Police are investigating a fatal crash in Thomastown.Investigators have been told the driver of a Toyota coupe…
17/07/2024
17/06/2024
Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding a sexual assault in Thomastown on 8 April.
It is believed an unknown offender approached the victim at a railway station on Spring Street around 11:20pm and sexually assaulted them.
Investigators have released an image of a person who may be able to assist with enquiries.
Anyone with information is urged to contact Mernda SOCIT on 9216 1310.
Anonymous reports can also be submitted to Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or online at www.crimestoppersvic.com.au.
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29/05/2024
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23/05/2024
From a local:
2 guys came to my house at 1 am trying to get in. Stay safe everyone and please be mindful. This was near Kingsway Drive
12/05/2024
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24/04/2024
From a local
🔴🔴 Hit & Run on Edgars Rd 🔴🔴
Hi, last night 23/04 my sister was hit by a car on Edgar’s road Thomastown, where the 7/11 crossing is, coming from Main Street to 7/11 at around 6:50pm If anyone has witnessed this please give me a message/comment/call please as the guy who hit her, stopped to give details and then took off not waiting for the police or ambulance. Please please reach out to me if anyone saw it. Thank you!!!!
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Lalor is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 18 kilometres (11 mi) north of Melbourne's central business district in the local government area of the City of Whittlesea. At the 2016 Census, Lalor had a population of 22,594.
Lalor was named in honour of Peter Lalor, a leader of the Eureka Stockade rebellion and later member of the Victorian parliament. The suburb was originally pronounced /ˈlɔːlər/ (locally [ˈloːlə]), after Peter Lalor, and although some people still pronounce it as such, in recent times the pronunciation /ˈleɪlɔːr/ or /-lər/ (locally [ˈlæɪloː, -lə]) has become predominant, whilst the Federal electorate of Lalor is still predominantly pronounced /ˈlɔːlər/, locally [ˈloːlə].
The eastern and western borders of Lalor are defined by Darebin Creek and Merri Creek respectively.
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. 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.
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.
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. The Station was opened 30 January 1958 and was closed in 1997 and now served by the Epping Fire Station.
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.
Many Streets in Lalor were named by the Peter Lalor Home Building Co-operative Society after prominent civilian and military figures.
