The Christ Church St Laurence Welfare Bureau ran after-care clinics and employment schemes to assist boys who had been through criminal hearings in the Children’s Court but were discharged. It was part of Christ Church St Laurence, an Anglo-Catholic (Anglican) Church based in Haymarket. It is thought to have operated between 1936 and around 1941.
Mangrove Mountain Crown Reserve for Homeless and Needy Young Persons was located at Mangrove Mountain near Gosford. It was on a site that formerly acommodated the Forest Farm Community, a project of the New South Wales Homeless Children’s Association in around 1983 and 1984. Wesley Mission (NSW) ran the Trust from 1990 until 2010. In…
The Homeless Children’s Association Refuge was located at 429 Liverpool Street, Darlinghurst. It was run by the New South Wales Homeless Children’s Association from May 1981 until July 1983. Also known as 429, it was a shelter for homeless children and youth and hundreds of young people passed through its doors. By July 1983, the…
Margaret Harris Hospital was built at North Parramatta in 1917 by Burnside Presbyterian Homes for Children as a hospital for children who were living in the Homes. It was later replaced by a larger building on Masons Drive, opposite the North Parramatta Burnside Homes. The last patient was discharged on 23 June 1982 and the…
Avona Hostel, in Glebe, was set up by the Anglican Home Mission Society in 1947. It was for boys aged 15 to 18 who had appeared before the Children’s Court and were described by the Home Mission Society as ‘neglected, homeless or unwanted.’ The hostel held 25 boys. Avona Hostel closed around 1962. Avona Hostel…
The Church Rescue Home was established in 1885 and run by a committee associated with the Church of England Temperance Society. It opened as a Home for the “rescue” of “intemperate”, “inebriate”, and “fallen” women (‘Church Home for the Intemperate and the Fallen’, published in The Sydney Morning Herald, 13 September 1884), including teenage girls….
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.
Tresillian, in Petersham, was the first ‘Infant Welfare Training School’ established in 1921 by the Royal Society for Mothers and Babies. It was located at ‘Tresillian’, a fine house in Shaw Street, Petersham. The house name became the name of the Royal Society for Mothers and Babies mothercraft facilities. Tresillian Petersham cared for up to…
Pallister Church of England Girls’ Home was a girls’ home run by the Church of England Deaconess Institution. It was formerly the Deaconess Children’s Home (or Agincourt) in Strathfield. In 1946, Pallister Church of England Girls Home moved to Greenwich. The new premises were a house called Standish, in the grounds of Greenwich Hospital, and…
Montrose Hostel, at Burwood, was established in the mid 1930s, in what had been Montrose Maternity Home. Run by the Child Welfare Department, it was a hostel for girls who were state wards. In 1949 Montrose changed its use to become Montrose Infants’ Home.
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