- From
- 1940
Little Bourke Street, Melbourne, Victoria - To
- 1970
Queen Victoria Market, Melbourne, Victoria - Summary
Four of the Chinn brothers were involved in this business. In the 1940s, the Chinn brothers, like most of the Chinese fruit and vegetable wholesalers in Little Bourke Street, moved their premises to the Queen Victoria Market as part of a general process of centralizing all fruit and vegetable wholesaling on the Queen Victoria site.
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- Title
- Chinn brothers at Victoria Market, ca 1960s
- Type
- Photograph
- Date
- 1960s
- Place
- Australia - Victoria - Melbourne - Queen Victoria Market
- Details
Sources used to compile this entry: Cole, Colin E. (ed.), Melbourne markets, 1841-1979: the story of the fruit and vegetable markets in the City of Melbourne, Melbourne Wholesale Fruit and Vegetable Market Trust, [Footscray, Vic.], 1980; Couchman, Sophie, 'The banana trade: Its importance to Melbourne's Chinese and Little Bourke Street, 1880s-1930s', in P. Macgregor (ed.), Histories of the Chinese in Australasia and the South Pacific, Museum of Chinese Australian History, Melbourne, 1995, pp. 75-90; Museum of Chinese Australian History collection.
Created: 19 March 2003, Last modified: 19 July 2005
