Between 1843 and 1851, the Scottish settler, Thomas Napier (1802–1881) purchased the Keilor Road land covering Niddrie and Airport West.

[4] It is also a matter of record that in 1956 the Melbourne Olympic cauldron was built in work shops behind what later became the Ferguson Plarre site in Keilor Road.

The main shopping centre is located on Keilor Road, which has a number of cafes and restaurants serving surrounding suburbs.

The Niddrie Quarry was established in the 1940s to extract basalt for road paving from the vast lava plain that stretches from Melbourne to Mount Gambier.

The site was eventually purchased by the Urban Land Corporation in November 2000 for development of new housing estates with the retention of the quarry as a lake.