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Corner store a piece of history

BELIEVED to be one of the oldest functioning corner stores in the country, Shelley’s Corner Store on the corner of Lane and Iodide Streets has been a part of Broken Hill’s streetscape for well over a century.

It’s estimated the shop first operated in 1890 as Wade’s Shop, a butcher serving the early Broken Hill mining community.

Broken Hill Times

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