Hidden beneath the Royal Exhibition Building's car park was a 19th-century garden that has now been restored.WOMEN IN LONG DRESSES stroll past low shrubs and rose bushes, while children run and play, tumbling over the green lawn. It is 1880 and Melbourne is unveiling its crowning glory - the Royal Exhibition Building, venue for the Melbourne International Exhibition. Unfortunately, the beautiful western forecourt garden, the hard work of architect Joseph Reid and landscape gardener William Sangster, was bulldozed in 1956 to make way for a 7200sq.m car park. Buried under tonnes of asphalt for more than half a century, it has been brought back to life through the hard work of a team of archaeologists, landscape architects, historians, La Trobe University students and Museum Victoria employees.
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