The Wagga Daily Advertiser has launched a new Archival Photo Galleries Hub.

Story from todays coverage by the Wagga Daily Advertiser of yesterdays demolition of Wagga’s Hampden Bridge. Includes photos and a video link.

The Daily Advertiser has published an historic photo gallery of Wagga’s Hampden Bridge which was demolished yesterday.

Following  the excellent presentation by John Lamont at our monthly meeting last night there was some discussion on the origins of the name Kooringal which is shared by the Wagga suburb and the Lamont family owned Kooringal Stud at Harefield, near Wagga.

Visit our family history and local history area on Lower Ground 2 of the State Reference Library Reading Room in Macquarie Street, Sydney.

In this second issue of the Royal Australian Historical Society eNews read about the recent Wagga Wagga Regional Seminar and the third presentation of the History is Hot series with postgraduate students from the University of Technology.

The Wagga City Council 1949 Information Booklet makes fabulous reading and is full of facts and figures about Wagga in 1949.

Throwback Thursday – The Daily Advertiser from 21 Years ago

The Discovering ANZACs site includes profiles of the five nurses featured as characters in the six-part series ‘ANZAC Girls’, screening on ABC1 during August – September 2014.

I was fortunate to attend two of the three presentations made in Wagga today by visiting staff from the State Library of NSW.