* Diggers Rest ( Shared with the Shire of Melton )

* Diggers Rest

** Koora Koora Cup ( Sunbury ) Venturer Unit ( 1st Sunbury Unit but incorporating 3rd Sunbury as well as 1st Diggers Rest )

Diggers Rest ( formerly Diggers ' Rest ) is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 33 km north-west from Melbourne's Central Business District.

At the 2011 Census Diggers Rest had a population of 2, 275.

Diggers Rest lies on the Old Calder Highway, near the Calder Freeway.

Diggers Rest began life as a stopping place on the road to the Bendigo goldfields and the Post Office opened on 18 June 1860.

To the north of Diggers Rest township within the locality is the former township known as The Gap or Buttlejorrk.

The four Sunbury Pop Festivals were held on on the same 620-acre ( 2. 5 km < sup > 2 </ sup >) private farm along Jacksons Creek, on the southern outskirts of Sunbury, between Sunbury and Diggers Rest.

Also because of its close proximity ( 2 km ) to the smaller township of Diggers Rest, many of the attendees who traveled to Sunbury by train, actually alighted at Diggers Rest Railway station, and not Sunbury.

Diggers Rest contains a general store, a primary school and a CFA fire station, along with three large recreation reserves.

Sporting groups in Diggers Rest include Diggers Rest Football Club who play in the Riddell District Football League.

Diggers Rest Primary School was first opened in 1882 and moved to its present site in 1990.

Diggers Rest Primary School features excellent facilities including air conditioned and heated classrooms, computer and Internet access to all grades, modern sports and playground equipment and landscaped grounds.

Diggers Rest Primary School is an integral part of the wider community and hosts annual events such as the Community Carols, Billy Cart Derby and Grandparents ’ Day.

Other facilities in the Diggers Rest area include the Holden Flora and Fauna Reserve, Animal Land Children's Farm and SPSK Jadran, a Slovenian social club which services nearby St Albans and Keilor.

Diggers Rest has a railway station on the Sunbury line, connecting the town with Melbourne's CBD.

Diggers Rest is a railway station in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, located in the suburb of Diggers Rest, on the Melbourne-Bendigo railway line.

Diggers Rest is located at the southern end of the Old Calder Highway level crossing, which provides station access.

Diggers Rest station opened on 2 October 1859 with the line, being the terminus until the line was extended to Woodend in 1861.

The goddess is described as wearing oak in fragments of Sophocles ' lost play The Root Diggers ( or The Root Cutters ), and an ancient commentary on Apollonius of Rhodes ' Argonautica ( 3. 1214 ) describes her as having a head surrounded by serpents, twining through branches of oak.

It is traditionally played on Anzac Day in pubs and clubs throughout Australia, in part to mark a shared experience with Diggers through the ages.

This is another important document in the history of British constitutionalism, though different from the others listed here because the Diggers ' declaration comes from the people instead of from the state.

The central character throughout Truckers and Wings is Masklin, in Diggers it is mainly Grimma.

( This is the story of Diggers, which happens simultaneously with Wings.

His recent death is mentioned early on in Diggers.

* A Vindication of Those Whose Endeavors is Only to Make the Earth a Common Treasury, Called Diggers ( March 4, 1650 ), Gerrard Winstanley

The numbers he choreographed were mostly upbeat and focused on decoration as opposed to substance ; one exception to this is the number “ Remember My Forgotten Man ” from Gold Diggers of 1933, which dealt with the treatment of soldiers in a post-World War I Depression.

The quest to understand the Angels ( giant bats ) and the Diggers ( giant rats ) that were foreshadowed in the dreams is not an easy one.

This project is due to be complete in 2012 and will connect Diggers Rest to metropolitan services rather than the less frequent regional services.

Lightning Ridge is a flourishing tourist town with numerous caravan ( camper-trailer ) and camping parks, the previously very rustic Diggers ' Rest pub ( which has burned down for the third time ) and a well-appointed bowling club with its eight artificial-grass bowling greens.

Helms is linked in San Francisco lore with Graham, the Diggers ( theater ), Emmett Grogan, Ken Kesey, Jack Kerouac, Gary Snyder, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Michael McClure, Neal Cassady, Kenneth Rexroth, Ralph J. Gleason, and others.

Gold Diggers of ' 49 is a 1935 Warner Bros. theatrical cartoon short in the Looney Tunes series.

With regard to pay and conditions, the IfA has set up the Diggers ' Forum ( a special interest group specifically formed to represent the interests of diggers ); produced recommended minima for pay and other benefits ( which are to be binding upon organisations registered with the IfA ); played a large part in the production of Occupational Standards for archaeology and is continuing to work with the union, Prospect to benchmark salary levels against other industries ( realistically a pre-requisite to any form of industry-wide pay bargaining framework ).

The source of the song which begins the cartoon is a Busby Berkeley movie called Gold Diggers of 1933.

Color would quickly come to be associated with the musical genre, and numerous features were released in 1929 and 1930 that either featured color sequences or were filmed entirely in color, movies like On With the Show ( 1929 ), Gold Diggers of Broadway ( 1929 ), Sally ( 1929 ), The Life of the Party ( 1930 ), and others.

Barton, Jon Coulton ( in the behalf of others called the Diggers ), Robert Cosler, John Plamer, Jacob Heard ( in The Clarke Papers volume 2, )

* The Diggers Song ( circa 1649, 1650 ) ( in The Clarke Papers volume 2, ), attributed to Gerrard Winstanley by the historian C. H. Firth, the editor of The Clarke Papers.

* A JCB ( not talking ) named Jekub appears in volume 2 ( Diggers ) of The Bromeliad ( alias Nomes ) series by Terry Pratchett.

Following a court case, in which the Diggers were forbidden to speak in their own defence, they were found guilty of being Ranters, a radical sect associated with liberal sexuality ( though in fact Winstanley had reprimanded Ranter Laurence Clarkson for his sexual practices ).

Whereas Coke, John Pym, Lucy Hutchinson and Sir Henry Vane saw Magna Carta rights as being primarily those of the propertied classes, during the prolonged 17th-century constitutional crisis in England and Scotland, the arguments were also taken up in a more radical way by the likes of Francis Trigge, John Hare, John Lilburne, John Warr and Gerrard Winstanley of the radical Diggers even calling for an end to primogeniture and for the cultivation of the soil in common.

However, while the Anzacs would happily refer to themselves as " Diggers ", British soldiers generally resented being called " Tommy ".

In 1965, The Diggers, a community-action group dedicated to the concept of everything being free of charge, established soup kitchens and free health-care facilities in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco.

Diggerland also have a Stunt Team-The Dancing Diggers, which operates every other year and offers a fantastic display of large diggers being pushed to their limits in amazing stunts.

There are nine Grave Diggers being driven by different drivers to allow them to make appearances at more events, but their flagship driver is creator Dennis Anderson.