Quirky Broken Hill

This site lays claim to the only hostilities on Australian soil during WWI.  When on New Year’s Day 1915, a picnic train was fired upon by Turkish sympathisers.  Six people were killed including the attackers.

Broken Hill had no actual connection to the Titanic

 

A Rolls Royce owned by the painter and Broken Hill resident, Pro Hart
The Big Bench, ‘Line of Lode’ historical site
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