Keith and Neil Duncan yabbying at North Wagga in December 1960. Photo from Lennon Collection RW1574.319 at CSU Regional Archives.
Tom Lennon arrived in Wagga in 1955 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 he continued to visually chronicle Wagga and the Riverina until the early 1970s.
Tom was a unique personality, compassionate and sometimes difficult with colleagues. A photograph of him leaning against a One Way sign is an indicator of his attitude to his work – ‘one way, my way’. More than this, Tom Lennon fits within a quotation he wrote beside a photograph of himself in pensive mood – ‘That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of our time.’ (John Stuart Mill 1869)
His remarkable and extensive collection is maintained in Wagga at the CSU Regional Archives.
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