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Maton is an Australian musical instruments manufacturing company based in Box Hill, Melbourne. It was founded in 1946 by Bill May and his brother Reg. The name "Maton" came from the words "May Tone" and is pronounced May Tonne. Products currently manufactured by Maton include acoustic guitars and guitar pickups.
Melbourne Central is a large shopping centre, office, and public transport hub in the central business district of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.The main tower is 211-metre (692 ft) high, making it one of the tallest buildings in Melbourne at the time it was built in 1991.
The Melbourne central business district (colloquially known as "the City" or "the CBD", [4] and gazetted simply as Melbourne [5]) is the city centre of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. As of the 2021 census , the CBD had a population of 54,941, and is located primarily within the local government area City of Melbourne , with some parts located ...
Flinders Street station Hawthorn station The former Port Melbourne station, now a shop adjacent to a light rail stop. In cases where the heritage listing does not cover the entire station complex, the elements subject to the heritage listing are given.
Au Go Go Records is a Melbourne, Australia based independent record label. It was founded by Bruce Milne and Philip Morland from a house in Brunswick Street, Fitzroy in 1979 and was later operated by Greta Moon. The label started releasing bands on the Melbourne punk and new wave scene.
Along with Melbourne's other Victorian era arcade, the nearby Block Arcade, it is a tourist icon of the city, and forms part of the network of lanes and arcades in the CBD. The arcade is listed on the Victorian Heritage Register, [1] as well as by the National Trust of Australia. It also forms part of Melbourne's Golden Mile heritage walk. [3]
A 1925 article in The Australian Musical News outlining the history of the founders and companies which became Allans Music Gawler Place, Adelaide, Winter 2008. Allans was established in May 1850 when Joseph Wilkie and John Campbell Webster started a music warehouse (Wilkie and Webster) in Collins Street, Melbourne.
The Melbourne CBD was originally laid out by Robert Hoddle in 1837 as a rectangular grid of 8 x 4 city blocks, with open space reserved around the edges. Like most of early Australian town layouts, it lacked any kind of civic or open space within the grid, but had reserved blocks or allotments for markets, public buildings, and churches.