Started today with a headache so took some tablets and laid in a bit until 9am. It was still really windy and quite chilly. After breakfast, Barry went outside and then called out that the dead bird had disappeared – had I removed it? No, I hadn’t touched it. All that was left were a few colourful feathers on the ground. Something had obviously had a feast during the night. We then went into what’s left of Silverton proper. It was originally settled when silver was discovered in the Barrier Ranges in 1876 and mines and smelters were established nearby. It had a population of 1,745 with 4,000 people in the whole district in 1884 and was proclaimed a town and had a Municipal Council in 1885, with a private rail line the Silverton Tramway Company
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