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SUMMARY:Exhibition launch: The Burying of Melbourne
DESCRIPTION:Robert Pascoe\,\nDean Laureate and Professor Emeritus Victoria University\nPresident of the Royal Historical Society of Victoria\,\ntogether with RHSV Councillors\ninvites you to the launch of our exhibition\nThe Burying of Melbourne\ncurated by Dr David Thompson\ndesigned by Susan Fitzgerald\n \nto be launched by Steven Avery\,\nExecutive Director\, Heritage Victoria\nat 5:30pm on Thursday 4 September\, 2025\nRHSV Gallery\, 239 A’Beckett St\, Melbourne 3000\noffice@historyvictoria.org.au | 03 9326 9288\n  \n\n  \nIn the mid-1850s some areas of the Melbourne CBD were buried under a layer of clay at the direction of Melbourne City Council\, a rather extraordinary event that until recently had been largely forgotten. It is only in recent years that archaeologists carrying out the excavations required prior to developments in the city have uncovered evidence of the clay layer. \nA study commissioned by the Heritage Council of Victoria found that the burying was part of efforts by the City Council to control flooding\, caused largely by the original laying out of Melbourne’s street grid without due consideration of the flow of water over the underlying topography. \nThe depositing of the clay layer\, metres thick in some places\, had a significant effect on the lives and circumstances of those affected but did result in the sealing off of a layer of archaeology stemming from the earliest days of European settlement. \nThis exhibition\, The Burying of Melbourne\, describes events leading up to the burial and looks at some of the archaeology discovered beneath the clay.
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/exhibition-launch-the-burying-of-melbourne/
LOCATION:RHSV Gallery Downstairs\, 239 A'Beckett St\, Melbourne\, Victoria\, 3000\, Australia
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