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Statue of Queen Victoria at Queens Square c1975

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Statue of Queen Victoria at Queens Square c1975

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Sculpture

David Jones store Elizabeth Street

Retail department store near St James station.

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St James railway station

City Circle line station on the edge of Hyde Park, which was a terminal station for 30 years until the completion of the City Circle with the opening of Circular Quay station in 1956. The station was first planned by JJC Bradfield in his 1915 plan for an electric underground railway loop in the city, but construction was delayed by World War I. Only two of its four tunnels have been used.

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Queens Square

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Public square at the junction of Macquarie and King streets containing a statue of Queen Victoria.

Statue of Queen Victoria, Queens Square

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Statue commissioned in London and installed in Queens Square in 1888 and seen as an idealised representation of the Queen later in life.