Found at the former settlement of Nettleton near Lightning Ridge in north-west NSW, this brass seal was used at the local post office from 1912 when the area was bustling with opal miners and their families. As well as the post office, Nettleton once boasted a school, boarding house, and shops selling flour and tea, […]
Victorian goldminer Charles Waterhouse Nettleton (1862-1946) arrived on Mt Browne’s Albert gold fields west of Milparinka in New South Wales sometime before it closed down in 1893. He was a solitary man, a prospector, so wandered southeast to White Cliffs, the home of milky opal, and his new interest. But gold was in his blood […]
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