Bretrick
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- Perth Western Australia
As a young tyke growing up in Queenstown, Tasmania, there was a hill in the middle of the town which from the top gave a 360 degree view of the town below.
The name of this hill was called Spying Cop.
A name we kids thought meant that it was a place the police would go every now and then with binoculars and spy on all us kids as we got up to mischief.
As such, when doing "mischief" we would make sure we could not be seen from the "Spying Cops" up on the hill.
Many, many years later, when Google was the go to, I inputted "Spying Cop" Queenstown Tasmania and blow me down and tickle me pink.
Spying Cop morphed into "Spion Kop" (Lookout Hill)
Returning Soldiers to Queenstown named the hill Spion Kop because of the very real similarities to the hill, "Spioenkop"
The Battle of Spion Kop was fought about 38 km (24 mi) west-south-west of Ladysmith on the hilltop of Spioenkop along the Tugela River, Natal in South Africa from 23–24 January 1900.
It was fought between the South African Republic and the Orange Free State on the one hand and British forces during the Second Boer War campaign to relieve Ladysmith.
It was an iconic British Defeat that resulted in a Boer victory.
So much for the Local Police "Spying" on us reprobate kids.
The name of this hill was called Spying Cop.
A name we kids thought meant that it was a place the police would go every now and then with binoculars and spy on all us kids as we got up to mischief.
As such, when doing "mischief" we would make sure we could not be seen from the "Spying Cops" up on the hill.
Many, many years later, when Google was the go to, I inputted "Spying Cop" Queenstown Tasmania and blow me down and tickle me pink.
Spying Cop morphed into "Spion Kop" (Lookout Hill)
Returning Soldiers to Queenstown named the hill Spion Kop because of the very real similarities to the hill, "Spioenkop"
The Battle of Spion Kop was fought about 38 km (24 mi) west-south-west of Ladysmith on the hilltop of Spioenkop along the Tugela River, Natal in South Africa from 23–24 January 1900.
It was fought between the South African Republic and the Orange Free State on the one hand and British forces during the Second Boer War campaign to relieve Ladysmith.
It was an iconic British Defeat that resulted in a Boer victory.
So much for the Local Police "Spying" on us reprobate kids.
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