Margaret Marr Memorial Home for Boys, in Wynnum, was operated by the Methodist Church. It officially opened 1 March 1924. State children were first admitted in 1937. Margaret Marr surrendered its license in 1973 when four Family Group Homes, situated on the same parcel of land, opened. In 1921, the Queen Alexandra Home was nearing…
Lewis Cottage Family Group Home, in Wynnum North, was operated by the Methodist and Uniting Churches. It opened 14 October 1967 and was licensed 7 December 1967. It was run by the Methodist Church until 1977, when operation was transferred to the newly-created Uniting Church. Its funding ceased 21 December 1988. The Lewis Cottage Family…
Lahey Cottage Family Group Home, in Wynnum North, was operated by the Methodist and Uniting Churches. It opened and was licensed 6 July 1973. It transferred to the Uniting Church 22 June 1977 and closed in 1985. The Lahey Cottage Family Group Home was situated behind the Margaret Marr Memorial Home for Boys, adjacent to…
Kingsbury Cottage Family Group Home, in Bardon, opened around August/September 1960. Originally run by the Methodist Church, its operation was transferred to the newly-created Uniting Church in June 1977. In 2014, Kingsbury was an emergency residential home for young people aged 12 – 17 years. It is unknown exactly when Kingsbury group home closed, however…
Harrison Cottage Family Group Home, in Aspley, was operated by the Methodist and Uniting Churches. It opened 1 September 1960 and was licensed under The State Children Act 27 October 1960. Subsequently it was licensed under The Children’s Services Act 4 August 1966. In June 1977, management was transferred to the newly-formed Uniting Church. The…
Dahler Family Group Home, in Drayton, Toowoomba, was officially opened 27 September 1975. It was operated by the Methodist Church until June 1977, when operations were transferred to the Uniting Church. Dahler Family Group Home closed 30 June 1988. Dahler Family Group Home opened as a Receiving, Assessment, Placement and Therapy residential in August 1995….
Alexandra Cottage was a family group home situated at 50 Lorward Street, Bardon. It opened in September 1960, and was run by the Methodist Church until 1977, when the Uniting Church took over the running of the Home. Alexandra Cottage closed in 1993.
The Methodist Department of Social Services was the social welfare arm of the Methodist Church. Its work evolved from the Methodist Missions at Leichhardt, Paddington, Balmain and the Central Methodist Mission. It ran Iandra at Grenfell and Heighway House at Drummoyne and Thornleigh. According to Reverend Harry Herbert, the Methodist Church’s first Director of Social…
Crusaders Camp Mission Hostel at Otford, near Sydney’s Royal National Park, was used by the Church Missionary Society in 1942 to house 98 Aboriginal children who had been evacuated from Croker Island, north of Darwin in the Northern Territory. The evacuees, who were accompanied by the Croker Island Mission staff, were wards of the Commonwealth…
The Iandra Methodist Rural Centre was at Iandra Castle at Greenthorpe, near Cowra. It was a training farm for boys aged 15 to 18 years who were first offenders and opened in 1956. In the first five years, over 50 young men lived there. Iandra was run by the Methodist Church’s Department of Christian Citizenship…
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