Original post 23 March 2017:

Love the completely worn and scratched big ole #timberposts of the original 1878 sheds of the #QueenVictoriaMarket. If these are all dismantled, a basement dug, and put back again, as proposed, I hope they look exactly the same. BTW the market is such a simple open structure because it was meant to be temporary while the old open sheds of #EasternMarket in Bourke Street were rebuilt in a far grander style – it was grand, but traders preferred the more open spaces here at the city’s edge, also closer to residential populations, and the Bourke Street market had more actual shops, which were popular for things like pets and flowers and even entertainments of a sort like fortune tellers, so the fresh fruit and veg never went back.

QueenVictoriaMarket showing the back of the 1878 southern boundary wall when the open sheds of the market were first built. I’d heard this was line between the #oldMelbourneCemetery (where I’m standing !) and not, but actually the other side was cemetery too, the Jewish, Aboriginal and Quaker parts, though not that many burials there, or maybe lots, nobody knows cos the records lost in a fire in 1864. And I’m standing on the Wesleyan and Independent sections looking towards the Catholic. Im under J Shed, built 1993 covering the are between the wall and K Shed.

And here’s what’s just beyond ;

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