Swimming facilities for Yarraville residents are at the Yarraville Swim Centre, 3 Roberts Street West Footscray and at the Maribyrnong Aquatic Centre, Maribyrnong, located next to Highpoint Shopping Centre.

The Route 82 tram provides public transport from Moonee Ponds ( Ascot Vale Road & Puckle Street ) to Footscray ( Leeds & Irving Streets ).

Starting in the north and going clockwise we have the Upfield Rail Trail, Merri Creek Trail, Yarra River Trail, Gardiners Creek Trail, Sandridge Trail, Maribyrnong River Trail & Hobsons Bay Coastal Trail ( via the Footscray Road path at Docklands ) and finally the Moonee Ponds Creek Trail.

* Footscray Best & Fairest 1960, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1966

In 2001 he was named team captain, and was selected as a member of the Footscray & Western Bulldogs ' Team of the Century ' in 2002.

Started in 1909, the 1st Footscray Scout hall is a historic building next to the Footscray Police Station in Hyde Street.

They include community groups, secondary schools, and local government authorities including the Footscray Community Arts Centre, the Western English Language School and the Maribyrnong City Council.

Leunig, a fifth generation Australian, was born in East Melbourne, Victoria, grew up in the Melbourne suburb of Footscray and went to Maribyrnong High School before entering an arts degree at Monash University.

The Maribyrnong River Trail shared path starts at Brimbank Park, following mostly beside the river to near its conjunction with the Yarra River in Footscray.

Footscray is part of the City of Maribyrnong and was built largely on the traditional lands of the Kulin nation.

In the 21st Century, Maribyrnong of which Footscray is a part, saw a major increase in residents from Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Burma, including a large proportion of refugees.

Footscray falls within the federal electorate of Gellibrand ( currently held by the ALP's Nicola Roxon ) and the state electorate of Footscray ( currently held by the ALP's Marsha Thomson ), and the City of Maribyrnong at local level.

Maribyrnong Truck Action Group and Less Trucks For Moore work towards cleaning the air in Footscray and surrounding suburbs.

Located on the bank of the Maribyrnong River, Footscray Community Arts Centre ( FCAC ) is a centre for contemporary arts, community engagement, cultural development and multicultural arts.

* As part of the Footscray City Edge master plan, Maribyrnong Council plan to turn the Paisley Street carpark into a park.

* Footscray Canoe Club, located at 40 Farnsworth Ave ( corner of Maribyrnong Boulevard ).

* The Footscray Edgewater Cricket Club ( formally Footscray Cricket Club ) was founded in 1883 and for the first 113 years of its existence was also located at the Western Oval ( now Whitten Oval ) until 1996 when combined pressure exerted by the Footscray Football Club and state-government-appointed commissioners to the City of Maribyrnong saw the club relocated to the Mervyn G. Hughes Oval.

* The Footscray Cycling Club promotes road racing and criterium racing, whilst cyclists are represented by the MazzaBUG, the Maribyrnong Bicycle User Group.

The team was known as the Westside Vikings until 1997, and plays its home games at the Henry Turner Memorial Reserve on Farnsworth Avenue right next door to the iconic Flemington Racecourse, within the Footscray Park area, Maribyrnong River and Victoria University.

* Flemington Racecourse, the home of the Melbourne Cup, is across the Maribyrnong River to the northeast in the neighbouring suburb of Flemington, immediately opposite Footscray Park, the second largest botanical garden in Victoria.

* Footscray City Rowing Club-This club is over 100 years old and meets at the Footscray Boat Club, Maribyrnong Boulevard.

The headquarters of Lonely Planet Publications are located in eastern Footscray on the banks of the Maribyrnong River

Maidstone is a suburb of the City of Maribyrnong, located 8 km from the Melbourne CBD, bordered by West Footscray to the south on Suffolk Street, Braybrook to the west on Ashley St, Footscray to the east along Summerhill and Rosamond Roads and Maribyrnong to the north and north-east along Williamson Road and Rosamond Road.

Footscray Park opposite the Flemington Racecourse is only metres down river from Pipemakers Park and Burndap Park, the river then meanders across the floodplain to its juncture with the Yarra River at Yarraville.

Footscray is named after the Foots village, on the River Cray in Kent, England, United Kingdom ( UK ).

The Maribyrnong River Trail connects cyclists to the Footscray Road off-road path and into Docklands and the Melbourne CBD.

The Melbourne and Murray River Railway ( now the Bendigo line ) opened in 1859 running from Footscray and terminating in Sunbury ; by the early 1860s the line had been extended all the way to the goldfields of Bendigo.

The railway between Footscray and Melbourne, via the new station at North Melbourne, had been made possible with the construction of a railway bridge over the Maribyrnong River.

By December 2008 the State Government announced it was planning for such a link, anticipated to be a three kilometre road tunnel under Footscray and the Maribyrnong River.

More country lines followed in 1859 when Victorian Railways opened a line from the Williamstown line at Footscray, to Sunbury, taking over from the Melbourne, Mount Alexander and Murray River Railway Company that was established in 1853 to build a railway to Echuca, but failed to make any progress.

It commences in Melbourne Docklands on Footscray Road near where the creek enters the Yarra River.

At Footscray, where Footscray Road crosses the Maribyrnong River over Shepherd Bridge, the trail splits in two.

West Melbourne is bounded by Victoria Street and the Sydenham / Werribee railway lines in the north, Footscray Road, the Moonee Ponds Creek and the Yarra River in the south.

For the adventurous, the Maribyrnong River Trail starts at the park and follows the tree lined river 25 km to Footscray.

Other former quarries within the City of Footscray that were turned into public gardens in this era include the Yarraville Reserve, which is the site of the current Yarraville Oval, off Williamstown Road ; the Yarraville Gardens, off Hyde Street ; and Footscray Park, which fronts the Maribyrnong River.

* Footscray Park in the western suburb of Maribyrnong opposite the Flemington Racecourse on the Maribyrnong River.

There was worse to follow, with various Essendon players publicly blaming each other for the poor performance against Richmond, and then, with dissension still rife in the ranks, the side plummeted to an embarrassing 28 point loss to VFA premiers Footscray Football Club in a special charity match played a week later in front of 46, 100 people, in aid of Dame Nellie Melba's Disabled Soldiers ' Fund, purportedly ( but not officially ) for the championship of Victoria.

Harvey was recruited from St Kilda's then VCFL zone, from Seaford and played his first senior game for St Kilda on 6 August 1988 against Footscray at the Western Oval in Round 19 of the 1988 VFL season.

She attended Whalley Range Grammar School for Girls ( now Whalley Range High School ) on Wilbraham Road in Whalley Range, Manchester, then the Footscray High School in Melbourne, Australia.

The line is quadrupled to South Kensington railway station, then is double track for the rest of the line, although from South Kensington to Footscray, it runs alongside the Werribee line, effectively extending the quadruple track to there.

St Kilda was Melbourne's busiest suburban station with 4½ million journeys, followed by Footscray with almost 4 million, then Elsternwick, Ascot Vale, Essendon and Balaclava.

John Schultz ( born 28 September 1938 ) is a former Australian rules football player, who played for the Footscray Football Club in the ( then ) Victorian Football League ( VFL ) and is one of the club's greatest players.