Resource centre & meeting rooms

Our resource centre/library and meeting rooms are in the Ewen Smith Memorial Hall situated on the corner of Tank & Donald/Guy Sts in Lithgow. 

Street view on Google maps:  http://g.co/maps/gwy8

Opening hours

Tuesday 6—9pm

Friday 10am—4pm

1st Saturday of the month (except on long weekends) 10am—4pm

Guidelines for use of our centre:

Limits are enforced on personal articles and items that may be taken into the Lithgow & District Family Society Inc Resource Centre.

Lockers are provided for the secure storage of personal articles, including handbags and other bags, larger folders, scanners.

The following items may be taken into the Resource Centre: 

• Lead pencils 

• Pad of paper, loose paper, A4 and other bound notebooks

• Spectacles and spectacle case

• Laptop computer without the bag. Must operate on battery power. No mains power connection provided due to OH&S requirements.

• Digital camera. Use is allowed subject to Copyright or Deed of Gift not being breached.

Digital scanning of records is not allowed.

Phone number (during library hours)

+61 (02) 6353 1089

Postal Inquiries

Please send all postal inquiries to:

The Secretary

LDFHS Inc

PO Box 516

Lithgow 2790

(Please include a large SAE)

Research Inquiry

To download a research inquiry form click here.

Email: ldfhs@nospam.lisp.com.au

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Graveside Flower Service

We provide a graveside flower service. Click here for further details.

Membership 

To download a membership form click here. 

Credit Card Authority

To download a credit card authority form click here

Lithgow, the Australia & NSW 2011 Tidy Towns Award winner

Cemetery Walk

A Cemetery Walk to remember our returned soldiers was held on 29 April in beautiful weather. We started with morning tea and Anzac biscuits made by Cecily McCarten followed by a short discussion and the playing of the Last Post. Each participant was given a map showing the graves of 12 returned servicemen marked on it and we then visited each grave where the war history of each person was read out and a card with rosemary and a poppy placed on the grave. Sandra Haley was able to place the card on the grave of her father, Alfred Piggott and Cecily McCarten on the grave of her grandfather, Cecil Ford.

Click on the photos of Cecily, Sandra and Helen Taylor reading one of the histories for a larger version.

Members of The Lithgow & District Family History Society Inc. have recently completed a Pioneer Wall Hanging depicting those ancestors who arrived in the colony between 1788 and 1888. Members took a square of material and designed, embroidered or sketched details of their ancestors' arrival onto it and they were then placed together into a large wall hanging by Margaret Buckley and Sandra Haley. Graham and Lynn Hudson from Portland did the quilting. The idea for the wall hanging came from local member Velma McFadden. For more photos of the wall hanging click here