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Albion is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 13 km west from Melbourne's central business district. Its local government area is the City of Brimbank. At the Albion had a population of 4,337. Albion is bordered on the north by Ballarat Road, the south by Forrest Street, the west by Kororoit Creek and the east by Anderson Road. The suburb is completely surrounded by other parts of Sunshine except for Ardeer, which lies to Albion's due west across Kororoit Creek. == History == (詳細はAlbion being an ancient name for the island of Great Britain. Albion station opened on 5 January 1860 as ''Albion and Darlington'' but closed a year later.〔(VICSIG Infrastructure - Albion )〕 It was not until 1919 that a new station was opened on the same site with the name ''Albion'' station.〔 In March 1885 the ''Albion Quarrying Company'' began its operations in the area〔(A Stroll Along the Merri - Provenance Number 6 - PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE VICTORIA )〕〔Kennedy, B: ''Australian Place Names'', page 3. ABC Books, 2006〕 The disused Albion quarry, accessed from Hulett St, was the location for AC/DC's Jailbreak music video.〔Evans, Mark, ''Dirty Deeds: My Life Inside/Outside of AC/DC'', Bazillion Points, 2011〕 It was H. V. McKay of Sunshine Harvester Works fame who bought land to develop a residential community for his workers in first decades on the 20th century. His concept for Sunshine was the ''Sunshine Estate'': a community developed according to the ideals of the Garden city movement, an influential town planning movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.〔(HO Selwyn Park )〕〔(HO Sugar Gum row )〕 This area was mainly in what is now called Albion. McKay's own residence, ''The Gables'', was in Talmage Street (where the cul-de-sac The Gables now is) until it was demolished. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Albion, Victoria」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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