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Article: Fed: much-loved Old Parliament House turns 75
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- AAP General News (Australia)
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- May 9, 2002
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Fed: much-loved Old Parliament House turns 75
By Denis Peters
CANBERRA, May 9 AAP - Seventy-five years ago today, the cream of
British Empire royalty
came by coach in Canberra to open a big white building surrounded
by sheep paddocks.
The thousands of schoolchildren who lined up to welcome the Duke
and Duchess of York,
in Australia to officially open Parliament House in 1927, were more
used to galahs than
gala occasions.
Among them was 10-year-old Canberra resident Mary Burroughs.
"I do recall (the Duke and Duchess) arriving in the coach and walking
up the stairs
to Parliament House," Mrs Burroughs, now 86, told AAP at today's 75th ...