South Melbourne Market
Victorian-era covered food market of wood and red brick, trading on the same ground since eighteen sixty-seven.
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This guide to South Melbourne Market opens in 1981, when bombs and a fire tear through the stalls in the same year, and asks how a market already a century old responds. It reaches back to 1866, when the council opened this ground as a three-month trial nobody expected to succeed, and traces the traders who kept coming back through floods and depressions since. A later thread follows the market institution that still draws the longest queue today.
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