Collection: Local Book

This is a booklist to help patrons and staff find books on important and frequently sought after topics. This booklist was completed in November 1992 and has the most relevant books used at that time.

Tench Reserve riparian corridor is located on the eastern shoreline of the Nepean River. It has special significance as the place where Captain Watkin Tench and his party in 1789 first sighted the river. The Reserve was gazetted on 10 February 1984.

The life story of convict bushranger Bold Jack Donohoe (the Wild Colonial Boy) and the early history of bushranging in the colony of NSW. His capture is recorded in the Sydney Gazette on 7 September 1830

This resource, part of a joint Heritage Project for primary schools, was written to support the unit of work - It didn't always look like this. The accompanying leaflet is located in the Castlereagh Files in the local studies vertical file collection