Syndal, Victoria
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The area in the Melbourne
suburbs of Mount Waverley and Glen Waverley in Victoria
, Australia around the intersection of High Street Road and Blackburn Road is known as Syndal. From the intersection down to Syndal railway station
on Coleman Parade, is the Syndal Shopping Centre. This strip is a highly populated commercial area encompassing a number of diverse local interest stores including several take-away food shops, a laundromat,Bridal & Wedding Dress dry cleaner and everything in between.
The commercial area is renowned for many long established specialist businesses.Syndal's Bridal Dry Cleaners are Australia's largest bridal & wedding dress dry cleaner & were established in 1995.They are situated on Blackburn Road. They have since opened another store in Ascot Vale again specializing only in the hand cleaning of bridal gowns & wedding dresses. They also specialize in evening wear , formal gowns & delicate dry cleaning. Syndal Music, a specialist musical instrument store, was established in 1980. It has operated since 1990 under the same ownership. Tanner's Swiss Patisserie has received many awards for their fine pastries and cakes, having operated in the area since the mid 1980s. M for Hair, a popular hairdressing salon, has operated there since 1995. Several other Syndal businesses, including the post office, Aqua City Pool and Spa Center, and several more, have relocated within the strip. The intersection used to have three service stations and two banks, but today has none of either. More recently, the area has attracted more notice from larger franchised stores, Blockbuster Video previously on the corner of Blackburn Road and High Street Road (Supercheap Auto is now located there), and the most recent addition being the Subway store.
Notably, Syndal does have its own Australia Post
post office, although Syndal is still part of the greater Mount Waverley and Glen Waverley suburbs, and shares the same postal code
as Mount Waverley, 3149, or Glen Waverley, 3150.
Syndal was originally the name of a 114 acre (0.46134204 km²) farm owned by Sir Redmond Barry
on High Street Road. The name for the locality was reclaimed in 1930 when the railway line to Glen Waverley station was opened and the name for the station at Blackburn Road and Coleman Parade had to be decided. The centre of the Syndal locality is on High Street Road, west of the Blackburn Road intersection.
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suburbs of Mount Waverley and Glen Waverley in Victoria
Victoria (Australia)
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, Australia around the intersection of High Street Road and Blackburn Road is known as Syndal. From the intersection down to Syndal railway station
Syndal railway station, Melbourne
Syndal is a railway station in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, located in the locality of Syndal, in the suburb of Glen Waverley, on the Glen Waverley railway line...
on Coleman Parade, is the Syndal Shopping Centre. This strip is a highly populated commercial area encompassing a number of diverse local interest stores including several take-away food shops, a laundromat,Bridal & Wedding Dress dry cleaner and everything in between.
The commercial area is renowned for many long established specialist businesses.Syndal's Bridal Dry Cleaners are Australia's largest bridal & wedding dress dry cleaner & were established in 1995.They are situated on Blackburn Road. They have since opened another store in Ascot Vale again specializing only in the hand cleaning of bridal gowns & wedding dresses. They also specialize in evening wear , formal gowns & delicate dry cleaning. Syndal Music, a specialist musical instrument store, was established in 1980. It has operated since 1990 under the same ownership. Tanner's Swiss Patisserie has received many awards for their fine pastries and cakes, having operated in the area since the mid 1980s. M for Hair, a popular hairdressing salon, has operated there since 1995. Several other Syndal businesses, including the post office, Aqua City Pool and Spa Center, and several more, have relocated within the strip. The intersection used to have three service stations and two banks, but today has none of either. More recently, the area has attracted more notice from larger franchised stores, Blockbuster Video previously on the corner of Blackburn Road and High Street Road (Supercheap Auto is now located there), and the most recent addition being the Subway store.
Notably, Syndal does have its own Australia Post
Australia Post
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post office, although Syndal is still part of the greater Mount Waverley and Glen Waverley suburbs, and shares the same postal code
Postal code
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as Mount Waverley, 3149, or Glen Waverley, 3150.
Syndal was originally the name of a 114 acre (0.46134204 km²) farm owned by Sir Redmond Barry
Redmond Barry
Sir Redmond Barry KCMG was an Irish colonial judge in Victoria, Australia.-Early life:Barry was the son of Major-General Henry Green Barry, of Ballyclough, County Cork and his wife Phoebe Drought, daughter of John Armstrong Drought and Letita Head...
on High Street Road. The name for the locality was reclaimed in 1930 when the railway line to Glen Waverley station was opened and the name for the station at Blackburn Road and Coleman Parade had to be decided. The centre of the Syndal locality is on High Street Road, west of the Blackburn Road intersection.