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• At 2007.11.20 03:02, jafabrit said:

  Did you know that the statue is built over a plague pit? I wrote a blog entry on it a while back because I didn’t know that until last year when I spent a month back home.
  http://jafabrit.blogspot.com/2007/02/photograph-of-queen-victoria-monument.html

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• At 2007.11.20 04:14, Cassandra said:

  That is actually…. interesting… and very very gross… How did you find this out?

  I can’t wait for my flatmate to wake up in the morning so I can tell her about it!

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• At 2007.11.20 17:35, jafabrit said:

  I think there is a small plaque at the base of the statue that mentions it, or I read it when searching for info on the cathedral. There are about 300 bodies in there from the cholera epidemic in the 1600’s.
  It is mentioned on page three here:http://www.noe.com.au/uploaded/qa0807Newcastle.pdf

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