Orana Group Home was opened in 1970 at Wahroonga. It was run by the Church of England Homes as a home for children. It closed in February 1977.
Havilah Little Children’s Home was established in a house called Havilah in Hinemoa Road, Normanhurst (also referred to as Wahroona) in 1918 by the Church of England Diocese of Sydney. It was a home for infant children aged under six years. Havilah Little Children’s Home was established by the Homes and Hostels Committee for Children,…
The Church of England Girls’ Home was opened by the Church of England Homes in Carlingford in 1928. It was located in the same buildings, Minden and No. 2 Home (which was renamed the Tress-Manning Home in 1929), that had previously operated as the Church of England Boys’ Home. It was a Home for girls…
The Church of England Boys’ Home was for boys aged 3 to 18 years. It was established by Church of England Homes in 1918 in a rented house in Cronulla, before moving in 1920 to Carlingford occupying the building ‘Minden’ at 216 Pennant Hills Road, the site that had previously housed the Carlingford Children’s Home….
Kingsbury Farm Reformatory was a training farm for Protestant boys that opened in Newstead in April 1893. It was operated on the ‘family system’, run by a married couple, and had capacity for six boys. Boys were sent to Kingsbury from other reformatories in order to learn practical farm skills, such as land clearing, dam-making,…
St John’s by the Sea, in Beach Road, Sandringham, was a cottage-style Home for 20 boys. It was run by St John’s Home for Boys. It opened in 1951, was still open in 1954, and possibly closed in 1958. The residents of St John’s by the Sea included child migrants from Britain. The Home was…
South Yarra Hostel was established in a vacant building on the Methodist Babies’ Home site. Run by Wesley Central Mission it was described as a ‘supportive hostel for young people’. The Mission closed down South Yarra Hostel in February 1982. The hostel’s residents were taken on as clients by the Richmond Fellowship of Victoria (a…
Wandin Yallock Reformatory School, or ‘Fernydale’, was opened in 1886 as a private reformatory for boys. Fernydale was established to reform ‘juvenile offenders’ by providing them with farm training. In 1893 Fernydale was proclaimed a reformatory under the Juvenile Offenders Act 1887 and received boys from the government reformatory which closed in April of that…
The Training Home for Girls was established in around 1880, as an institution where young women received training to become domestic servants. Originally, it was known as the Servants’ Training Institute. The Training Home for Girls was located in Berry Street, East Melbourne (Jolimont). It was run by a committee of management with links to…
Uniting (Victoria and Tasmania) Limited was formed in July 2017 and is the community services organisation of the Uniting Church of Australia in Victoria and Tasmania. At its establishment Uniting brought together 24 founding agencies, including 21 UnitingCare agencies and Wesley Mission Victoria. The Uniting Heritage Service is for people (and their family members) who…
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