The Country Women’s Association hostel, Tumut was opened around the 1940s. It was a boarding hostel for high school girls and closed around 1970.
The Country Women’s Association Hostel, Dubbo was opened by the Dubbo Country Women’s Association around 1945. It was a boarding hostel to help girls attend secondary school, and closed around 1958. Country Women’s Association Hostel, Dubbo was opened after a Country Women’s Association member, Mrs Matthew Robinson, donated a house in memory of her husband….
The Country Women’s Association hostel, Narrabri was opened in 1946. It was a boarding hostel for school girls. It increased the numbers at the local high school and enabled the school to be reclassified as a full high school. However, by 1958 transport in the area had improved to the extent that students felt they…
The Country Women’s Association Hostel at Inverell opened from 1925-1928 with CWA support, and an official Country Women’s Association hostel was opened in a better house in 1945. It was a hostel for school girls, most of whom boarded during the week and went home on weekends. The Country Women’s Association Hostel, Inverell closed in…
The Country Women’s Association Hostel, Mudgee was opened in 1945, with assistance from local service clubs. It was a hostel for girls who were attending secondary school in town. The Education Department took over the building, but the Country Women’s Association continued to administer it. Country Women’s Association Hostel, Mudgee closed in 1981.
St Clair Mission, located on the southern bank of Lake St Clair, between Muswellbrook and Singleton, was an Aboriginal mission that was established by Reverend JS White in 1893. In the late 1890s Retta Dixon, a Baptist missionary, moved to the Mission. In 1905 she formed the Aborigines Inland Mission and took formal control of…
Charlton Boys Home at Castle Hill was opened in 1960 by the Home Mission Society as an Anglican boys’ home. It closed in 1970 and the boys were moved to the new Charlton Boys’ Home site at Ashfield.
O’Brien House was a children’s home mentioned in a 1979 Commonwealth Government report called Why are they in children’s homes: report of the ACOSS children’s home intake survey. No more is known about this Home. If you have information about O’Brien House, please contact the Find & Connect web team using the ‘Contact Us’ button…
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….
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