Collection: History Support Collection

Report on the issues and needs of refugee and emerging CALD communities in the area, with a focus on communities who have arrived in Penrith City between 2005 and 2012. Communities consulted: South Sudanese, Afghan, Bhutanese and Iranian.

In 1994 Penrith Council resolved to prepare a development and landscape master plan which responds to the conservation values of the cemetery

The history of the local government area of Penrith is presented in this heritage study as a thematic history. Historic themes impart information in regard to the place, the local region and its storylines

Report on the value of the Castlereagh area viewed as an item of the European cultural heritage.

The literature review is primarily endeavouring to determine the most successful performance of retail strips under various forms of street construction and managerial operation.

An intergenerational project between school students, migrants and refugees living in the Penrith Local Government Area. The project involved 23 students from local school who interviewed local migrants and refugees and then wrote up their stories.

This study draws together information about the modern architecture that exists in Penrith. The study found that Penrith has an excellent collection of Modern buildings from immediately before the Second World War up to the 1980s.The main previous studies which have been undertaken, and previous ...