Collection: Local Book

In 1999/2000 Penrith City Council funded the ADI-St Marys Oral History project. Penrith City Library, St Marys and District Historical Society and Chatswood Productions jointly conducted the project

Phillip Parker King married Harriet Lethbridge of Launceston Cornwall in January 1817. A few weeks later they sailed on the Dick for NSW. Harriet wrote to her husband during his long surveying work for the Royal Navy.

This was the first opportunity to exhibit the works of Margo Lewers' father Adolph Gustav von Plate (pronounced Plarter) and brother Carl Plate. Adolph, a German who travelled the world, settled in Perth. Carl was known for his abstract expressionism

Provides Council with an overview of issues and matters concerning affordable housing and homelessness. Also summarises the responsibilities and range of roles local government might adopt on these issues.

This draft Affordable Housing Strategy and Action Plan, which builds on Council's significant work to date, provides an overarching framework and identifies further direct actions and advocacy positions that Council will take towards improving housing affordability during 2023-2026.

This community profile is written to help school staff to gain a better cultural understanding of a newly emerging refugee group.

This book describes the lives of Salmon women pioneers in between 1825 and 1869 in colonial NSW. It covers in detail Joseph Salmon's family of three generations, with a detailed family tree, births, deaths and marriages, and offspring. The main focus of this biography is the wives and sister of T...

The ethical and moral dilemma which has come to light during this project, howeverm is the issue of raising awareness and then not having appropriate services in place to identify assess and then intervene effectively for that older person

Sydney Water is planning to extend sewerage services in the unsewered urban areas of Agnes Banks and Londonderry and installation of a pressure sewerage system and the transfer of wastewater to Richmond Sewage Treatment Plant.

This review of environmental factors for the Agnes Banks and Londonderry Sewerage Scheme covers the provision of a reticulated sewerage service to unsewered urban areas areas in these two villages. It has been prepared under Part 5 of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979. The review...

Sydney Water is planning to constricting and operating a pressure sewerage system in the villages of Agnes Banks and Londonderry.

This report primarily examines the local hydraulic specifications associated with the proposed flood evacuation route that skirts the village of Agnes Banks via The Driftway, Jockbet Road, Wilshire Road and Brooks Lane.

This report primarily examines the local hydraulic specifications associated with the proposed flood evacuation route that skirts the village of Agnes Banks via The Driftway, Jockbet Road, Wilshire Road and Brooks Lane. Such a route is necessary because of the pronounced low levels at Agnes Bank...