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Lalor is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, north of Melbourne's central business district in the local government area of the City of Whittlesea. At the 2011 Census, Lalor had a population of 19,873. Lalor is named after Peter Lalor, leader of the Eureka Stockade rebellion and later member of the Victorian parliament. The suburb was originally pronounced (locally ), after Peter Lalor, and although some people still pronounce it as such, in recent times the pronunciation or (locally ) has become predominant, whilst the Federal electorate of Lalor is still predominantly pronounced , locally . The eastern and western borders of Lalor are defined by Darebin Creek and Merri Creek respectively. ==History== Lalor was a part of Thomastown. In 1945, Leo Purcell, while a patient at a military hospital on the Atherton Tableland, worked out a scheme to provide low-cost homes, that in February 1947 became known as "Peter Lalor Co-operative Family Scheme" and with a group of ex-servicemen formed the ''Peter Lalor Home Building Co-operative Society''.〔(Victoria Gazette ), No. 28.-22 January 1947—Page 198 NOTICE is hereby given that a society called "The Peter Lalor Home Building Cooperative Society Limited" is registered under the provisions of the above Act. Given under my hand, this sixteenth day of January 1947, A. E. RASMUSSEN, Registrar of Friendly Societies.〕〔(Key is give and take ), ''Mr McVicar and his brother joined the Peter Lalor Home-Building Co-operative Society, building the home the couple have lived in for 60 years.'' 8 February 2011, by Melissa Merrett, Whittlesea Leader〕 The scheme was sponsored by the ex-servicemen's committee of the central executive of the Victorian Labour Party. They chose two hundred and fifty-eight acres east of today's Lalor railway station to be the site of the new developments and the town planner Saxil Tuxen was hired to design a garden suburb.〔(Thomastown & Lalor )-WCF Areas-Whittlesea Community Futures〕 Lalor Post Office was opened on 1 August 1949. Although the Co-operative succeeded in beginning a program of house building, under-capitalisation resulted in the venture being taken over by the War Service Homes Commission in 1954.〔(Lalor )-Place-eMelbourne-The Encyclopedia of Melbourne Online〕〔(Lalor overcame early set-back ), 6 September 1977, The Age〕 Originally built as the Mentone Fire station on the corner of Brindisi Street and Mentone Parade, Mentone in 1906, the building was relocated to 24 Vasey Street, Lalor in 1957 to become the Lalor Fire Station.〔(Did You Know?: Foundation of the Mentone Fire Brigade ), ''The Mentone station on the corner of Brindisi Street and Mentone Parade continued to serve the local community until 1956 when a new building was constructed..''〕 The Station was opened 30 January 1958 and was closed in 1997 and now served by the Epping Fire Station.〔http://www.wikinorthia.net.au/index.php/Thomastown_History_of#Communication〕〔(Epping's new fire brigade captain ready for challenge ), 4 December 2008, by Saeed Saeed, Whittlesea Leader〕〔($4.3m BUILDING PROGRAM FOR YOUNG DISABLED ADULTS—NAPTHINE ), Saturday, 12 April 1997., LALOR. Whittlesea ATSS in Lalor will receive $50,000 towards the refurbishment of a house. Whittlesea ATSS redeveloped the old Lalor Fire Station into a community options day service and will now renovate the fire station house adjacent to expand the day service and cater initially for two consumers.〕 In 2010, Stockade Park was redeveloped. This site, enclosed by Paschke Crescent and leading to Rochdale Square, marks the location of the Peter Lalor home building co-operative's ''Stockade''—an area that housed the tools and materials for the workers of the Co-operative that built Lalor.〔(Stockade Park, Lalor ), Fitzgerald Frisby Landscape Architecture〕〔(Stockade Reserve ) Yarra Plenty Regional Library〕 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「Lalor, Victoria」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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