Queen Victoria Market
Sprawling nineteenth-century produce market built directly over Melbourne's first cemetery, its thousands of graves still underfoot.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Queen Victoria Market in Melbourne opens with the ground you're standing on: the city's first cemetery, opened in 1837 when Melbourne itself was barely two years old. It follows the market's slow creep across the burial ground through the 1870s and into 1920, when the government pushed a bill through parliament to clear the rest of the site for stalls, and historian Isaac Selby led a fight against it with his own survey of the graves. Think about that survey as you walk between the fruit stalls.
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