This is an image of the Vickery Home, or Vickery Cottage, at the Church of England Boys’ Home, Carlingford. It shows a white rendered single-storey cottage with a tile roof and two chimneys surrounded by lawn and a few small shrubs. The cottage has a small central front verandah which is framed by thin white…
The Register of Admissions and Discharges for Grosvenor Hospital contains information about patients at the Hospital, most of whom were under 10 years old when they were at the Hospital. The register contains the following information: date of admission and of previous admission (if any); patient number; name; sex; age; marital status; occupation; place of…
This is an image of the Boys’ Hostel at the Church of England Boys’ Home, Carlingford. The Hostel was previously the rectory connected with St Paul’s Church, and was also known as the James Stuart Memorial Hostel. The image shows a large two-storey white weatherboard house with a red roof, with a large eucalyptus tree…
These two images are building plans for the Church of England Boys’ Home site at 756 Pennant Hills Road. The top image shows a sketch of the front of a single-storey cottage accompanied by an inset floor-plan of the building. The lower image is a plan of the whole site. It shows a curved line…
This is a photo of the building known as ‘Minden’, or sometimes ‘Strathmore’, at Carlingford. It shows a large two-storey building with ornate wrought-iron verandahs circling the top floor. The building was initially used by the Church of England as a home for ‘delicate’ children, then from 1918 it became the Boys’ Home, and from…
Arden Girls’ Home was opened by the Church of England Homes on 5th August 1919 at Forsyth Street, Glebe. It was both a girls home, as well as administrative headquarters for the Church of England’s management of its other Homes on the opposite side of Forsyth Street (Avona Girls’ Home, Tress-Manning Girls’ Training Home, Strathmore…
This is a photo of Arden Girls’ Home at Glebe. It shows a large two-storey stone building directly next to a smaller single-storey cottage with a glassed-in front verandah. There are several small statues in front of the larger building. This photo is undated, the date included is an estimate.
Strathmore Girls’ Home was opened on 8th February 1923 by the Church of England Homes at Glebe in a building that had previously been used as the Church Rescue Home for women. Strathmore was on the same site as the Avona Girls’ Home and the Tress Manning Girl’s Training Home. Strathmore had capacity for 50…
This is a photograph of the building known as Strathmore at Glebe. It shows a large three-storey stone building with a small front portico in the middle of a lower-storey verandah. The sides of the verandah appear to have been partially enclosed, potentially for use as additional rooms. Strathmore was bought by the Church of…
This is sketch of Strathmore at Glebe. It shows a grand three-storey stone building on top of a small hill. The first two floors of the building have verandahs, and the third is slightly smaller with large windows overlooking the grounds of the Strathmore estate.
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