Pictures to the Editor, 14 March 1946, courtesy of National Library of Australia.
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The Methodist Hostel for Boys was established in 1946 by the Home Missions Department of the Methodist Church as a hostel for boys going to high school in Albany. It was known as 'Norman House' after Mr John Norman who was a member of the Methodist Conference in recognition of what was described as his 'untiring, unfailing work for the youth of Albany'. In 1962, the Methodist Hostel for Boys moved to premises at the old Government Hospital in Albany where it possibly remained until 1972.
Sources used to compile this entry: 'Hostel for Boys', Albany Advertiser, 15 October 1945, p. 2, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article70503288; 'Norman House', Albany Advertiser, 21 February 1946, p. 5, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article70502596; City of Albany, Municipal Heritage Inventory - Inner Albany Areas P-Z, 2000, https://www.albany.wa.gov.au/documents/93/municipal-heritage-inventory-inner-albany-areas-p-z. Norman House and Magnolia Tree; Former Hospital-Vancouver Arts Centre..
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