Collection: Local Book

Archival report on house at 8 Hemmings Street Lemongrove.

The former St Marys Council Chambers building was completed in 1934 and altered in 1950 and 1960. The building was designed by Carfrae Sydney and built by the Ellis brothers. The building was occupied by the St Marys & District Historical society in 2014/2015.

The Hawkesbury Nepean River system is desperately in need of a sustainable long term method of controlling excessive growth of acquatic weeds that does not rely solely on the use of herbicides.

Compiled from an assignment prepared by Lorna Parr as part of her Dip. of Local & Applied History at Armidale University by Barbara Higginson for the sesqui-centenary of the issuing of the first known licence for the Arms of Australia Inn on 8 June 1841

Compilation of information on the restoration of the Arms of Australia Inn at Emu Plains for the Nepean District Historical Society for Penrith City Council

This is the story of the Arms of Australia Inn which is currently the Arms of Australia Inn Museum. This heritage building is one of the few wayside inns remaining in Australia.In 1814-15 Government Stockyards and Soldiers' Barracks were erected at Emu Plains (approximately at Hunter and River Ro...

This family history begins with William Worboys from Huntingdonshire. His descendants included farm workers, bootmakers and lay preachers. The book features a biography of each member of the family. They lived mostly in Windsor, Penrith and Kempsey, NSW