Prahran Market
Historic 1864 produce market with a Victorian-era Commercial Road facade and bustling butchers, bakers and fishmongers.
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This guide to Prahran Market in Melbourne opens on Boxing Day, 1950, when fire tears through the produce hall overnight and leaves it a smoking ruin. It follows the market's slow, underfunded limbo in a temporary shed for a quarter century, and one butcher, Bill Bracher, who worked the same counter through the fire, the shed and the long wait for a proper rebuild. The market has traded on this ground since 1864, Australia's oldest continuously running food market.
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