21-1088: Mentone may refer to: Places [ edit ] Mentone, Victoria , Australia Mentone Beach , Port Phillip Bay, Victoria, Australia Electoral district of Mentone , Victoria, Australia Menton , France; sometimes known by its Italian name Mentone United States [ edit ] Mentone, Alabama Mentone, California Mentone, Indiana Mentone, Texas Schools [ edit ] Mentone Grammar School , Mentone, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Mentone Girls' Grammar School , Mentone, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Mentone Girls' Secondary College , Mentone, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Other uses [ edit ] Mentone Productions , U.S. film company Mentone railway station , Mentone, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia See also [ edit ] [REDACTED] Search for "mentone" on Misplaced Pages. All pages with titles beginning with Mentone All pages with titles containing Mentone [REDACTED] Topics referred to by
42-558: A four-lane, single-carriageway road and the speed limit is reduced back to 60 km/h. Continuing south, it passes through Nepean Highway in Mentone (where the highway declaration ends), where it narrows again to a dual-lane, single-carriageway road, crosses the Frankston railway line , before eventually terminating at an uncontrolled T-intersection with Beach Road in Parkdale . Warrigal Road
63-738: A number of apartments. The Mentone RSL is housed in a building dating to 1884–1886. One of Australia's last Blockbuster Video stores was in Mentone but has since closed down. ^ = territory divided with another LGA Warrigal Road Warrigal Road is a major inner urban road in southeastern Melbourne , Australia. On weekdays, it is heavily trafficked as it runs through many major suburbs along its route, traversing some of Melbourne's eastern and south-eastern suburbs. These suburbs include Chadstone , Oakleigh , and Cheltenham . The Chadstone Shopping Centre can be accessed directly from Warrigal Road at its eastern entrance. Warrigal Road begins at
84-528: Is aligned with the 1 mile (1.6 km) cadastral survey grid of Melbourne, and is 8 miles (13 km) east of the survey datum at Batman's Hill . The Country Roads Board (later VicRoads ) declared Warrigal Road a Main Road in the 1937–38 financial year, from Canterbury Road in Surrey Hills to Centre Road, Oakleigh South . The bridge over Gardiners Creek at Ashwood was also replaced during this period:
105-569: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Mentone, Victoria Mentone is a suburb in Melbourne , Victoria , Australia , 21 km south-east of Melbourne's Central Business District , located within the City of Kingston local government area . Mentone recorded a population of 13,197 at the 2021 census . It is known locally for Mentone Beach , which extends alongside Beaumaris Bay from
126-600: Is situated in the Electoral district of Mordialloc and Sandringham for state parliament and the Electoral district of Isaacs in the federal system. In the 2018 Victorian State election and the 2019 Australian Federal Election, every booth in Mentone reported a majority of votes for the Labor Party . Mentone is located on the Nepean Highway . Mentone is serviced by a variety of Public Transport Victoria buses, which are
147-722: The Glen Waverley railway line (where the bus lanes end) and the Monash Freeway in Chadstone to the intersection with Princes Highway . Continuing south as a four-lane, single-carriageway road, it crosses over the Pakenham railway line through Oakleigh until the intersection of Old Dandenong Road, Oakleigh South , where it widens again to a six-lane, dual-carriageway road with a speed limit of 70 km/h and continues south through Heatherton until Bernard Street, where it narrows again to
168-455: The 903 bus from Mordialloc , 811 and 812 from Brighton and Dandenong , The 708 to Hampton and Carrum and the 825 and Metro Trains Melbourne services, focused on the Mentone railway station , a station on the Frankston train line. The station opened on 19 December 1881 as Balcombe Road. A new railway station was built at Mentone in 2020 as part of the Victorian government’s removal of
189-616: The centre of the suburb. Mentone were promoted to the Premier Division in 2010. In late 2013 it was announced the iconic Mentone Tenpin Bowl on the corner of the Nepean Hwy and Warrigal Rd would close by the end of that year after fifty years of operation in order to make way for a new multi-storey residential apartment and retail complex. The Mentone Hotel was a historical hotel building overlooking Port Phillip Bay . It has been renovated into
210-678: The cliffs in Beaumaris and ends at Warrigal Road where it meets Parkdale . Mentone is associated with the Heidelberg School of Australian artists. Mentone was founded as a resort town named after the Italian spelling of the formerly-Italian French town Menton . In order to keep with the Italian resort theme many streets in Mentone were named after Italian cities for example, Cremona Street, Florence Street, Venice Street and Milan Street and Naples street The development of Mentone began in
231-525: The corner of Brindisi Street and Mentone Parade, Mentone in 1906 and after the new fire station was built it was relocated to Lalor in 1957. Mentone is home to a lively shopping area along Como Parade West, Balcombe Road, Mentone Parade and surrounding streets and laneways. This shopping strip offers a wide range of restaurants, cafes, bakeries, clothing stores, supermarkets, travel agents, fancy dress, craft, home, book stores and more. A second commercial area has grown along Nepean Highway ; this may expand as
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#1732852370643252-499: The former Nylex factory site between Nepean Highway and Warrigal road is redeveloped into a bulky goods retail precinct. Neighbouring suburb, Cheltenham , comprises one of the biggest shopping centres in Australia – Westfield Southland . This shopping mall incorporates a two-level bridge that spans the six lanes of Nepean Highway. It is the main shopping centre for people of Mentone and surrounds. A new train station opened in 2017 on
273-479: The intersection with Canterbury Road in Surrey Hills and runs south as a four-lane, single-carriageway road with a speed limit at 60 km/h, up and down steep gradients, through the intersection with Toorak Road and Burwood Highway at Burwood (where the highway declaration starts) and continues south to the intersection with High Street Road at Ashwood , where the road widens to a six-lane, dual-carriageway road with bus lanes. Continuing south, it crosses under
294-505: The late 1800s, the Post Office opening on 16 May 1884. Tom Roberts and Frederick McCubbin were painting on the beach at Mentone one day in the summer of 1886-87 when they noticed a young man painting nearby. This was Arthur Streeton who they asked to join them. They, and others, later became known as the Heidelberg school of artists. The original Mentone Fire station was located on
315-416: The level crossing previously on Balcombe Road. The Mentone Beach and Mentone Lifesaving Club provide leisure space and activities, as do the parkland and oval near the council offices. Mentone is also home to numerous sporting clubs including cricket, football, tennis, swimming, field hockey, and lawn bowling. Mentone Bowling Club was established in the early 1900s. The club is next to the train station in
336-430: The old structure was demolished, and a new bridge was built on an improved alignment with the road immediately downstream of the old one. The new bridge opened on 25 October 1938, for a total cost of approximately A£ 4,100. It was later widened to take four lanes of traffic in 1958, using the unusual measure of cutting and jacking over to a new position of the footways and hand-rails of the existing structure, and widening
357-632: The road between them; this procedure cost much less than would have been the cost of demolishing the footway and casting a new section. Construction of a road-over-rail overpass at the level crossing with the Pakenham railway line in Oakleigh , with assistance from Victorian Railways , was completed in the 1967–68 financial year. Warrigal Road was signed as Metropolitan Route 15 between Surrey Hills and Parkdale in 1965. Metropolitan Route 14 previously ran concurrent along Warrigal Road from South Road at Oakleigh South to Kingston Road at Heatherton from 1989; this
378-425: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mentone&oldid=1214655637 " Category : Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
399-509: The west side of Southland near Bay Street. In late 2010, Thrift Park shopping centre between Lower Dandenong Road and Nepean Highway just east of Warrigal Road went through with a $ 35-million redevelopment. The redevelopment included demolishing the original centre that was "ageing" and building a larger Woolworths supermarket plus additional stores. The centre officially opened in December 2010. In terms of State and Federal Government Mentone
420-753: Was declared a State Highway in December 1990, from the South Eastern Arterial at Chadstone to the Nepean Highway in Mentone , and was extended north from the South Eastern Arterial to Burwood Highway at Burwood in October 1993; the road was known (and signposted) as Warrigal Road along its entire length. The passing of the Road Management Act 2004 granted the responsibility of overall management and development of Victoria's major arterial roads to VicRoads : in 2004, VicRoads re-declared
441-577: Was removed when Metropolitan Route 14 was re-routed along Dingley Bypass when it opened in 2016. The passing of the Transport Act of 1983 (itself an evolution from the original Highways and Vehicles Act of 1924 ) provided for the declaration of State Highways, roads two-thirds financed by the State government through the Road Construction Authority (later VicRoads ). The Warrigal Highway
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