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Broken Hill Mine and town. The Barrier Ranges were discovered by Captain Charles Sturt in 1844 but it was not until 1876 that silver was discovered at Thackaringa near Silverton by Paddy Green the storekeeper of Menindee. Sturt had taken samples of mineral rocks back to the SA governor in 1844 but they were lost! The silver rush at Thackaringa did not begin until 1880. At that time the NSW government sent a police officer and magistrate to Silverton. In 1883 Silverton was surveyed as a town and its own silver rush began. A year later it had a population of 1,745 with 3,000 near the town. There were dozens of silver mines and mining companies within thirty miles of Silverton. Then in September 1883 Charles Rasp an employee of the Mount Gipps sheep station saw a part of the ranges that looked promising for minerals so with other employees James Poole and David James he pegged off the Broken Hill mining lease as it looked like almost pure tin. Once aware of this mining claim George McCulloch, the leaseholder of Mount Gipps, held a meeting of all his station men. The seven men formed a syndicate pegging 7 more mining leases in the ranges covering all that is now Broken Hill. The syndicate was: Rasp boundary rider, McCulloch station leaseholder, George Urquhart sheep overseer, George Lind station bookkeeper, Philip Charley station hand, David James contractor and James Poole offsider of James. Within a year others took out the North Broken Hill blocks and others the South blocks. Early returns were poor and the lodes not rich but all lodes showed both silver and lead. By the end of 1884 chloride ores of lead and galena ores of silver and lead and some zinc were being mined. The first smelters were built at the mine. The Broken Hill Proprietary Company was floated in August 1885. Only four of the original group of seven in the Broken Hill Mining Company were in the new BHP Company. The shares that were sold from the old syndicate for around £110 were worth one million pounds six years later! The new company offered 1,600 shares at £20 each in Adelaide, Sydney and Melbourne. New shafts showed the lode went down almost vertically and was over 20 feet thick in places. The head office of BHP was located in Melbourne and the town of Broken Hill emerged around the BHP mines. Within days of the share release some shares were foolishly being sold for £13 a share. But in the first two months of operation the big mine produced over £44,000 worth of silver and lead. The first share dividend was given out three months after the company was formed! The first Broken Hill Post Office opened in 1885 as Silverton town and mines declined. The BHP mine shafts were over 200 feet by January 1886. By April BHP shares were worth £47 each. The BHP smelters opened in May 1886. In the next four months £67,000 worth of ore was obtained. By the end of 1886 shareholders had received over £4 for their initial share price of £20. The completion of the Peterborough to Silverton to Broken Hill railway set up BHP for more production in 1887. Original shareholders were going to be wealthy for at least the next 100 years or more. But the BHP mine was not the only mine- the other main ones were the South, Central, British, Block 14 and Block 10 mines. In 1888 BHP £20 shares reached £417 and their mine produced over £900,000 worth of ores including tin. In 1888 BHP was paying a regular dividend of £2 per share. In its first six years to 1891 BHP paid out £3,320,000 in dividends and produced over £7,000,000 worth of minerals. In its first four years BHP spent £175,000 on land, buildings, its smelters and machinery. By 1906 BHP had paid nearly £12,000,000 in dividends. By 1908 BHP employed 4,850 men and they were just one of several major companies in Broken Hill. BHP miners received a minimum of 10 shillings per eight hour shift in 1908. Three shower and bath rooms able to accommodate 500 men each were provided for those ending a shift. A major decision made by BHP in its early years was to end its smelting in Broken Hill in 1892 as there was not enough water there. Instead BHP developed their smelters at Port Pirie and railed the ores to that city from 1890 onwards. The British Broken Hill Company had established a smelter at Port Pirie in 1889 and BHP took this over and enlarged it. Eventually the smelters at Port Pirie smelted for five major Broken Hill mining companies. SA salt was required for the smelting of zinc in the Pirie smelters.
By the end of 1888 Broken Hill was the third biggest city in NSW after Sydney and Newcastle. It had a population of over 10,000 people by the beginning of 1889 but in April 1886 there had been only 34 inhabitants! The first building there was the mine manager’s house for the Day Dream mine in 1885. The town was surveyed in April 1886. The first church as the Wesleyan Methodist church built in 1885. The Customs House was an important early structure levying goods from South Australia but mainly collecting revenue from ores produced. The first hotel, the Bonanza was licensed October 1885. More followed. Hotels, houses and hovels had been built all over Broken Hill by the end of 1888 and in 1908 there were 61 hotels in Broken Hill. The town was declared a municipality in 1888. By 1890 many stone shops and offices in Argent Street had been completed and the town had a population of 26,000 by 1891. But progress had not been smooth. Strikes had closed mining operations for short periods, a major fire had destroyed wooden buildings in Argent Street in 1888, a water famine was experienced in 1892 and a bigger strike occurred in 1892 and in 1893 several banks had failed as depression and crisis hit all of Australia. The first of many serious mine accidents occurred in 1895 when nine men were killed and many wounded followed by another accident killing three men in 1897. But early in the 20th century the city was well endowed with churches, halls and government buildings. In 1905 there were wooden Anglican, Salvation Army, Baptist, Congregational and four wooden Methodist churches in the town. There were also three stone Methodist Churches, the stone Catholic Church (now the Cathedral), the stone Presbyterian Church in Lane Street and a stone Anglican Church in Railway Town. The Town Hall was built in 1891 as was the current Post Office. The Courthouse was finished in 1889 and the Police Station was built in 1890. The first Trades Hall was built in 1898.
Photography: Frank Sartori
Hair & Makeup: Mish Bratsos
Modelling and Retouching: Kelly Kooper
I've always been a dreamer. An overthinker. Fantasising. I got to play with those emotions in this concept which, unsurprisingly, came easily to me.
Looking forward to showing you guys some epic photos from my creative shoot a few weeks back with Frank Packer and Lucky Dip where we were covered in silver foil. The results were outstanding! I'm also in the process of planning 3 separate water shoots for the Christmas Break with some of my favourite creatives. Lots to look forward to.
Hoping you're all planning to do whatever you want to do for your Christmas break. If it's a tough time for you (like it is now for me, after the last 3 years), my advice is to stay busy, be social and try something new. Don't let yourself spend too much time by yourself. It's too easy to wallow in pain at difficult times.
Wishing you all a wonderful break x
You don't always have to take pictures of people. Stumbled across this shattered clock on the street.
Southend based Arriva Southern Counties YJ08 DZL broken down in Queensway, Southend-On-Sea. Not very far away from the Arriva Southend Depot.
An old structure unattended exists
There is a Pane of a Window Broken
From which I can see the Blur of a life past.
All that remains is a shard of my Former Self
Framed by my own constraints
Held together by cobwebs of memories
Disorganized and random as they appear
It is all I have to hold onto
The Light beyond drawing me to the end
The future cannot be known…
It is all an illusion
Peace will follow
Some photos of an old Egg Stand on my Property...drama queen as usual.
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I'm at a nest with four Killdeer eggs. Mama is running up within a couple of feet of me, calling, flapping and doing her best to lead me away from her precious eggs. Early morning light reveals the rufous coloring in the Killdeer feathers.
Our beautiful world, pass it on.
Presently the tow wagon from Prenton (just by where I live, actually) appears and hitches iteslf up prior to departure.
Broken Heart Robot is created by Craig Anthony Perkins. I always have a dilemma on how to display him as everywhere I place him, he seems very unhappy. =P
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Baby, I don't understand,
why we can't just hold on to each other's hands?
This time might be the last, I fear.
Unless I make it all too clear.
I need you so, ohh...
Take these broken wings,
and learn to fly again
learn to live so free.
And when we hear the voices sing,
the book of love will open up and let us in.
Take these broken wings...
Baby, I thing tonight
we can take what was wrong
and make it right.
Baby, it's all I know, that you're half of the flesh
and blood that makes me whole.
I need you so.
So take these broken wings,
you've got to learn to fly,
learn to live life so free.
And when we hear the voices sing,
the book of love will open up and let us in.
Yeah year, let us in, let us in.
Baby, it's all I know, that you're half of the flesh
and blood that makes me whole,
yeah yeah yeah, yeah yeah.
So take these broken wings,
you've got to learn to fly,
learn to live life so free.
And when we hear the voices sing,
the book of love will open up and let us in.
Take these broken wings,
you've got to learn to fly,
learn to live life so free.
And when we hear the voices sing,
the book of love will open up and let us in.
This will be my final image in the Riots series. Thank you all for your comments and encouragement throughout.
Apologies to any Scots or the Welsh about the title as you didn't participate in the disturbances, but 'Broken England' didn't have the same ring to it. I also think Wales and Scotland cannot deny that some serious issues regarding a perpetual underclass need to be addressed.
The Prime Minister has been banging on about this 'sick' element of society that needs mending. I'd say that it is certainly sick, but it cannot be attributed to just the one element i.e. the criminal underclass. It starts at the very top and works its way down. This moral depravity is the clearest sign of how 'trickle down' economics really works. That's just my tuppence worth.
Feel free to express what you feel is 'sick' about Britain.