The Church of England Home for Girls, also known as Avona, was opened in 1904 at Glebe, on a site next to the Church Rescue Home (Strathmore). It had capacity for approximately 60 girls. Avona was opened to provide an alternative to housing young girls with older women at Strathmore, as the committee running the…
The Church of England Training Home for Girls opened on the 9th August 1909 as a Home for girls between the ages of 14 and 16. The Home, also known as the Tress-Manning Home, was built at Forsyth Street, Glebe, on a site between the Church Rescue Home for Women (Strathmore) and the Church of…
Terrigal Holiday Home, also known as Spurway Holiday House, was a holiday home for boys from the Church of England Boys Home, Carlingford. The home at Terrigal (also sometimes referred to as Wamberal) was donated to the Boys Home in 1942. In 2022 the Home was still owned by the Church of England, however it…
Warrawillah Seaside Holiday Home for Girls was opened by Church of England Homes at Collaroy on the 6th October 1956. It was used to provide holidays to girls living at the Church of England Girl’s Home at Carlingford. Warrawillah closed in 1976 due to the poor condition of the building, and the effects of beach…
Kingsleigh Group Home was a family group home opened by the Anglican Home Mission Society at St Ives in 1975. It closed in February 1977, and the children living there were returned to their parents. From 1978 the Kingsleigh name was re-used for another family group home operated by the Anglican Home Mission Society at…
Carinya Girls’ Hostel was established by the Anglican Home Mission Society at Hurstville on 29th February 1976. It was a hostel for up to eight girls, aged 14 to 16 years old, who had been before the Courts and released on probation. It was intended to be an alternative to the larger more institutional youth…
The Canossian Daughters of Charity is a Catholic order founded in Italy in 1808. They first came to Australian in 1949, and arrived in Darwin in 1970 with the purpose of establishing a residential children’s home – Bakhita Village. They ran the children’s home from 1972 until late December 1974, when it was destroyed by…
The Salvation Army Maternity Home opened at Charters Towers in September 1898. It was located in a large house owned by Mr Tubbs on Gordon Street, at Richmond Hill. It had capcity for 7 women and 9 babies. Women staying at the home were expected to do sewing work to help supplement the home’s income….
Bakhita Village was opened in the Darwin suburb of Coconut Grove in January 1972 by the Canossian Daughters of Charity, a Catholic order from Italy. It was a small complex of five family-style homes that provided long and short term residential care for children. Bakhita Village was open for just short of three years before…
St Mary’s Home, Rockhampton, was opened in 1907 at “The Range”, Jessie Street, as a Home for unmarried mothers and their babies. It was run by a committee of the Anglican Diocese of Rockhampton, although the home accepted women of any denomination. Initially women were expected to stay at the home for at least eight…
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