Stewart House, at Curl Curl, was opened in 1931. Since 1937 it has been run by a committee of the NSW Teachers’ Federation and is a short-term residential programme for New South Wales public school children. In 2013 Stewart House provides short-term respite care to 2,000 children a year. Stewart House runs a short-term residential…
The Sunshine Institute was founded in 1923 on the Pacific Highway at Gore Hill by Lorna Hodgkinson. It was a school and residential institution for children and adults with intellectual and other forms of disability. In 1951, the Sunshine Institute became the Lorna Hodgkinson Sunshine Home. The Sunshine Home was established by Dr Lorna Hodgkinson,…
The Lorna Hodgkinson Sunshine Home, on the Pacific Highway in Gore Hill, was the new name given in 1951 to what had been the Sunshine Institute. It was a residential institution for disabled children and adults. The Gore Hill facility may have closed around 1990, when it was replaced by a new facility at Pymble….
Church of England Homes was an agency of the Sydney Anglican Diocese that ran children’s homes in Sydney and the Blue Mountains. It was created around 1884 by Reverend TB Tress and Reverend Dr Manning, in Woolloomooloo, and grew to take in several committees that had operated in the Sydney area. Church of England Homes…
Legacy is a charity that supports the families of veterans of the Australian Armed Forces who have died or become incapacitated while on service, or subsequently. Legacy ran children’s homes across Australia. Legacy also referred widows and children to social services and to institutions. Sydney Legacy ran a number of Homes in New South Wales…
The Isabella Lazarus Children’s Home was a home for Jewish children at Hunters Hill that was founded in 1939. It was opened at the same time as the Sir Moses Montefiore Jewish Home, which ran the children’s home, and was located on the same property. It moved temporarily to Killara in 1942 then to Waverley…
The Female School of Industry was first established in Macquarie Street in Sydney, then moved to Darlinghurst Road around 1877. It finally moved to Petersham in 1903. It was a girls’ home and domestic training home for girls aged 4 to 14. It closed in 1926. The Female School of Industry was established by a…
Kippilaw, in Leura in the Blue Mountains, was established as a Junior Red Cross Home for girls in 1945. Kippilaw received girls from Juong Junior Red Cross Home and Shuna Red Cross Home in 1945 and 1946. Kippilaw closed in 1950 and the children were transferred to Berida. Kippilaw was a Red Cross convalescent home…
The Sydney Home for Babies was located at Waverley, in a large two-storey house on what was then called Nelson Bay Road and is now Bronte Road. Opened in February 1910 by Mrs Greig-Smith, founder of Sydney Norland Nurseries, it was ‘founded for the care of infants who are poor and whose mothers have to…
The Australian Protestant Orphans’ Society was established in 1909 by Dr Dill Macky. Macky established the Society ‘for the purpose of founding a Home for Protestant orphan children.’ The Society later ran the King Edward VII Home, Auburn and the Dill Macky Memorial Homes in Auburn and Strathfield. In 1928 its president was Mr A…
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