Collection: Local AV

Interview recorded with Betty Hargreaves, 13 February 2009 at Emu Plains

Video footage of the official launch of the celebrations of the Bicentenary of the first European Crossing of the Blue Mountains, held in Penrith 2013.

Bicentennial games held in Penrith, event put on by the children of Jamisontown Public School and York Public School.

Bill Flynn talks about his work at the factory - he started work in the accounting section in 1945.

Interview recorded with William (Bill) Vincent Hardy, at Glenmore Park, Penrith

Re-enactment commemorating the first successful crossing of the Blue Mountains by Blaxland, Lawson and Wentworth in 1813. Re-enactment and celebrations was part of the Commonwealth Jubilee. Recorded by the ABC in Sydney on 7 June 1951.

A project to capture the reminiscences of residents of Luddenham/Badgerys creek - the location of the proposed Western Sydney Airport. Interview recorded 24 May 2017.

Bob Backhouse describes the construction of the buildings and working at the factory through to the 1980s.

Bridget Morgan talks about living in the staff cottages provided for staff of the Munitions Factory and growing up in North St Marys. Her parents came from England and her father found work as an engineer at the factory.

Footage from the Penrith Centenary procession in 1971.

Interview recorded with Charles Oxenham, 4 June 2010 at Penrith

Interview recorded with Claire Gledhill, 5 March 2009 at Penrith

Interview recorded with Colin Death, 6 May 2010 at Penrith Library

Footage contains artists impressions of the redevelopment of Penrith Plaza. The redevelopment will see the existing center extended across Riley Street at street level and connected by a retail overbridge to Level 1, providing closer links with the Penrith CBD and railway station.

This is the story of the march and its re-enactment in 1987.

Anniversary celebrations of Cuckson factory at St Marys

Photos looking back over the years of the Catholic Youth Organisation (CYO) at St Nicks. Photos include outings, weddings and reunion held in 2005.

Dennis Dunn and Tom Russell talk about working at the factory during the mid 1950s and 1960s.