Lightning Ridge, NSW, Australia
Added profile for government surveyor and Undersecretary of Mines E. F. Pittman. Updated signature image for Bill Younger. Added signature for Theo Lorenz. Added signature for Dave Lafly. Added details of miners’ rights for Sid Sharkey, E. F. Murphy, Bill Wedgwood, Charles Nygyah. Added details of Wallangulla Mineral Field proclamation (and image) to the History Timeline. Added note about 1903 newspaper broadcast of opal discovery to the Discovery of Opal page.
Updated birthplace for Jack Austin - thanks Richard!
Added profile for Arthur McLaren.
Added pages for Weetalibah Hotel, Gooraway Hotel, Lightning Ridge Hotel, Moongulla Hotel, Wilby Wilby Hotel, updates to page for Imperial Hotel/Digger’s Rest. Added profiles for Dave Lafly and Josiah Williams. Minor updates to page navigation. Added date of death to Isidore Kozminsky profile. Updated image on W. C. Eyles profile. Added Justice of the Peace information to Robert Moore profile.
Added profile(s) for Whiting & Relph. Added profile for opal buyer and cutter Theo Lorenz.
Added embedded video of 1986 BBC documentary to Billy Capp’s profile. Minor tweaks to Silent Jim Reid’s profile.
Added 1906-1907 survey map to Jack Murray profile showing mine location on the Nobby field. Also added map to Nobby field page. Added obituary to Joe Beckett profile.
Added an optional phone number field to the contact us form. Added enhanced 1940 image of Charlie Nettleton to his profile page.
Added photograph to Frank Leechman author profile.
Added photograph to Milly Canfell profile.
Minor updates to Frank Leechman, Sid Sharkey.
Added additional information to Stuart Lloyd’s profile.
Added profile for Allan W. Eckert, author of A World of Opals.
Added listing of streets and their origins/definitions/history. Minor edits to a few articles, added or improved sources on some photos (Fred Bodel, Charlie Gibson profiles). Added additional sources to Spirit of Lightning Ridge and First Shaft Lookout pages.
Added additional information on Sid Sharkey’s profile. Added Shearer’s Six Mile to Historic Opal Fields.
Added quotes to Sid Sharkey, About Lightning Ridge, Imperial Hotel. Added sources to About Lightning Ridge. Updated sources on Old Town. Added embedded video to Lightning Flash Newspaper. Added libel case info to Harry Abotomey and Tom Brady.
Added sources to the Timeline, more to be added. Added information about firefighting incident in 1905 to Jack Murray’s profile.
Added profiles for the six Regal and Vice-Regal visitors, accessible via the Authors & More page: Sir Harry Rawson, Sir Dudley de Chair, Sir Philip Game, Sir John Northcott, Lord Casey and Dame Marie Bashir.
Added profiles for George Weldon, Jim Craig, Cecil Hammond, Phil Lambert-Smith, Jack Leechman, Silent Jim Reid, Bob Potts (Jr.), Douglas McEwen, Kelsey I. Newman and Garnet Preston. Added additional information to Charlie Nettleton’s profile, reorganised some sections.
Added image of Eric Catterall’s book to the Authors page. Updated image of W. C. Eyles The Book of Opals.
Added profiles for Archie Gillespie, Charlie Kinder, Freddy Leiske, Jack Austin, George Bailey, Frank Brown, Don Campbell, “Scrub Bull” Edwards, “Tingha Bill” Grant, Walter Hague, “Peggy”, Harry Abotomey, Queenie Allport, Roy Allport, Bill Younger.
Formatting updates across most pages, added ‘double line’ graphic above references.