28 Nov 1975 – the Western Sydney Records Centre opened
The NSW State Archives officially opened the Western Sydney Records Centre (Stage 1) at Kingswood.
On opening, the new storage facility held around 27.5 shelf kilometres of State Archives.
Today, it houses 470km of records, including more than 90km of State archives: the largest collection documenting the history of NSW and the lives of its residents.
We look back at its evolution.
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