The Liverpool Asylum for the Infirm and Destitute was run by the New South Wales Government from 1862 until 1933. It had formerly been the Liverpool Asylum, run by the Benevolent Society. The Asylum provided refuge for men, including youths, described at the time as being “poor and infirm”. Those residents able to assist in…
Pallister Young People’s Unit and Special School was established in 1977 by the Church of England Deaconess Institution at Pallister House, in the grounds of Greenwich Hospital, Greenwich. The building, also known as Standish, had previously been a girls’ home known as Pallister House or Lisgar Trust. It closed in 1981.
Corelli Babies’ Home was opened around 1945 in Marrickville. It was a Child Welfare Department nursing home for around 20 toddlers. It was situated in a house called Corelli. Previously, it had been a Child Welfare Department home for unmarried mothers, (the Corelli Women’s Hospital). Around 1970 Corelli was converted to a hostel for older…
Yarra Bay House was established at Phillip Bay, at La Perouse, as an institution for children defined as handicapped by the State Children’s Relief Board in 1917. It was converted to La Perouse Training School for Girls in 1923.
Glenfield Park School is a residential special school opened in 1927 by the Department of Education. It is a boarding school that offers intensive support to students with emotional and behavioural needs.
Beverley Park Estate was a disability institution run by the New South Wales Society for Crippled Children. It officially opened in 1938 on a 30 acre property as a holiday and respite home. From the early 1940s Beverley Park was also operating as a children’s orthopaedic hospital, and in 1942 a school was opened on…
The Margaret Reid Orthopaedic Hospital for Crippled Children opened in 1937 at St Ives. It was a disability institution, a convalescent hospital and offered outpatients services. It the only specialist orthopaedic children’s hospital in Australia and took children from all over the country and Pacific nations. It closed in 1981. Margaret Reid Orthopaedic Hospital for…
The Warrah Rudolf Steiner School for Curative Education was established in 1969 in Dural. Students from the special school lived in a purpose-built 12 bedroom cottage known as Waratah. In 1969, Waratah housed 15 children, 6 adults and 10 co-workers [staff]. As well as the school, Warrah also had a biodynamic and organic farm. Over…
The School for Deaf Girls was founded in 1886 at Waratah, near Newcastle, by the Dominican Sisters. It was located in the Rosary Convent in Alfred Street. It was a residential school for deaf girls and was one of the first institutions of its kind and was founded by Sister M. Gabriel Hogan, deaf herself….
Rainbow Lodge was a children’s home at Hazelbrook operated by the Handicapped Children’s Centre of New South Wales from 1970. The building, located on the Great Western Highway, had previously been Haddon Hall. Rainbow Lodge was in the former Haddon Hall buildings. These had been owned by Japanese businessman and vice-consul Toransuki Kitamura, who had…
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