Boundary Street Markets

About this audio guide

This guide to Boundary Street Markets in West End, Brisbane starts with a mismatch: the building the market fills on Russell Street was never the famous one. It traces the real landmark a few blocks over, a nineteen twenty-eight ice cream factory whose engineers solved the problem of keeping their product cold in a subtropical city decades before refrigerated trucks. You'll hear what became of that factory, and why the market itself had to find a new home nearby. Look up while you browse the stalls; the roof above you was built for a very different kind of cargo.