Nobbys Lighthouse is a unique heritage icon that should stand proud and free as a heritage sentinelon Nobbys Headland within the Coal River Heritage Park SHR 1674. Nobbys Lighthouse is the oldest surviving lighthouse on the Australian coast. It replaced an earlier coal-fired beacon on Signal Hill (site of the present day Fort Scratchley).

Snowball Collection circa 1900

Petition from people of Newcastle that stopped Colonel Barney from blowing up Nobbys Nov. 1853

Nobbys Island showing the coal seams and chambers excavated by convits for the blowing up of Nobbys illustration Mr W. Keene 1854 Examiner of Mines.

See the University of Newcastle's Coal River Website for further historical information