Collection: Local Book

"In the Winter of 2019 Peter Ridgeway set out to walk 179 kilometres across the Cumberland Plain, the region of rural land west of Sydney. Carrying his food and water and camping under the stars, he crossed one of the least-known landscapes in Australia, all within view of its largest city. This ...

An introduction to John Wilkinson and Esther Brynes and their 14 children and 124 grandchildren. There is also a provisional list of 397 great-grandchildren, comprising at least 550 descendants overall.

The account of the life of William Chalker, Charker, Chaulker. His wives were Marys Kearns and Elizabeth Scheckell. Chalker arrived in NSW in 1802 on the Coromandel as a convict. Received a land grant at South Creek St marys in 1812 and again in 1818.

"This bicentenary souvenir commemorates William Cox and the road he built in 1814-1815 which first expanded European settlement outside the Sydney basin. It contains a new transcript of Cox's journal as well as seminal documents from Governor Macquarie and a list of the men who 'laboured for thei...

William Cox was a soldier, road builder, and pioneering pastoralist in the colony of New South Wales. He made his name building the road across the Blue Mountains in 1814. In this biography, Richard Cox a descendant gives the details of William Cox's life

A scrapbook on the life of William Hart, an aviator born in April 1885. His youth was spent fishing in the Hawkesbury River. As a teenager he made several flights over the suburbs of Sydney. In 1911, he flew from Penrith to Parramatta and back again.