T. Edmondson and Co was in Gurwood Street on the present Woolworths site from 1868 until 1973. This photo provided courtesy of the Sherry Morris Collection comes from an early 20th century postcard .

Fitzmaurice Street looking north from the Wollundry Lagoon. Several of these buildings are still recognisable. Notice the old Australia Hotel on the left in the distance with verandas.

In 1891 Council purchased the saleyards established by A. T. Bolton in Travers Street. By the 1920’s Wagga Wagga was recognised as the largest stock selling area outside the metropolitan markets. Sales of sheep alone increased from 59,621 in 1915 to 554,066 in 1928.

There is a change of date and location for our July meeting which will now be held in the Wagga railway precinct on Friday 21st July. We will start at 10am at the Railway Barracks, 61 Railway Street (pictured above)

Although the railway reached North Wagga in 1878, the bridge over the Murrumbidgee River was not completed until November 1880 with the first train crossing January 16, 1881.

The coach-building and wheelwright business established by John Gelme in Wagga Wagga at the turn of the 20th Century started in a small way but very quickly grew to become one of Wagga’s premier manufacturing businesses.

Fifes Bakery, operated by Jim Fife and his family, had four retail bakeries and two bakehouses in Wagga Wagga.

Documentary photographer Effy Alexakis and historian Leonard Janiszewski have been researching the Greek-Australian presence in both Australia and Greece since 1982. Their project and archive, In Their Own Image: Greek-Australians, is based at Macquarie University, Sydney, and is one of the most significant collections of its kind in the country.

Wagga dental mechanic, Ken Chambers at work in the 1960s. 

This is Wagga’s Anzac Day Parade in Baylis Street in 1952. The large building in the centre was the Empire Hall which has been demolished. The next building to its left was the Exchange Hotel which minus its verandah became the John Macarthur Hotel and is now Cache.