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On 15 December 1994, the City of Mordialloc was abolished, and along with the City of Chelsea and parts of the Cities of Moorabbin, Oakleigh and Springvale, was merged into the newly created City of Kingston. The eastern section of Beaumaris was transferred to the newly created City of Bayside.
The new municipal area was called the Borough of Mentone and Mordialloc. This happened on May 27, 1920 but with steady growth and the influx of new residents the municipality reached a new stage in its civic development three years later when it was proclaimed a Town on April 17, 1923.
Mordialloc was originally established as a fishing village, and a firm of fish dealers named Wren Bros. built stables and men’s quarters near the Creek in the vicinity of what is now Main Street. Their business was in 1864 purchased by Messrs J Hill and W Hanneysee and later purchased and carried on by Messrs Croskell, Ritchie, & Co.
Mordialloc (/ ˌmɔːrdiˈælək / MOR-dee-AL-ək) is a beachside suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 24 km south-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Kingston local government area. Mordialloc recorded a population of 8,886 at the 2021 census. [ 1 ]
In 1920 Mordialloc separated from the Shire of Moorabbin to form the Borough of Mentone and Mordialloc, which became the City of Mordialloc in 1926. After the Parkdale railway station opened in 1924 the residential part of the city began to develop, but Mordialloc's population did not begin to increase markedly until after World War II.
On Tuesday 17 April Mordialloc became a town. On April 24 the name was changed to the Town of Mordialloc. On the 24th March the new building of St Nicholas’s Church of England designed by Louis Williams was dedicated by the Archbishop of Melbourne, Dr Harrington Lees. Access the Mordialloc Historical Walking Trail : Stop 20 website
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By 1871 the Roads Board had become the Shire of Moorabbin, a local council that controlled a sprawling district from the Bentleigh area in the north to points south of Mordialloc, and from the bayside town of Sandringham in the west to the open country around Heatherton in the east.
