Queen Victoria Market - theshadow was right
Published 1 year, 2 months ago in Shopping.I’ve just found this on the queen victoria market website, after reading a comment about the market being built on an old cemetery that theshadow mentioned in another topic. Thanks for sparking my interest.
The Upper Market
The Upper Market (bounded by Queen, Victoria, Peel and Franklin Streets) was not originally reserved as a market but had a number of other uses including a school and drill hall. Its predominant use, however, was as Melbourne’s first cemetery. Construction of A-F sheds began in 1877 at the northern-most edge of the Market. This site was chosen because it contained the school, drill hall and the least-used section of the cemetery.
By 1930, the remainder of the site had been built upon. Between 1903 and 1905 A-C Sheds were extended to Peel Street, while D-F Sheds were not extended until 1922. That same year, the Queen Street and Peel Street verandahs were also constructed. The roofing of the centreway occurred in 1927. In 1929-1930 the large K and L Sheds were constructed for growers.
In 1929-30, the City of Melbourne constructed 60 brick stores on the current car park to house the wholesale agents and merchants. However, allegations of corruption and racketeering and a Royal Commission in 1960 led to the decision to relocate the Wholesale Market to Footscray in 1969. A single row of the Agents stores along Franklin Street is all that remains of the Merchants section of the Market.
http://www.qvm.com.au/home.php
http://www.qvm.com.au/history.php
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Great that hisory is alive and well
The following is an extract from
The Advertiser Adelaide 17 August 1945
World Rejoices At Victory
CEASE FIRE ORDER BY HIROHITO
DELAY LIKELY BEFORE FIGHTING ENDS
MACARTHUR TO COMMAND IN JAPAN
CHEERIO
SHADOWMASTER
Always thought that place was a little creepy. That’s not a bad thing, I like creepy - but the old cemetery thing explains alot, to me at least, about the market’s underlying vibe.
Oh, by the way sky, you now have a couplet of your own.
Lol! Thanks fossil! I’ve only been to the market a couple of times, I keep telling myself I would like to go again, but then I think of how busy it gets there and how I hate crowds. I have no problems with Creepyness - I’ve walked through the Lilydale Cemetery at night by myself, and have always wanted to go on one of those night tours that they have occassionally.
theshadow - I Loved researching History while in High School, but only a couple of other students agreed and The Year 11 VCE - History class was cancelled because not enough students were interested. Before Year 11, there was no dedicated History class. I have barely any knowledge about the Wars or MACARTHUR, only what I’ve learnt from M*A*S*H and that’s not saying much is it? Lol!
interesting, I don’t think we appreciate that our city has so much history some times.
Not sure if I lost the last attempt, but I’ll try again….What I was saying is that it is very good to learn that our forefathers had the sense to utilised valuable land for the living eventually.
The same needs to happen now for the ancient section of the Melbourne Cemetery which would save the housing spread into the countryside…No one can even tell from the derelict overgrown headstones of 150 years ago. I’m sure the dead don’t mind!
I hope my attitude doesn’t appear too callous for poltergeists to handle!
not sure if I can quite understand your logic Mary, I do hate the idea of our country side being taken over by all these new developments but if we do build over cemetery’s, it’s like those people never existed. They are part of our heritage our history. As it states in the main post, this was Melbourne’s first Cemetery, those who were buried there helped create melbourne.
No Mary, no, no, no.
Gotta agree with Foss Mary. I suspect(and i have been very wrong about guessing ages) that you are not a baby boomer. We tend to hang on to our history with more gusto than the younger generations.
Do you also think ANZAC day should be abolished. I am not looking for an arguement, just curious if your sense of history goes along different lines.
cheerio
shadowmaster