The Queen Victoria Market (also known locally as Vic Market or Queen Vic ) is a major landmark in Melbourne, Australia, and about seven hectares 17 acres) is the largest open air market in the southern hemisphere.
The Queen Victoria Market is the largest and most successful 19th century market still in town. The central business district of Melbourne once hosted three major markets, but two of them, the East Market and the Western Market, both opened before Queen Victoria, and both closed and destroyed in the 1960s. Other historic markets survive in Melbourne, such as the suburban Prahran Market and the South Melbourne Market, although only Prahran owns the initial building. The Queen Victoria Market is historically, architecturally and socially significant and has been listed on the Victorian Heritage Register. It has become an increasingly important tourist attraction in the city of Melbourne.
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History
Queen Victoria Market occupies two city blocks; a rectangular block bordered by Victoria, Peel, Franklin and Elizabeth Streets and an eastern irregular block bordered by Queen, Victoria, Elizabeth, and Therry Streets. The market was established in the late 1860s to serve both as a wholesale and retail market for Melbourne's rapidly expanding population. The Queen Victoria Market is centrally located in favor of a number of smaller markets located in different parts of the city. The site was developed gradually from 1867 to 1936 when the site was fully developed. Throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the market has undergone a small expansion and improvement. Proposals for a more substantial redevelopment continue to this day. The site, now occupied by the Queen Victoria Market complex, has a long and varied history, including graveyards, regular spaces, various rifles, long-lost roads, cattle markets, and wholesale fruit and vegetable markets.
Before Market
The West Market is the first official fruit and vegetable market in Melbourne, established only 6 years after the settlement began. In the end, the wholesale fruit market, it lasted for ninety years, took all blocks restricted by Markets, Collins and Williams Streets and Flinders Lane in the center of Melbourne's central business district.
The further development and expansion of Melbourne to the east led to the formation of the Eastern Market. Much more popular than the Western Market, the Eastern Market is very frequented by the general public. Its growth over time and public popularity led to the decline of the Western Market.
Much of the land where Pasar Atas and the parking lot sit was once part of the Old Melbourne Cemetery, the only official cemetery between 1837 and 1854 when it was officially closed. In this period, 7000 'early settlers' had died in Melbourne, and most were buried here, including explorer John Batman). The occasional burial continued until 1917, and by 1920 it was estimated that there were a total of 10,000 cemeteries on the site, although the exact number is unknown because the burial records were destroyed in a fire in 1864. Sheds D, E and F were built in the cemetery section, originally allocated as areas Jews, Aborigines and Quakers, where some funerals have taken place, and once the Jewish community is satisfied, their territory is clear. Between 1920 and 1922, 914 bodies were dug from the rest of the old abandoned sites, and were buried again in other graves around Melbourne, especially at the new Fawkner Cemetery which had a Pioneer section with 220 early cemeteries and several relocated tombstones. In the 1920s, KL and M Sheds were built on the part of the cemetery that had been cleared, and in 1930 the shops were built at the end of Franklin Street, so there was still something between 6000 and 9000 cemeteries remaining under this structure and the car park , and any work in that area that might disturb them is a sensitive issue.
Creating a Bottom Market
The Bottom Markets (Deli Hall, Meat & Fish Hall and H & I Sheds) were originally set aside in 1857 for fruit and vegetable markets due to excessive density and congestion in the East Market. But the location was contested because of its proximity to the Old Melbourne Cemetery. It is not popular with marketers who refuse to use the space. This resulted in space becoming a cattle and straw market (Meat Market Reserve) until 1867 when a large brick building (Meat Hall) was erected on the corner of Elizabeth and Victoria Street. Despite spending a short time as the Wholesale Meat Market, the building eventually became the Meat Market and Retail Fish and Slaughterhouses.
In its official year of establishment, the Market evolved into wholesale and retail fruit and vegetable trade that encouraged the development of G, H, I & amp; J Sheds. H & amp; I Sheds still standing in its original position, but Shed was moved to build a loading place for Meat Hall and J Shed which was then burned only to be replaced with a public plaza.
The Elizabeth Street shops were built in 1880 after the reorganization of Elizabeth Street which also enabled Meat & amp; Hall Fish façade will be built in 1884.
Top Market Creation
The upstream market - unlike the Under Market - was originally not booked as a market. The site has experienced a number of uses including schools and training rooms, but the most famous is the first funeral site in Melbourne. The construction of A-F Sheds began in 1877 at the end of Victoria Street Markets because this area contains the least used parts of the cemetery. By 1930, the entire Upper Market site (including K and L Sheds) had been built and extended up to Peel Street.
Between 1929 and 1930 the City of Melbourne built 60 brick stores, located at the current car park location, to accommodate wholesale agents and merchants. However this was short lived after allegations of corruption and extortion led to the Royal Commission (1960) which led to the decision to relocate the Wholesale Market to Footscray in 1969. All that remains today is one line from these stores along Franklin Street.
Protecting the Market
The 1964 City of Melbourne report recommends rebuilding this site as a 1,200 car park, which will be the largest in the city center.
The Wholesale Market Separation of the Retail Market led to plans to redevelop the Queen Victoria Market site into a complex of trade, office and hotel centers in the 1970s. However, public protests prevent this and result in the Market being classified by the National Trust. Site Market and its buildings are listed in the List of Historic Buildings. Queen Victoria Market survives today as the largest and most successful nineteenth-century market in Melbourne.
Short timeline
The following timeline is based on historic surveys conducted by architectural firms, specializing in inheritance and conservation:
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- 1868 The first market development begins
- 1869 The opening of Meat Hall, originally used as a wholesale market
- 1874 The meat hall starts operating as a retail market
- 1877 Sheds G, H, and I may be first pushed; presented as a fruit and vegetable market
- 1877-1878 The A-E warehouse has been completed
- 1878 Queen Victoria's Market was officially opened by Mayor, Cr. John Pigdon
- 1888-89 Shop built along Victoria Parade
- 1884 The store is built along Elizabeth Street
- 1884 and 1890 Main replacement of public façade from Market
- 1917-1923 The council obtains additional land and expands the market to the west and south; warehouse F, K and L warehouse built
- 1922 Sheds D, E, and F extended to Peel Street
- 1923 Sheds K and L warehouse built
- 1926 -28 The Milk Production Center and Therry Stations are built.
- 1930 The Franklin Street store is built
- 1936 Additionally a very simple M, N, and O warehouse is built, completing the entire development
- 1977 The A-F Warehouse, Queen Victoria Market, updated, costs $ 650,000
- 1978 A Shed on Therry Street is destroyed
- 1979 (25 March) First Sunday Market at Vic Queen.
- 1980-82 Meat Hall was extended, Therry Street Plaza and Northern Plaza were built.
- 1986 Sheds N and O Shed are destroyed and converted into car parking spaces
- 1988 Victoria Square shops opened
- 1998 First Night Market
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Today
Today, the Market is a major tourist destination in Melbourne, adding to its social and cultural significance. Many of the original market structures remain intact, bringing visitors to the streets of the nineteenth century and the labor market. The Meat Hall, built in 1869, is largely still intact and is the oldest building. The facade of Elizabeth Street remains largely intact in relation to the construction of 1884, while substantial north-west and southeast elevations are still intact in relation to their 1869 construction. The retail line on Elizabeth Street and Victoria, built between 1882 and 1891, is a significant building and significant architecture, giving visitors the opportunity to shop on the vast and intact 19th century highways.
The market is open every day of the week except Mondays and Wednesdays. On Wednesday evenings in the summer, the night markets offer dining, bars, live entertainment, and a variety of other kiosks. It offers both local and international visitors a variety of fruits and vegetables, meat, poultry and seafood, gourmet food and food stores as well as special delicacies. It also has a large market unrelated to food, selling a variety of clothing, shoes, jewelry and arts and crafts.
Development and rebuilding activities continue to this day. In 2003 the market was equipped with solar panels that harnessed enough energy to drive all market clients, and provided surpluses. In January 2010, Herald Sun reported that city planners wanted to turn the market into a "gourmet hub" by introducing upscale food stalls. Mayor Robert Doyle said that he put forward the idea after visiting Borough Market in London, which has a boutique "functioning" boutique in Melbourne. In May 2015, the City of Melbourne drew a 2015-2016 budget allocating $ 80.64 million for investment in Queen Victoria Market. On June 12, 2015 Lord Mayor Robert Doyle and Environment Minister Greg Hunt announced the beginning of the process to place the Market on the UNESCO world heritage site.
The Queen Victoria Market Twitter account is under the control of @VicMarket, and is used to promote frequent events there like the Melbourne BBQ Festival and Night Markets. The market is also known for hot donut vans that have been in operation for more than half a century and become part of a local tradition, known for its jam donuts.
References
External links
- Official site
- Queen Victoria Market Photo
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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