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How can that be looking East? Where's Hyde Park?

The building on the right still stands on the corner of King Street and the Pitt Street Mall. Looking up the hill to the east is the spire of St James Church. The steam tram was heading up the hill to turn right into Queens Square on its way to Rose Bay. "The fatal card" is on the marquee of the Theatre Royal left.

Cate Cahill The northern end of Hyde park is at Queens Square, which is at the east end of King St. You would not see the park from King St.

Yeah, you can see St James and then, beyond that, the Hyde Park Barracks

that photo isnt from 1892. St james spire had a broach added in 1894-95, which is evident in that photo. maybe late 1890s?

Post 1933 ? - see R class tram, having a corridor style instead of toastrack - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams_in_Sydney#Rolling_stock

I wonder if the photo was taken from the top of the David Jones Elizabeth Street store (opened 1927) ?

RE: DJ's Elizabeth street store, look like a likely scenario, unless they used some kind of crane for this shot.

definately taken from roof of Djs.which is 48m(160ft) above grd.

What is the fancy old building on the corner of Macquarie St where the court is now ?

It was the unveiling of the new statue of Queen Victoria as part of the Centenary celebrations on Tuesday 24 January 1888. Read all about it - SMH 26/1/1888 p.5 - trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/page/1391390 Henry King was also there, somewhere on the right with a black cloth over his head ...

beachcomber australia I'm thinking that one was a bit easy, huh :) It's a great photo, all that bustle and movement has been captured, it must have been an exciting day.. Thanks for the info - we'll update the caption. AB

Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection Never too easy - just that I have been there before with the Henry King photo. I remember three years ago having huge problems trying to find what the occasion was (when Trove was young).