Long Gully

Long Gully
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Long Gully is located in City of Bendigo
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Coordinates: 36°44′S 144°15′E / 36.733°S 144.250°E / -36.733; 144.250
CountryAustralia
StateVictoria
CityBendigo
LGA
Location
Government
 • State electorate
 • Federal division
Population
 • Total3,383 (2016 census)[2]
Postcode
3550[3]

Long Gully is a suburb of Bendigo in Victoria, Australia. It is located 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) north-west of the Bendigo central business district. At the 2016 census, Long Gully had a population of 3,383.[2]

Long Gully is a working-class suburb of Bendigo, with many older style fibro houses, punctuated by well-established light industry. The suburb is the location of the Bendigo RSL club, in Havilah Road.

History

Long Gully was home to the Carlisle United Gold Mine (formerly the Kentish Mine), which was the richest mine in Bendigo, producing 21.5 tonnes of gold in its lifetime.[4]

Long Gully was heavily affected by the Black Saturday bushfires on 7 February 2009, causing one death.[5]

Amenities

Schools and churches

Long Gully Primary School (No. 2120) was built in 1879. When it closed in 1992, a majority of the students were transferred to Comet Hill Primary School.[4]

Long Gully had several churches built throughout its history. A uniting church (originally a Methodist church) was built in 1877. In 1883, St Matthew's Anglican Church was built. A third church, the Church of Pius X, was built in 1956, and is now privately owned.[4]

Fire stations

In 1873, the Long Gully Fire Brigade was formed. It operated from a fire station until a second fire station was opened in 1932; the first station was deregistered the same year.[4]

Notable residents

It is the birthplace of Dick Richards, GC (14 November 1894 – 8 May 1986).[6] Richards was an Australian science teacher who joined Sir Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition in December 1914 as a physicist with the Ross Sea Party. He was 22 years old. He outlived all other members of the expedition and became the last survivor of the so-called "Heroic Age" of Antarctic exploration, dying at the age of 91 in 1986. His life-saving feats in the Antarctic are detailed in the book Shackleton's Heroes.

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  1. ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Long Gully (suburb and locality)". Australian Census 2021 QuickStats. Retrieved 28 June 2022. Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^ a b "2016 QuickStats Long Gully". Australian Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 19 July 2018.
  3. ^ "3550 Postcode - Australia Post". Australia Post. Retrieved 31 January 2026.
  4. ^ a b c d Arnold, Jean; Arnold, Ken (2007). Out & About: Eaglehawk to Bendigo CBD. Bendigo, Victoria: Crown Castleton Publishers. p. 23-25. ISBN 9781875342709.
  5. ^ "Victoria under siege as fires rage across state". Herald Sun. 8 February 2009. Archived from the original on 8 February 2009. Retrieved 8 February 2009.
  6. ^ McOrist, Wilson Shackleton's Heroes The Robson Press, London, 2015 ISBN 978-1-84954-815-1


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