Troy Grant MP, Minister for the Arts and Deputy Premier has advised that he has approved funding of $1,100 to the Wagga Wagga and District Historical Society through the NSW Governments Cultural Grants Programme 2015.

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.

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?

Munitions workers in 1943 marching in Baylis Street during an eight-hour procession. The Munitions Factory was situated at the corner of Murray and Forsyth Streets and was converted into the Dunlop Factory after the war.

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?

The Royal Australian Historical Society, Australia’s oldest historical organisation founded in Sydney in 1901, is heading to Bankstown on 24th and 25th October for its annual conference.

An Open Day for the Wal Fife Room will be held on Saturday 19th September 2015 from 10am to 4pm at the Mt Erin Convent.

ROUSING applause greeted the Kangaroo March re-enactment as it wandered into Junee on Monday.

The Murrumbidgee Turf Club was established in 1860. This photo is taken at an MTC event in the early 1900s.

WAGGA honoured its original World War I Kangaroos on Saturday with a moving ceremony at the Wagga Civic Centre and Victory Memorial Gardens and the start of a 35-day, 524 km re-enactment march to Campbelltown that retraces the steps of heroes who answered a call to arms in the wake of appalling losses at Gallipoli