A (shaky) video tour of Lightning Ridge in 1988, courtesy of my late father, David Gawthorpe. I believe he filmed this with his new toy, a Sony Video-8 Camcorder, to show his family at Christmas '88.

This isn't a 'normal' IDU video, this is just an opportunity to archive a piece of Lightning Ridge history for posterity and the fun of it.

Elephants in the room:

I've edited the video a bit. There was a lot of crazy ground shooting and super shaky cam sections that were just hard to watch.
I've censored a few names that were mentioned, just to ensure privacy.
I've also removed a few uncouth bits of commentary.
Oh, yeah. Cancer sucks. Whack the donate button: https://www.cancer.org.au

A (shaky) video tour of Lightning Ridge in 1988, courtesy of my late father, David Gawthorpe. I believe he filmed this with his new toy, a Sony Video-8 Camcorder, to show his family at Christmas '88. This isn't a 'normal' IDU video, this is just an opportunity to archive a piece of Lightning Ridge history for posterity and the fun of it.