Collection: Local Book

Penrith City Council is committed to improving the liveability outcomes of urban development within the Penrith Local Government Area to address the urban heat island (UHI) effect and changing climate. This paper identifies two key issues and five actions which have the potential to make a signi...

Recruiting figures for enlistment in World War I had dwindled in the latter half of 1915. Gilgandra's Hitchen brothers had the idea of organising a route march of volunteers to Sydney, enlisting as they went. This is the story of that march.

Members of the Gilgandra Historical Society have put on record the story of Gilgandra's past. This account of the Coo-ee March is based on a talk that was given to the Historical Society some time in the early seventies. At that time very little was known about the March by the general public.

Ellison, Huff and Hunter family lines and their ties to Australia

This book gives an historical account of the lives of James Hanks and his partner Sarah Trapnell and their seven daughters, the currencies, in the new colony at Sydney Town in the early nineteenth century.

The first 40 years of European theatre in Australia have never until now been the subject of intensive inquiry. The author brings to life the shadowy figures that created the colony's first entertainment. These theatres were actually the initiative of the

The Muslim community has undergone rapid growth in Greater Western Sydney. Between the 1996 and 2001 census, Blacktown and Penrith local government areas experienced population rises of 58.7% and 25.1% respectively.