Collection: Local AV

These documentary films were commissioned by the Hawkesbury-Nepean Catchment Management authority to highlight the achievements and work of the community to protect our natural environment.

These documentary films were commissioned by the Hawkesbury-Nepean Catchment Management Authority to highlight the significance of Indigenous connection to the local environment and the work being done by local communities to protect and restore these areas.

Helen Dunn talks about her childhood in Shanghai and her family's assisted migration to Australia at the time of the Communist party coming to power in China. Greg Ostrouhoff talks about working at the Cuckson factory.

Interview recorded with Helen Regan, 19 January 2009 at Penrith Council

Henry Kelly worked in various sections at the munitions factory at various periods of its operation from 1943 until 1988. Henry and his family lived in the Duration Cottages when his parents worked at the old factory.

Interview recorded with Hilton and Marie Sheens, 12 February 2009 at Emu Plains

Granting of the Freedom of the City on 15 June 1979 to the 133 Signal Squadron stationed at Kingswood. DVD contains footage of the ceremony at the Showground, followed by a march down High Street.

Footage from The Great Escape, held in Penrith in 2008, a car rally created to raise funds for Cystic Fibrosis Australia (CFA).

Interview recorded with Greg Dews, 22 October 2009 at Richmond

Greg Paterson worked at the 3M factory as a production planner and later Occupational Health and Safety Officer from 1964 until 1999.