Melbourne, AU IV (9/11/2025)

Thursday, September 11, 2025
This morning we took free fare zone trams on Flinders Street to Elizabeth Street, then north on Elizabeth Street.

Queen Victoria Market (est 1860, built 1878)

We started in the Meat & Fish Hall

Whole fish

Several kinds of oysters

In the Queen's Food Hall, we had breakfast from Rubens

Rubens Big Breakfast Sandwich

Fruit & Vegetable Sheds

Tomatoes, Brussel sprouts, snap peas, string beans

Passionfruit

Two types of navel oranges. regular and Dolci,
which was discovered in 2009 in New South Wales

Chicken and quail eggs

Okinawan sweet potatoes, bitter melons, Thai eggplants

The sheds are pretty large

Passage (1994, by Mark Stoner)
commemorates the Old Melbourne General
Cemetery, the former site of the current
market that took over three-quarters of the
Jewish allotment, and all of the Society of
Friends and Aboriginal allotments

Wind Contrivance (1995, by Pauline Fraser)
includes fish, vegetables, and an
Aboriginal fishing basket

Dairy Produce Hall seemed to contains delis

Ambiance Gifts Christmas Shop

It looks like a piece of the State Library
of Victoria: Architectural Fragment 
(1992, by Petrus Swink) (KSS)

State Library of Victoria (1854-1856, by Joseph Reed)

Statue (1887, by James Gilbert) of
Sir Redmond Barry, a judge and founder
of the State Library of Victoria

Toddlers are playing with the chess pieces

Saint George and the Dragon (1885,
by Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm)

Jeanne d'Arc (replica 1907, 
by Emmanuel Frémiet)

The Bunyip (1994, by Ron Brooks) from
the book The Bunyip of Berkeley's Creek
(1978, by Jenny Wagner) (KSS)

La Trobe Reading Room (1913,
by Norman G Peebles)

La Trobe Reading Room center display

War (1922, by Harold Septimus Power as the
Mural War Memorial at the entrance to Queen's Hall

Art nouveau stained glass window
(1910, by Norman Peebles) of the motto
of the State Library: Delectant domi non
impediunt foris peregrinantur/a delight
at home, and no hindrance abroad

Ian Potter Queen's Hall was the first
reading room of the State Library of Victoria 

Once upon a time it had a chandelier

In the Redmond Barry Reading Room,
we found artifacts of Ned Kelly, the
most infamous bushranger (outlaw living
in the bush) in Victoria; leading a gang
while on the run from police, they robbed
banks, took hostages, chopped down telegraph
poles and destroyed part of a railway line

Ned Kelly wore the armour in his final confrontation with the police in 1880. Under his armour he wore a green silk sash he received as a child for saving a boy from drowning. There is also a Snider-Enfield 0.577 caibre long rifle and a right boot that belonged to Kelly. 

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