Ross Jon

History First: Actor Paul Hogan grew up in Granville but was not born here. The name Granville comes from and named after - Granville George Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville (11 May 1815 – 31 March 1891), styled Lord Leveson until 1846, was a British Liberal Statesman from the Leveson-Gower Family, Lord Granville owned coal and ironstone mines with 105 Furnaces in England. Irish people in the 1800's used to live in Granville and armed themselves up to fight the British Army at Parramatta NSW which lasted 6 months which the British had to after recruit more soldiers from Orange NSW to Gosford and New Castle NSW because the Irish were putting up a good fight and then the Irish lost the battle at a great loss due to infections and inexperience. Before 1955 Granville had a lot of Flower farms one old man said to me he said it was bloody beautiful. -- I came to Granville from the country 160 miles away 30 years ago but I lived in Sydney for 15 years before I moved to the country so when I moved to Granville in 1987 - 97% of the young people between 18 to 35 years old moved out of Granville by 1985 and the reason for this is they got good jobs and moved to better Sydney suburbs, North Coast, Gold Coast, Melbourne and some proberly went to prison. So even now Granville does not have much young children here from 0 to 19 years old according to the stats at 24000 and its nearly half of Ryde and Baulkham Hills at 41300 children compared to Ryde of 41573 children so your child may but not certain may know less children or have less friends. There is four primary schools in Granville and one mix and one boys high school pretty good for a small suburb. Granville is great in some aspects which is next to the big new Merrylands Stocklands Shopping Centre, Parramatta Westfields and Cinema, Auburn's great eatery suburb, and Guildford's small shopping Centre and Granville has a few medical centres which have very good Doctors. It has a 50 meter long swimming pool and a childrens pool and other small pool in the same centre and this is where actor Paul Hogan meet his wife because they grew up in Granville which is a grave media secret. Granville was a blue collar working class suburb during the 1960's, 1970's 1980's and 1990's with good people and pretty bad people but has improved and changed but not changed dramatically. There is three different Union offices in Granville. There is a certain amount of a nationality group who dominate this suburb of Granville including into Merrylands and Guildford but they are very good as long as you do not make trouble and its a possability you are going to get followed and threatened if you make trouble and yet I have not heard anybody being threatened in this way for a very very long time. You can walk in Granville late at night by yourself and into the early morning and nobody will hurt or follow you. I do not take my car to repair it at any mechanic here anymore because I am not from the same nationality as they are so you will get less quality work and ripped off nor do I get my hair cut here but its alright for woman from other nationalities to get their hair cut here but I do advice them not to take their car to a mechanic here its better to take your car to the bigger popular places. Granville eatery and coffee is not at its best so its better to go to Auburn, Merrylands or Westfield Parramatta. The Train Station has four tracks and has a 2 stop early morning fast train to the City on working days but after 10 AM you will get some trains which travel 10 km/h all the way to Strathfield and its annoying. The bus services are now great and there is even one which goes and comes back from Hurstville from along Blaxcell Street to the Station and people do offer the elderly a seat in Granville. It will take you one hour to drive to Bondi Beach so you better have your car air conditioner in full working condition because there is warm and hot air in summer time and having the windows down will be a full waste of time going to the beach. There is four pubs in Granville which two are on Parramatta Road. The houses are getting expensive in 2017, a unrenovated Fibro 3 bedroom house tile roof with unrenovated outside 7ft ceiling granny flat with carport sold in September 2017 for $850,000 on a good street so if you can not afford in the inner west or eastern suburbs your best bet is buying here in Granville which is next to Parramatta City Central Business District and you can take your children possibly to the private Kings School at Nth Parramatta. Granville has a big Tafe college with big on-site parking and with canteen serving hamburgers but now the Welding Course has been canceled and with other courses you might need to go to Bankstown Tafe which off-street parking is very hard to find at night and day. Demographic Snapshot: Population: 11,266 Dwellings Total:3328 - Born Overseas: 43%. - Religions: Christian 35.9%, Islam 19.3%, Buddhism 5%, Hinduism 8.3%. - Employment Work Force: Managers 6.8%, Technicians/Trades 14.9%, Professionals 17.2%, Com/Personal Services 10.7%, Sales 10%, Labourers 13.8%, Clerical Admin 14.7%, Machinery Op/Drivers 8.1%.- Travel to Work: Car 52.6%, Train 29.7%, Bus 1.8%. - Number of cars per dwelling: No Car 17.6%, One 37.3%, Two/more 33.3%.

Its a nice hilly viewy green leafy quite suburb and has that upmarket feel. people are friendly but the Pacific Hwy is noisy and the Trains are noisy if you live nearby but there is not many trains going pass. It has its local small shops and a doctor, chemist etc. It is 7 minutes to Nerang Shopping Centre and Malls which Carrara does not have a Super Market. It has a Golf and Tennis club and its 25-30 minutes to the beach it can be 20 minutes but I include parking the car which can be hard in the City of Gold Coast. Its also close to Ashmore shops and industrial district, The Tradesman in the City of the Gold Coast have a touchy personality maybe because they are a bit wealthy and get lazy and want to constantly go to the beach and relax or go surfing or they are in stiff competition with other tradesmen or the work is not big enough and can refuse to get back to you with a quote or walk off the job but want payment for the part job they have done for you so I prefer to employ a local tradesman from Carrara who is a local and does not want to get a bad name.