 William Stanley, the last inhabitant from this earlier period, lived at Wenlock until his death in 1957.Prospectors continued fossicking around the old workings and during 1964–65 the recovery of two tons of handpicked specimen stone yielding 2,787 ounces of gold was reported.In 1986 claim holders used excavators to rework the Top Camp diggings and some coarse nugget gold was recovered before the field was abandoned.