We’ve talked to the Wagga Tidy Towns committee to help come up with a top-five shame list for eyesores in the city.
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It follows one resident pointing out the rail yard as a site that could do with some cleaning up.
Some of the places are in the middle of being redeveloped so hopefully they will become beautiful in a matter of time.
5. Former Eric Weissel Oval block
The once mighty home of Wagga rugby league has been reduced to a pile of rubble.
The old leagues club building was demolished in May after standing defiant for 10 years after the block was sold off.
The site is being redeveloped into a residential area.
4. The old flour mill site
The eastern side of the flour mill site has seen better days.
Kids used to play sport on nearby Bolton Park with the scent of baking bread wafting through the air and getting tummys rumbling.
But now the landscape represents a ghost town.
The western end shows a promise of things to come with apartments being built but, until the site is fully developed, travellers on the highway will only see what is a blight on our city.
3. Former South Wagga Bowling Club
On any given afternoon you could see a bunch of keen bowlers practising their craft up until the South Wagga Bowling Club closed on New Year’s Eve, 2011.
The club was an oasis for bowlers and revellers alike, with many 21st birthdays and other functions being celebrated inside the humble building’s simple brick wall construction.
There was a call to save the club late in its life, but it wasn’t to be.
2. Railway yard
Fed-up resident Danny O’Hare is sick of the site of it, and it turns out it’s annoying Wagga Tidy Towns committee chairman John Rumens as well.
Mr O’Hare is particularly annoyed at the area east of the railway station, but Mr Rumens wants the garden across from the rail platform to be returned to its former glory.
Mr Rumens said both the general community and corporations need to work together to restore some civic pride.
1. Corner of Baylis/Edward streets
It’s on the corner of arguably Wagga’s busiest intersection.
It’s one of the first things rail travellers will see after the awful railway yard. Quite a one-two impression, Wagga.
The block used to be a service station, but now only serves to provide … what’s the opposite of eye candy? Google tells me “eye broccoli but that’s an insult to the little trees.
Let’s hope visitors don’t go east along the highway to see the ruins of the South Wagga Bowling Club or the remains of the flour mill.
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