Alphington Park

The suburb of Alphington was established along the Yarra River and a train-line connecting the centre of Melbourne to the eastern region of Heidelberg – known pejoratively in early years as the tediously slow line from “nowhere to nowhere”. The suburb was largely built in the extraordinary land boom years of the 1880s that gave rise to the label “Marvelous Melbourne”, when large areas of land were bought by private developers, subdivided and sold for private housing. The construction of ‘gentleman’s residences’ nearby to Alphington Park catered for the relatively affluent families, and some significant arts and crafts style bungalows remain in streets bordering the park today. The large paper mill site adjacent to the park reserve was first established in 1919, and it became the largest industrial complex in the district.

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