Collection: Local AV

Bob Backhouse describes the construction of the buildings and working at the factory through to the 1980s.

Bridget Morgan talks about living in the staff cottages provided for staff of the Munitions Factory and growing up in North St Marys. Her parents came from England and her father found work as an engineer at the factory.

Footage from the Penrith Centenary procession in 1971.

Interview recorded with Charles Oxenham, 4 June 2010 at Penrith

Interview recorded with Claire Gledhill, 5 March 2009 at Penrith

Interview recorded with Colin Death, 6 May 2010 at Penrith Library

Footage contains artists impressions of the redevelopment of Penrith Plaza. The redevelopment will see the existing center extended across Riley Street at street level and connected by a retail overbridge to Level 1, providing closer links with the Penrith CBD and railway station.

This is the story of the march and its re-enactment in 1987.

Anniversary celebrations of Cuckson factory at St Marys