Broken Hill / Silverton

Today started with a visit to the miners memorial and cafe.

The miners memorial sits overlooking the town and was dedicated in 2001.

The memorial was dedicated in 2001

The memorial lists the 800 names of miners who have died since mining started in Broken Hill in 

  

1883.  

The mines in Broken Hill mainly provided Silver and ore and Broken Hill was the birthplace of BHP.

After the pretty cold visit to the memorial we headed to the Bells milk bar. Bells milk bar is the oldest continuous running milk bar in Australia.

The owners still produce and use the original recipe’s used when the cafe was first opened.  The cafe also has a museum with memorabilia from the 50’s and 60’s.  I had a cherry ripe milkshake it’s was really good.

After the milk bar we headed to the silver city mint and art centre to see the largest acrylic painting in the world. There was no photography allowed so I can’t share that with you.

We headed out to Silverton , this was not our first visit to this little town.  But I enjoyed revisiting it. Silverton has been the setting for several Australian movies and TV series  including a town like Alice, Mad Max 2 , mission impossible, Priscilla queen of the desert and the TVseries flying doctors just to name a few.

We headed out to Mundi Mundi lookout to see the Mundi Mundi plains which stretched as far as the eye can see 

and then enjoyed

Lunch at the Silverton Hotel and then 

sadly did the boring compulsory grocery shop

À bientôt

Googy girl