Lightning Ridge, NSW, Australia
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.
Added references from the Angledool court ledger (1899-1903) to Joseph Beckett, Frank Doucutt, Charles Gibson, John Murray-Gibbes, Jack McNamara, Charles Nyghyah, Robert Moore and Tom Cullen.
Added advertisement image to Bottle House page.
Added section to Charlie Nettleton’s profile, added images of grave marker and site, newspaper articles. Added pull quote. Minor adjustment to pull quote formatting.
Added links to Anton Steinbach profile, minor formatting adjustments.
Added photographs to The Kite Brothers, Cleared Line, Bore Baths, Frank Leechman.
Added signatures to Jack McNamara, Harold Frazer, Dolly Frazer, Florence Murray, Albert Reeves, Albert Dominick, Fred Bodel, Andy Bastian, Jack Francis profiles. Updated/improved signatures on Jack Murray, Joe Gibbons, Jim Murray profiles.
Added references page to Ion Idriess.
Minor updates to E. C. Andrews’ profile.
Added signature mark to Mrs. Ann Ryan’s profile.
Added Facebook “like” button to the home page. Added video clip to Sid and George Graham profile. Added Sid & George Graham in to the Characters listing!
Site published!
Minor updates to several opal field pages, mostly adding links and fixing formatting.
Added custom 404 page. Added profile for Anton Steinbach/Thomas Jackson/The Count. Minor updates to Thorley’s Six Mile.
Added profiles for Bill Wedgwood, Victor Duplain, Jack Prentice, Harry Walsh, Bill Younger.
Added signature images to Ted Murphy, Harry Gallegos, Stuart Lloyd, Frances Moore, Jack Murray, Charlie Nettleton, the Canfell brothers, Billy Studman, George Cowan, Jim Steadman, John Landers, Phil Brady, Sarah Durrington, Joe Gibbons, Bill Etheridge, Watty Heness, Charles Nyghyah, Tom Urwin, Mandy Khan, Robert Moore, J. Wolstenholme, Pappa Francis, Ted Durrington, Doc Kenrick, E. C. Andrews, Frank Leechman, Otto Marquardt.
Added photograph to Dry Rush.
Split the Characters page into Characters + Authors.
Added profiles for Happy Jack Burke, Paddy Burke, John O’Grady. Minor changes to profile for Morilla Canfell.