Wodonga & District Historical Society Inc

Wodonga & District Historical Society Inc A local group doing their best to gather and preserve the history of Wodonga and district. Local historical society run by volunteers.
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1984 Wodonga Primary School Staff and Grade 6N – courtesy of the Nicholson family. Click on each photo to see all includ...
31/08/2026

1984 Wodonga Primary School Staff and Grade 6N – courtesy of the Nicholson family. Click on each photo to see all including names.

1965 High Street at the bottom, South Street on the left. Hovell Street near the top. From our Mann albums.
30/08/2026

1965 High Street at the bottom, South Street on the left. Hovell Street near the top. From our Mann albums.

Produced by the Kiewa dairy cooperative in the Wodonga and Kiewa Valley district before it amalgamated into the North Ea...
29/08/2026

Produced by the Kiewa dairy cooperative in the Wodonga and Kiewa Valley district before it amalgamated into the North Eastern Dairy Company in 1959.
Created during the 1950s when surplus milk at the Kiewa factory was processed into spray-dried milk powders.

Hovell Street looking north. Top right, current Wodonga Council under construction, opened 1976.On the right Civic Centr...
28/08/2026

Hovell Street looking north. Top right, current Wodonga Council under construction, opened 1976.
On the right Civic Centre opened 1971, demolished 2011 and replaced by The Cube.

1972. Empty block on the corner of High Street and Elgin Street (some referred to it as Old Melbourne Road) after demol...
27/08/2026

1972. Empty block on the corner of High Street and Elgin Street (some referred to it as Old Melbourne Road) after demolition of the Shire Hall and Melba Theatre and waiting for construction of Safeway.

Pat Gooding recalls going to work at Bradford Kendall Foundry in the 1950's. Access to the foundry wasn't via Osburne St...
26/08/2026

Pat Gooding recalls going to work at Bradford Kendall Foundry in the 1950's. Access to the foundry wasn't via Osburne Street which didn't exist in its present form. Osburne Street ended where the Bowling Club is now. "We had to enter via Huon Street and drive through the old railway shunting yards, do a right turn into Queen Anne Street, which is now known as Queen Street, drive down to the foundry which was a big bog and into the foundry yards. My brother, who was a little older than me, also worked at the foundry. He worked on the furnace which started no later than 6 a.m. and often at 4 in the morning. He was driving through the railway shunting yards in his new second-hand Consul which was the pride of his life, and 'crunch', one of the shunting trains collected him. That was the type of hazard we had to go through to get to work in those days."

Ned Day's CornerAuctioned for sale August 1975, demolished and Astra House was built. Corner Jack H**e Place and Hovell ...
25/08/2026

Ned Day's Corner
Auctioned for sale August 1975, demolished and Astra House was built. Corner Jack H**e Place and Hovell Street.
It was uncanny that I posted this article on 5 Feb 2020 and later discovered that Ned Day had passed away on 2 Feb 2020.

This is an advertisement from 1996, which they are trying to convince me is 30 years ago, I refuse to believe that!! Pl...
23/08/2026

This is an advertisement from 1996, which they are trying to convince me is 30 years ago, I refuse to believe that!!
Please tell us your stories about this restaurant.

From an official album of photos and text with the title The River Murray Waters Scheme, Hume Reservoir. It was presente...
22/08/2026

From an official album of photos and text with the title The River Murray Waters Scheme, Hume Reservoir. It was presented to the right Honorable L.C.M.S. Avery, P.C., M/P., Secretary of State For Dominion Affairs on the occasion of his visit to the Hume Reservoir on 2nd November, 1927, with the compliments of the New South Wales Constructing Authority.
The last two photos in the album:
Valley of the Murray to be crossed by the Bethanga Bridge described in the next photograph. This view shows the marshalling sidings for trucks below the Quarry, New South Wales, and the branch line to the site of the bridge.
Bethanga Bridge Site. A bridge is being built to cross the Reservoir to serve a large area of country which will be cut off from its natural outlets by the submergence of existing bridges when the Reservoir is in being. The site of the bridge is nearly a mile up the Murray from the Hume Reservoir Quarry. Its length will be approximately half a mile. There will be nine spans of 269 feet with steel truss girders resting on concrete pillars. Some of the pillars are founded on rock while others will rest on nests of reinforced concrete piles. The foundations and concrete piers are in the hands of the Victorian Constructing Authority and the superstructure in those of the New South Wales Authority. August 1927.

Hume Weir floodwater release October 1996. This was a man-made but big flood which occurred when water had to be release...
21/08/2026

Hume Weir floodwater release October 1996. This was a man-made but big flood which occurred when water had to be released from the Hume dam to allow remedial works to be carried out on the wall.

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Bonegilla Migrant Experience, Hut 97, 132 Bonegilla Road
Bonegilla, VIC
3691

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Wednesday 10am - 3pm
Saturday 10am - 3pm
Sunday 10am - 3pm

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