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28 photos and 1 illustration tagged brokenhill, from 5 members of Flickr Commons.

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• newsouthwales
• blackandwhite
• archives
• staterecordsnsw
• farwest
• regional
• mining
• australia
• school
• children
• people
• publicdomain
• postoffices
• mines
• silvermine
• town
• trams
• townhall
• watt
• soldier
• war
• military
• wwi
• battle

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• Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection 24 photos & illustrations
• IWM Collections 2 photos & illustrations
• National Library of Medicine 1 photo / illustration
• State Library of New South Wales 1 photo / illustration
• British Library 1 photo / illustration

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Tram turning into Argent Street, Broken Hill (NSW)

from Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection

• beachcomber australia said:

  What a great photo. I would not have thought Broken Hill was that civilized in 1908 - stone buildings, steam trams, park with bandstand, Amcoorie tea etc ...

• Highranger said:

  It looks a bit like a museum diorama for some reason?

• jrg_from_oz said:

  The people on the corner liked their privacy, didn't they? Or was it an early example of selling the naming rights to their fence?

• beachcomber australia said:

  As a postcard -

Public Buildings, Broken Hill (NSW)

from Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection

• beachcomber australia said:

  See also -

• beachcomber australia said:

  Where has that tree by Mitchell Young gone to? !!

• beachcomber australia said:

  Slightly earlier photo of the Technical College, judging by the number of insulators on the phone pole (I can't believe I bothered to compare them!) -

Signaller Reginald Samuel Thorn

from IWM Collections

• Sherbornguy said:

  www.flickr.com/photos/imperialwarmuseum/7921756518/in/set... His brother, mentioned above.

• Historydevotee said:

  The National Archive of Australia has his digitised service record here: recordsearch.naa.gov.au/NameSearch/Interface/ItemsListing... THORN Reginald Samuel Service Number - 3621 Place of Birth - Cavanagh SA Place of Enlistment - Adelaide SA Next of Kin - (Mother) THORN Mary Ann The Australia Birth Index on Ancestry states Name:Reginald Samuel Thorn Birth Date:24 Aug 1888 Father's Name:John Samuel Thorn Mother's name:Mary Ann Bishop Birth Place:Thornton Registration Place:Frome, South Australia

• Charlotte Czyzyk said:

  Help piece together the Life Stories of more than 8 million men and women who made a contribution during the First World War at www.livesofthefirstworldwar.org/