Glenroy, Victoria, Australia
This week someone in Glenroy, Austrailia, visited 2×2 Virtual Church.
There are two Glenroys—one in the northwest and one in the southeast. The dot on our Clustermap shows our visitor was in Victoria in the southeast.
Glenroy was first occupied by the aboriginal people, the Wurundjeri. During British colonial days it was a railroad stop. The area underwent fast growth post-World War II as government and businesses began to locate on the outskirts of Melbourne. Residential growth made it a suburb. Up until recently, most residents were native Australians. The community now includes a growing number of foreign-born residents.
Glenroy is dealing with some of the same challenges as our neighborhood, East Falls. East Falls was once a “suburb” of Philadelphia with a strong local identity of native-born Fallsers. That’s been changing for a while!
Here is the difference 150 years made in Glenroy, Australia.
Fallsers, keep in mind—Henry Avenue was a dirt road 120 years ago! Cowboy westerns were being filmed on the land where the Medical College now sits and most of the homes housed mill workers for factories lining the Schuylkill River.
