Royal Arcade
Nineteenth-century glass-roofed shopping arcade guarded by carved giant figures that strike an hourly clock chime.
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This guide to Royal Arcade in Melbourne starts with Gog and Magog, the two giants that have swung their arms above the arcade for over a century, and the legend of Trojan conquest they're borrowed from. It follows Mortimer Godfrey, the carpenter who carved them from pine in his Lonsdale Street workshop in 1892, and the clock mechanism named for a watchmaker who never lived to hear it strike. Look up as you pass beneath them, where the wired arms still move on the hour.
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