WAGS

Special Library Display, March 2014

There is more to this image than meets the eye - keep watching for a special announcement.

Our ever busy Librarian has been gathering the troops.

We now have on display our the newly acquired image of the 11th Battalion A.I.F. on the Great Pyramid of Giza (Cheops). This iconic photo will soon be hanging in the Library, but for the moment is part of the monthly library display table along with some of the military books available in the WAGS Library. See image below...

2014 is Homecoming Year

A Western Australian contribution to The Scottish Diaspora Tapestry is being submitted by the WAGS Scottish Interest Group (SIG), for James Drummond (1784-1863). This  portrait by Mary Moore hangs in the Agricultural Hall of Fame at the Perth Showgrounds.

James Drummond arrived with Governor Stirling in 1829 at the Swan River Colony on the Parmelia. Drummond was soon following his passion for botany, initially as the Government Naturalist looking after the government gardens until he was officially appointed as the Government Botanist.

The WAGS Scottish group has an enthusiastic team of willing embroiders but there is a need for experienced embroiders who could guide the group with some of the more intricate sections. The tapestry pattern is below...