AAA FM 107.1 (Wagga Wagga’s community radio station), have a special 2 or 3 times a year programme, called “Wagga Wagga’s Music Music”.

Will be held Thursday, 21st May at the dedicated Memorial Site located on the Kapooka Road commencing at 2pm. Further details are available from 6933 8214.  

Latest Book from Sherry Morris – Now Available A timely release to coincide with the annual commemoration of this tragic event, which took the lives of twenty six men and which concluded with the largest funeral ever seen in Wagga Wagga.

Heroes of Gallipoli contains the only known filmed scenes of the Allied involvement in the Gallipoli Campaign. It is an edited version of an earlier film, With the Dardanelles Expedition.

Thomas Trembath Lennon (1908-1992) was born in Sydney. He was a commercial and portrait photographer, operating his studio at 64 Victoria Road, Drummoyne, NSW during the 1930s and 1940s.

These are biographical documentaries which focus on Tom Lennon, who was the photographer for the Wagga Wagga Daily Advertiser in the 1950’s and 60’s.

Tom Lennon arrived in Wagga to work as a photo engraver with the short-lived Evening News. Later that year, he moved to The Daily Advertiser as its chief and originally, only photographer, and visually chronicled Wagga and the Riverina until the early 1970s.

In this early photo of Baylis Street, taken from Morrow Street looking south, Great Southern Motors is clearly visible on the left as are several Hotels further along the street.

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?

It is now easier for NSW residents to learn about the history of their local towns with Minister for Innovation and Better Regulation Victor Dominello launching the new Towns Through Time app.