Our photo from the past this week is a street view along Gurwood Street looking west from Fitzmaurice Street about 1900. Contact Wagga Wagga and District Historical Society at www.wwdhs.org.au or on Facebook at wagga.history. Picture: CSURA RW5.371
In the Past compiled from the Daily Advertiser 13th June.
June 14, 2015 by ·
Our photo from the past this week features the Biscuit and Confectionery Department of David Copland and Co, Fitzmaurice Street, 1930s. Picture: CSURA RW2893/362.
In the Past compiled from the Daily Advertiser 6th June.
June 7, 2015 by ·
Our photo from the past this week features the Newtown Pharmacy at the Wagga Show during the 1920’s. Newtown Pharmacy was established about 1915 at 66 Baylis Street. It has operated continuously on the same site since and today is Michael O’Reilly’s Pharmacy.
In the Past compiled from the Daily Advertiser 30th May
May 31, 2015 by ·
Our photo from the past this week features Fitzmaurice Street, south from Kincaid Street, in the 1920s. The Crown Corner Refreshment Rooms are on the right.
Archives In Brief 120 – Gold Mining
May 24, 2015 by ·
This Archives in Brief (AIB) provides a brief overview of the major sources held by State Records that relate to goldmining.
The invisible farmer: the forgotten history of Australian country women; Radio National
May 24, 2015 by ·
Australian farming women have been on the land as long as men, but they’ve been largely ignored by the history books.
In the Past compiled from the Daily Advertiser 23rd May
May 24, 2015 by ·
Our photo from the past this week is the Riverine Club on the corner of Sturt and Tarcutta Streets about 1900. The Club opened in 1881 and is still trading today.
Colonel Steve Jobson CSC speaks about 1945 Kapooka training tragedy
May 22, 2015 by ·
The commandant of the Army Recruit Training Centre at Kapooka, Colonel Steve Jobson CSC, says the death of 26 soldiers in the 1945 training accident was as a much a loss for the Wagga community as it was for the army.
ThrowbackThursday: Daily Advertiser May 17-23, 1995
May 21, 2015 by ·
Take a look at what was going on in Wagga this time 20 years ago. There are lots of familiar faces – is yours one of them?
Victorian Places
May 19, 2015 by ·
This is a website containing the history of all the places in Victoria (Australia) that have now or once had a population over 200 at any time since the establishment of Victoria as a British colony.
