I was at the AGM of the Silverton Local History Society last night, a report of which I would imagine will be appearing in due course, on their website. The AGM was followed by a talk by Maxine Edwaeds of this parish, on her recent visit to Silverton New South Wales. Silverton NSW had a brief history as a mining boom town in the late nineteenth century before being overtaken by its nearby rival, Broken Hill, where bigger deposits of silver were discovered. The austrailian Silverton has now declined into a semi ghost town with a few art and craft communities and a museum. It does however, retain some of its early artitechure which has made it a prime locatrion for filmakers and it has featured in films as diverse as 'A Town Like Alice', 'Mad Max' and its sequels and 'Priscilla Quen Of The Desert'. It has also featured in many of the Castlemaine 4x advertisments.
The thought that occured to me was what might happen if the mad max fan club and a bunch of 'Friends Of Priscilla' got redirected to Silverton, England by mistake. I suspect that the results would be far more entertaining then Street Market.
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