Collection: Local AV

Interview recorded with Raymond Wright, 15 February 2008 at Penrith City Library

In June 2008, Council signed the declaration to be a Refugee Welcome Zone, which acknowledges the human rights of refugees in our community and demonstrates the compassion of our residents to people who have arrived through an often difficult journey to find a place of safety. This video is a rec...

Interview recorded with Richard Lunt, 23 May 2008 at Penrith City Library--23 tracks, 69:03 mins

Interview recorded with Richard Nutt, 19 November 2009 at Penrith

Richard Stanton worked for Ducon in the St Marys industrial area. Richard was in the Navy during the war and worked as an inspector at the Ducon factory before working there as an employee.

Interview recorded with Robert Fielding, 3 and 10 April 2008 at Emu Plains

Robert George talks about his work in the shell section at the factory where he filled bullets and explosives and later assembled and packed shells. He worked there from the 1940s to 1992.

Roger Colless spoke at a monthly meeting of the NFHS in the 1980s. He spoke about his Colless family and their origins and the founder of the Nepean Times (1882-1962), Alfred Colless.

Interview recorded with Ron Fuller, 17 December 2009 at Penrith