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New South Wales - Organisation
Metropolitan Boys' Shelter (1911 - 1983)
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Boys' Shelter, Children's Court, Sydney, c. 1912, courtesy of .
DETAILS
- From
- 1911
- To
- 1983
- Categories
- Children's Home, Government-run, Home, Receiving Home
- Alternative Names
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- Metropolitan Boys' Remand Home
- Albion Street Shelter
The Metropolitan Boys' Shelter was established as part of the Children's Court at Albion Street, Surry Hills in 1911. It was a remand home and shelter for boys who were awaiting Children's Court hearings. In 1974 boys aged 18 to 20 were transferred to Minda. The Children's Court and the Metropolitan Boys' Shelter closed in 1983.
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The Shelter was established at The Children's Court on the corner of Albion and Commonwealth Streets, Surry Hills, in 1911. Although the instigator of the Children's Court, Sir Charles K Mackellar, had great hopes that the new court would be airy and light and would reflect the humane intention of the new policies. However the Albion Street building, designed by Government Architect Walter Liberty Vernon, was much the same as other New South Wales Government courthouses. It was attractive on the outside, but gloomy inside. Mackellar was upset that there was no space for children awaiting court hearings to be separated from adults who were being tried in the court for offences against children that ranged from desertion to neglect and abuse.
The accommodation for the boys, which was under the building, was noted to be particularly unsuitable for reformative purposes.
The courthouse and the shelter closed in 1983. The buildings are now used by a range of social services providers.
Locations
- 1911 - 1983
- Location - Metropolitan Boys' Shelter was situated on the corner of Commonwealth Street and Albion Street, Surry Hills
- Series Title
- Metropolitan Boys' Shelter, Albion Street, Sydney. Institutional files ([I] "B"files) (1963 - 1973)
- Date Range
- 1963 - 1973
- Reference
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RNCG-5042
[State Records Authority of New South Wales Series Number]
- Contact
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Please contact the The Open Government, Information and Privacy Unit, Department of Communities and Justice:
Postal Address: Locked Bag 5000, Parramatta NSW 2124
Phone: (02) 9716 2662
Email: infoandprivacy@dcj.nsw.gov.au
Website: https://www.dcj.nsw.gov.au/about-us/gipa/right-to-information-policy.html
DETAILS
- Item Title
- Bruce Callaghan interviewed by Gail Winkworth in the Children and the State oral history project [sound recording] (2009)
- Date Range
- 2009 - 2009
- Reference
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4727568
[National Library of Australia Bib ID]
- Contact
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Please contact a Librarian at Reader Services, National Library of Australia:
Postal address: National Library of Australia, Canberra ACT 2600
Phone: (02) 6262 1266
Website: http://www.nla.gov.au/askalibrarian/
DETAILS
- Collection Title
- Records held by Bidura Children's Court (1912 - )
- Date Range
- 1912 -
- Reference
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- Contact
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Please contact the Clerk, Surry Hills Children's Court:
Street Address: Surry Hills Children's Court, 66-78 Albion Street, Surry Hills NSW 2010
Postal Address: PO Box K303, Haymarket NSW 2010
Phone: (02) 8667 2100
Fax: (02) 8667 2130
Email: cc-Surry-Hills@justice.nsw.gov.au
DETAILS
- Collection Title
- Departmental Records relating to State Wards, New South Wales (1881 - 1983)
- Date Range
- 1881 - 1983
- Reference
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- Contact
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Please contact the Care Leaver Records Access Unit, Community Services:
Address: Care Leaver Records Access Unit, Community Services, Department of Communities and Justice, Locked Bag 5000, Parramatta NSW 2150
Phone: 1300 137 160 or (02) 9716 2500
Email: CareLeaverRecordsAccessUnit@facs.nsw.gov.au
Website: https://www.facs.nsw.gov.au/families/out-of-home-care/about-out-of-home-care/were-you-in-out-of-home-care
DETAILS
- Series Title
- School Files (1876 - 1979)
- Date Range
- 1876 - 1979
- Reference
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NRS-3829
[State Records Authority of New South Wales Series Number]
- Contact
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Please contact the State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales:
Postal Address: PO Box 516, Kingswood NSW 2747
Phone: (02) 9673 1788
Email: info@records.nsw.gov.au
Website: http://www.records.nsw.gov.au/contact-us/contact-us/
DETAILS
- Series Title
- Depositions [Metropolitan Children's Court] (1937 - 1941)
- Date Range
- 1937 - 1941
- Reference
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3420
[State Records Authority of New South Wales Series Number]
- Contact
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Please contact the The Open Government, Information and Privacy Unit, Department of Communities and Justice:
Postal Address: Locked Bag 5000, Parramatta NSW 2124
Phone: (02) 9716 2662
Email: infoandprivacy@dcj.nsw.gov.au
Website: https://www.dcj.nsw.gov.au/about-us/gipa/right-to-information-policy.html
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Boys' Shelter, Children's Court, Sydney
Children's Court, Sydney