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The Archives Newspaper Articles

Every fortnight, the CSU Regional Archives submits an article to the Weekend Advertiser. Each article features a short story of relevance to our local area and its history. It may also contain information about certain collections we have here, the resources that are available in our search room, or about upcoming events or programmes connected with the Archives.

A PDF copy of each article can be found by clicking on the photographs below.

Lake Albert Farmers Tug-of-War team 1892
An Introduction and
a 5 1/4 hr Tug-of-War

Wagga Skating Olymipa 1910
Roller-rinks and Ratebooks

Fighting Bushfires
Government Gazettes and the Bushfires of 1904/5

The Murrumbidgee Milling Co-operative Ltd. c.1890
The Murrumbidgee Milling Co-operative and a history of Henry Baylis

The Davis Cup in Wagga 1956
The Davis Cup visits Wagga and a look at Tubbo Station

Hardy's Joinery in Chaston Street
The Hardy Family and the Wagga Masonic Hall

Inside Hunters on the Hill
Hunters on the Hill

Reg Sharpless
Pommy in the Outback -
Reg Sharpless

Lake Albert
A History of Lake Albert

The Dunlop Factory, on the corner of Forsyth and Murray Streets
The Dunlop Factory and Parish Maps

Tom Lennon with one of his dogs
Tom Lennon, photographer

The Wagga Wagga Service Women's Hostel
The Service Women's Hostel and
the Wagga Council Minute Books

The Hon. James Gormly on the balcony of Victoria House, Fitzmaurice Street
The Gormly Family

South Wagga Public School
School Archives and a history of the South Wagga Public School

The 1849 survey of Wagga by Thomas Scott Townsend
The Beginnings of Wagga and an Intro to the Archives Resources Kit

Anzac Day Service at the Victory Memorial Gardens c.1945
The Victory Memorial Gardens

The Wagga Fire Brigade 1881
The Wagga Fire Brigade

The Riverine Club in Tarcutta Street c.1900
The Riverine Club and Willan's Hill

Goonigul in 1956, today the site of the R.S.L. Club
The Wagga R.S.L. Site
and George Shepherd

The Dixieland entrance [RW1143]
Dixieland - A Jazz Hall on the Bidgee

The Wagga Wagga Advertiser Office, 1871
A History of the Daily Advertiser

Blamey's Famous Bread (RW1574)
Delivery Days and
Paper Preservation

The 1897 Coolamon Ploughing Committee
The Coolamon Ploughing Carnivals

Wagga Drive-In Projectionist, Peter Wikins
The Wagga Drive-In


Horseracing in Wagga

Wagga's first Post Office [RW5.103.14]
Wagga's Communications History


The Wagga Baths

Is it real? [RW1574.744]
Xmas Revisited

Borambola Homestead, 1954
Borambola Station

The Black Swan Hotel, 1974
 Wagga's Levee Banks
(The 1974 Flood)

Nancy Bird-Walton's Visits to Wagga

Nancy Bird-Walton's
Visits to Wagga

Interior of the Capitol Theatre, 1955
The Capitol Theatre

l-r: Chancellor D. Asimus; Member for Wagga, W. Fife, Member for Education, K. Beazley; Vice-Chancellor, C. Blake at Opening of Merrylees Library1992
CSU's 20th Anniversary

Stoneleigh, Wagga

Preserving Photographs

Gunner J.T. Thim
Researching Service Records

The First St. Michael's, opened Dec 1859
St. Michael's Catholic Church

Children choosing fireworks for Empire Day
Empire Day

WEF students, c.1910
Wagga Experiment Farm

3rd Wagga Brownies, Enrolment Day, Nov 1932. Back row - Read, Lusher & Rentoul.
Wagga Girl Guides

The Wagga Wagga School of Arts logo
150 Years of School of Arts

Wagga High School [RW5_103]
Wagga Wagga High School

Mahon and Headley logo
The Brewery on the Esplanade

WANS Transport Drivers
Women's Volunteer Services
during WW2

Mount Erin, Wagga Wagga
Sister Ligouri - The Nun in the Nightgown

The Black Swan Hotel, 1910
The Cartwright Family Murder

Wagga WANS, 1943 - Centre front is Kath Higgins, Commandant
Women's Australian National Service (WANS)


Using Newspapers for Research

Wagga WFA, outside Johnston St. Fire Station [RW2008]
Women's Fire Auxiliary (WFA)