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[BTI] Singleton, interior [showing two students cleaning the banister], c. 1953 - c. 1971, courtesy of State Library of New South Wales.
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The Aborigines Inland Mission [AIM] Bible Training College was located in Mirimbah House, Whittingham, near Singleton. It was the new name for the Native Workers' Training College, which was a Baptist ministry training school for teenage and young Aboriginal people from all over Australia. The name change marked a shift from being Baptist to being non-denominational. It closed in 1973.
1938 - 1953 Native Workers' Training College
1953 - 1973 Aborigines Inland Mission Bible Training College
Sources used to compile this entry: 119B Minimbah Road Whittingham NSW 2330, realestate.com.au, 21 March 2013, http://www.realestate.com.au/property-house-nsw-whittingham-111418687; 'Minimbah House and Outbuildings', in State Heritage Register, NSW Office of Environment and Heritage, 2000-2010, https://www.hms.heritage.nsw.gov.au/App/Item/ViewItem?itemId=14293; Radi, Heather, 'Long, Margaret Jane (Retta) (1878-1956)', in Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/long-margaret-jane-retta-10857.
Prepared by: Naomi Parry
Created: 15 May 2014, Last modified: 19 June 2014
Last updated: 4 August 2023
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