PHOTO: Cobar High School students delved into local memories involving the Silver Tank.
A one hundred and twenty year old local landmark has recently been celebrated by children born over a century after it was built.
Cobar’s local icon, the “Silver Tank”, has been standing proudly since 1901, when the 33-foot-high steel water tank was erected about a mile outside of town.
In 2022, locals were witness to a long planned transformation from the now unused tank into the Cobar Sound Chapel. A permanent sound art installation, it is the creation of composer and sound artist Georges Lentz in collaboration with architect Glenn Murcutt…