Wagga Girls: A celebration of life, love and friendship at 38 Morrow St

Wagga Girls

Hello and welcome! This is a passion project. A celebration of generations of Riverina women that shaped the community for Wagga girls like me.

It’s about women. Their stories, their dreams and their journey in my hometown, Wagga Wagga, which hugs the banks of the Mighty Murrumbidgee River on Wiradjuri Country, New South Wales Australia.

This project will be a consultative, community-led initiative with no commercial interests. Any profits from book sales will be delivered straight back into the Riverina community. I hope to collaborate with Riverina community organisations and members at every step of this journey. I am sure this will be the most rewarding part of the experience for me, but most importantly I want to ensure the work truly belongs to Wagga.

This website isn’t set up to promote the book (although that’s the goal eventually!), but rather to collate information for community organisations and members interested in the project.

Erin

Please note – this website is intentionally simple. In the spirit of the project my time is better spent listening, learning, and connecting with the women whose stories I want to celebrate.

The wedding of Neville and Marcelle at the hostel in 1944.
[Image courtesy of the Charles Sturt University Regional Archives. Service Women’s Hostel collection – RW1572]

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If you have memories, photos or connections to this building, or your organisation works to preserve women’s history in our region, I’d love to hear from you. Submissions can be anonymous, fully credited to you, or whatever you feel most comfortable with.

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Bess Duncanson (Matron), Dot Stebbing and
‘Michael’ at the Service Women’s Hotel during the war
[Image courtesy of the Charles Sturt University Regional Archives from the Service Women’s Hostel Wagga Wagga Collection, RW1572]

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“The great thing is that you are going to feel just like girls again – because, after all, it is quite natural that camp life should be very different from what all girls have been used to in their homes.”

Zara Hore-Ruthven, Countess of Gowrie


Kohlhagen, J. (2019, June 26). ‘Camp life’ to ‘happy home’. Charles Sturt University Regional Archives Blog. https://onrecordblog.wordpress.com/2019/06/26/camp-life-to-happy-home/