The Eastern Market (also known as Paddy’s Market) was one of the three markets established in central business district of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia in the 1840s and located on the south west corner of Bourke and Exhibition Streets. It operated from 1847 until the demolition of its buildings in 1960.
The Eastern Market did very well upto the late 1880's / mid 1890's but there was a shift to the Queen Victoria Market by stall holders and visitors while the Eastern Market was being renovated and they didn't return.
In the 1890s there was little positive news. A fire in the electrical wiring, another fire at the 'Federal Hat Company', an accidental shooting, a suicide, a workman falling 60 feet to the ground through a skylight and, finally, in April 1899, a multiple murder.
The Eastern Market's final decades had a 'sideshow oddities' with 'fortune tellers, test-your-strength machines, electric-shock therapists, tattoo artists, taxidermists and bric-a-brac dealers were among the last ghosts to desert it in the 20th century'.
The building was demolished in 1960 and the Southern Cross Hotel was built on the site.
The Southern Cross Hotel was then demolished in 2003 and today at the former Eastern Market site is the Bourke Street Australia Post Office building and various other government and private office shops in the immediate area and a food court alley.
Credits and References:
State Library - Victoria www.slv.vic.go...
Photographers and contributors;
Melbourne: M.L. Hutchinson, Glasgow Book Warehouse
Val Morgan & Sons.
Bone, Frank S.
Mundell Pty. Ltd.
Melbourne: Ebenezer and David Syme
Pratt, Charles Daniel (1892 - 1968)
Knights, Bert (1899 - 1999) part-time photographer
Paterson Brothers
Walker, C. B. (Charles Bristow) (1835 - 1901)
Lindt, J. W. (John William) (1845 - 1926)
Williams, Clifford
Nettleton, Charles (1826 - 1902)
Philp, James Buckingham, (1830 - ___) lithographer
Melbourne: David Syme and Co.
Alfred May and Alfred Martin Ebsworth
Freedman, Harold (1915 - 1999) artist
Rose Stereograph Co.
Wikipedia - en.wikipedia.o...
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