This online event will be held from 2:00pm on Friday 10 September 2021, and to complement the event, an online Football Photographic Exhibition to share the many photographs held by the library will be slowly released on Facebook.
"Side-Stepping Shrapnel' is a true story of the rise of Rugby League in the industrial country town of Lithgow between 1907 and 1921 and the impact of the Great War on the players. The book begins with William John 'Pummy' Mantle, the main protagonist, who was born in the shadow of the Lithgow Colliery. After an introduction to Pummy's family, the story moves to the birth of Rugby League in August 1907 and the role of Lithgow and surrounding towns at that particular time," said Peter Baker.
Check our Facebook page https://m.facebook.com/LithgowCouncilLibraries/ every day in September for a slow release exhibition of photographs and join us online for a Zoom Meeting at 2:00pm on Friday 10 September 2021 for our guest speaker event. To access this event you will need to have the Zoom App https://zoom.us/
