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Her Majesty's Theatre Fire, 1902

Her Majesty's Theatre Fire, 1902

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[a2264002 / DL PXX 73/12-14]

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State Library of New South Wales

Her Majesty's Theatre

There have been three Her Majesty's Theatres in Sydney, spanning nearly a century of the city's theatrical history.

Theatre

Fire

Public building

Accidents and disasters

Her Majesty's Theatre Pitt Street

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Largest and best-equipped theatre in Sydney when it opened in 1887, Her Majesty's was rebuilt after a fire destroyed the theatre in 1902. Closed as a theatre in the 1930s, the building survived until the redevelopment of the site for Centrepoint in the 1970s.