The Bartrop family slides relating to the Aborigines Inland Mission, 1909-1930s, 1945-1950, 1971 are held by the Mitchell Library. Ben Bartrop was the secretary of the first Aborigines Inland Mission meeting in 1905. According to the catalogue description, this collection contains: 14 slides, 52 transparencies: and 1 roll of film. Access Conditions Access is by…
The Aborigines Inland Mission [AIM] Bible Training College was located at Minimbah 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…
Australian Indigenous Ministries is the modern name of the Aborigines Inland Mission. The name change occurred in 1998. In 2014 it is not directly involved in caring for children and it appears that its historical records and photographic collections were donated to the State Library of New South Wales between 2000 and 2010.
The Native Workers’ Training College was established as a Protestant ministry training school for Aboriginal people by the Aborigines Inland Mission (AIM) at Pindimar, near Port Stephens, in 1938. The College was evacuated during World War II and operated in rented premises in Dalwood. In 1946 it moved to Minimbah House, Whittingham. It took Aboriginal…
The Aborigines Inland Mission (AIM) was an Evangelical Baptist missionary organisation established by Retta Dixon in 1905. The AIM and its staff ran the St Clair Mission, the Singleton Home, the Native Workers’ Training College and the Singleton Bible Training Institute in New South Wales, as well as the Phillip Creek Mission and the Retta…
This archival collection titled Sydney City Mission records, 1862-1983, including minute books and historical papers, held by the State Library of New South Wales contains records dated from 1862 to 1983 relating to Sydney City Mission. Access Conditions The Sydney City Mission records are held at the State Library of New South Wales. People wishing…
Records of children’s homes and facilities run by Mission Australia are in the control of Mission Australia. Mission Australia may hold some later records of homes that were run by Sydney City Mission. Requests for material should be sent to the General Counsel, Mission Australia.
The Special School for Multi-Handicapped Blind Children was set up by the Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children in 1974 at North Rocks. It was a school with medical, therapeutic and residential facilities for children with a range of disabilities and was extended in 1980. It operated until 1990, when it became the Alice…
Cottee Lodge, in Ashfield, was set up by the Wesley Central Mission in around 1986 as a residential service to help homeless youth. In 2014 it appears this service has become an independent living programme, run by Wesley Mission. Cottee Lodge was established in a former convent, run by German nuns, which had 18 rooms…
The Deaf and Dumb Institution, founded in 1860, was renamed the New South Wales Institution for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind in 1868. It was a public institution for the education of deaf and blind children and had a residential facility for school-aged children. Initially based at Ormond House (Juniper Hall) in Paddington, the Institution…
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