual contact between the old grand towers of Melbourne.
The view from Ivanhoe Centre has great visual connections to many of the city towers and will allow us to jump through time and space to connect old and new views.
Enjoy the views of the city! Don't forget to click on the icon above the city and zoom in to great detail.
Heidelberg Town Hall is a civic building located on Upper Heidelberg Road in Ivanhoe, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia. It is now more commonly known as The Centre Ivanhoe
Opened in April 1937,[1] the building was designed by architectural firm Peck & Kemter in association with A.C. Leith & Bartlett for the Heidelberg City Council (now Banyule City Council) and was influenced by the Hilversum Town Hall in the Netherlands. It listed on the Victorian Heritage Register, described as “the greatest and most eloquent expression of the interwar brick Moderne style in Victoria.”[2] The architects were awarded the Royal Victorian Institute of Architects Victorian Street Architecture Medal for 1939 for the building.[3]
Not long after the town hall opened the council engaged Bill Glennon to organise public dances on Wednesday and Saturday nights.[4] An 18-piece dance band played in the Great Hall, two smaller downstairs rooms– the Streeton and Condor rooms has separate dances each featuring different music styles. The Streeton room featured “old-time’ music and the Condor Room, Jazz.
Free buses brought patrons from Melbourne’s Northern suburbs.[4] The dances were hugely popular, over 2000 people would attend on a Saturday night. Many locals recount meeting their spouses at the ’Berg.
The dances continued until the 1970’s.
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