Take a trip down memory lane to May 1-5 in 1995. There are loads of familiar faces – is yours one of them?

The footbridge was at the southern end of Trail Street and spanned Wollundry Lagoon. It was removed to make way for Ivan Jack Drive connecting Trail Street to Best Street which was opened to traffic in 1961.

Giltrap’s ‘lorry’ evacuating North Wagga residents during one of the floods in the 1950s. There were several floods in the 1950s, the worst in 1950 (10.13 metres), 1952 (9.45 m) and 1956 (9.58 m) when 1200 North Wagga-ites had to be evacuated.

The Wagga Wagga Hotels Location map has now been posted to our web page.

Ancestry.com.au will open the site’s New Zealand and Australian military history collections, and UK collections with  FREE information on Commonwealth soldiers, until 11.59 pm Sunday (26 April).

“I will never forget Sunday, 25th of April. I really believe it will mark an era in Australian history. On this day, Australians proved themselves.

The April 2015 issue of Now&Then is out now. The latest issue features many World War I-related items:

The State Library of NSW has released 50,000 pages of digitised World War One diaries for the public to transcribe.

Built in the late 1800s, the Manor was the Temperance Hall in 1877 and later purchased by Doctor Thomas William Watkins Burgess.

Wagga Teachers College in the 1950’s. Wagga Teachers College commenced in July 1947 at the former site of No.1 RAAF Hospital near the Showgrounds.