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 The Queen Victoria Market originated in 1850s and it started as only two fruit and vegetable stalls. Six years later they built a butchery plaza which contained three meat stalls which two of them housed there own butchers. The Queen Victoria market was built over Melbourne’s first official cemetery. 

 The selling of edible’s while you stand above some poor mans corpse caused great controversy. The council approved the removal of the bodies in 1917 and the bodies were moved to the new Melbourne general cemetery.

Over 10 million shoppers visit the Queen Victoria Market each year so the Queen Victoria Market is a big Australian landmark and played a big role in Melbourne’s society. The market is named after Queen Victoria who ruled the British Empire from 1837 to 1901, although starting at a small market the Queen Victoria has worked its way up to being Melbourne’s most popular market and one of a great history.

In 1963 stallholder Vincent Anguilotto was shot this was the first of the five shootings in Queen Victoria markets, the shootings we said to be executed by the "honoured society" some of those members entered Australia via an illegal immigration racket and were using extortion to cheat immigrant Italian growers out of there hard earned dollars. This made the council decide that stall owners should register their stall with a fee of a small amount to prevent extortion from local gangs.

If you go to the Queen Victoria Market you will see at the front of he market is the food court and then I goes back into stock and poultry and after that comes the clothes and cloth and hand bags and items like that and then there is the toy goods like the laser pointer and dolls and puppets .ect.


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