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Showing posts with label Queen Victoria. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Queen Victoria. Show all posts

Thursday, July 2, 2009

Crowning Glory

A Touch Of Royalty In Outback Australia

Photographs copyright: DAVID McMAHON


These shots were taken on 5 June this year, in the tiny Victorian town of Glenrowan. I had just pulled off the interstate Hume Highway, parked the car and was stretching my legs before looking for a hearty breakfast, when I spotted this window.

It's a colonial-era original - the crown signifying royalty and the letters VR signifying "Victoria Regina" which - if you know a bit of Latin, means "Victoria the Queen". Now that's going back more than a century, because Queen Victoria reigned from 1837-1901, if I remember my literature lectures clearly.

And, just for the record, here's a look at the old postbox near the sign.


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