Before becoming a residential suburb in the 1900s, the area was used for chicken farming, cattle farming, and coal mining.

The village developed into a significant industrial and residential suburb in the late nineteenth century, due primarily to its engineering works and west city tramway terminus.

It developed as a residential suburb starting in 1947 when the first sizable housing tracts were constructed and its population boomed in the 1970s and 1980s.

Including varying styles such as, modern, old town, residential suburbs, a local harbour and an airport.

Trams, automobiles and town planning encouraged the separate development of industrial suburbs and residential suburbs, with laborers commuting between them.