Lightning Ridge Historical Society

Lightning Ridge, NSW, Australia

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New additions, 11 September 2025.

September 11, 2025 by Russell Gawthorpe

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.

September 11, 2025 /Russell Gawthorpe
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Lightning Ridge Historical Society
PO Box 1
Lightning Ridge
NSW 2834
Australia

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7 Morilla Street
Lightning Ridge
NSW 2834
Australia

 

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