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| 25 klms from Broken Hill; close to the Sth. Australian border |
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| 1886 |
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| made famous with the wedding of Bryan Brown and Helen Morse in A Town Like Alice |
Sharing with Our World Tuesday
05 June 2012
Outback Silverton, St Carthage Catholic Church
Not a lot left around this church nowadays; only about fifty people reside in Silverton and they mainly cater for tourism. When the lode took up in Broken Hill, people living in Silverton picked up their homes and re-built them for the mining opportunities there.
what a neat place! LOVE the ruggedness of the territory! and that first shot is stellar!
ReplyDeleteCool pics.
ReplyDeleteQuite a special little church sitting out there all alone. It's beautiful.
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful place! I love all the shots but the first one caught my eye.
ReplyDeleteso Mitten drin in der Weite so ein schönes Plätzchen!
ReplyDeleteLieben Gruss Elke
Oh my Carole! What a wonderful find. The old church in that rugged countryside is just fantastic.
ReplyDeleteWow! Neat place! It appears to sit right in the middle of nowhere, just waiting for people to arrive. Aren't places like that just a wonder?!
ReplyDeleteAs always, so glad you made the journey. Can't imagine I'd see this otherwise!
What a wonderful place.
ReplyDeleteLove the shots of the beautiful church.
Really like the first picture - it has a real sense of space.
ReplyDeleteStewart M - Melbourne
Lovely post Carole. Great images carefully captured showing great .... I think they use the term .... composition!
ReplyDeleteLoved the back story with the Town Like Alice reference
What a beautiful little church! The stone work is very nice! Your first photo is gorgeous...it looks like the church could be easily missed in the vast landscape.
ReplyDeleteWow!! What a great post. Boom & Gary of the Vermilon River, Canada.
ReplyDeleteWOW !!!
ReplyDeleteVery beautiful series !!!
Lucja
A wonderful series of photos. Doesnt look like there is alot of like around that church. how big is its parish?
ReplyDeleteShaun Valleys ShutterBug
A picturesque scene of the outback and the quaint 1886 church. Reminds me of our western states.
ReplyDeleteOh, what wonderful pictures.
ReplyDeleteI like your photos....
a wonderful sky .. and a wonderful range....
Best regards, Karin
Enjoyed reading all your comments, thank you!
ReplyDeleteShaun, not a lot left around that church, only about fifty people reside there nowadays, and they mainly cater for tourism. When the lode took up in Broken Hill, people living in Silverton picked up their homes and re-built them for the mining opportunities in Broken Hill. Posts to follow on the Line of Lode in Broken Hill, fascinating.
I'm yet to find out from records for you,re the parish of St. Carthage.
A gorgeous little church right in the middle of no-where.
ReplyDeleteTerritory looks like you would have a good hike to get there...LOL!
ReplyDeleteGreat picture Carole!
Paper Hugs,
Jan
What a beautiful little church this is Carole!
ReplyDeleteI just love the setting it is in too.
I love those first couple of shots- the church looks to be all alone, in the middle of nowhere!
ReplyDeleteIt almost looks like a desert with barren landscape, i wonder what is the population of that area. Maybe they are socially very close to each other because they are very few, and that church certainly is a social networking edifice too! lovely.
ReplyDeleteWhat great photos. That space is incredible. Living in such a highly populated city it is hard to imagine those empty landscapes with one isolated building.
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