Collection: Local Book

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

History of Victoria Park, St Marys seen through transcriptions of the Nepean Times newspaper

Sidney Woodward-Smith immigrated to Sydney, Australia in 1920 and from about 1928 his landscape paintings appeared in many important Sydney exhibitions. His work drew many of the leading art critics. The author is Dr William (Bill) Cammack, 30 Mulgoa Road Penrith (later 12 Vista Street Penrith)....

In the 1990's there was a need to create a new City Council administrative centre and a main library as well as linking these two areas with the Performing Arts Centre and the Plaza shopping centre. Of the twenty-two engineering firms who submitted a proposal, the structural design by Birzulis A...

WEST wants to celebrate the cultural diversity, food and individuality found within Western Sydney and Regional NSW. This volume has a chapter on North Penrith, with a focus on Thornton, the International Regatta Centre and bars and restaurants in the Penrith City area.