Cathedral Arcade
Leadlight-glass arcade from the nineteen-twenties, its stained dome crowning the elbow of an L-shaped shopping lane.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Cathedral Arcade in Melbourne opens in 1931, when a policeman is shot outside the back door and three armed men flee through the arcade with the day's takings from the Coles store next door. It follows the men's trial and an unexpected retrial, then steps back to 1926 to explain who paid for the leadlight dome overhead and why, a fortune built on a wartime medicine. Stand at the elbow of the arcade to look up as you listen.
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