Please contact the Alice Springs Lutheran Archives, Finke River Mission Office: Address: Alice Springs Lutheran Archives, Old Lutheran Church, The Mission Block, 49 Gap Road, Alice Springs 0870 Phone: (08) 8952 4666 Email: admin@finkerivermission.org.au Website: http://finkerivermission.lca.org.au/
The Alice Springs Lutheran Archives is housed in the former Lutheran Church Building in Alice Springs. The Archives holds records relating to the history of the Lutheran Mission Block and Lutheran cottages on that site. These include photographs, oral history recordings, operational documents, church bulletins and lists of residents and their house parents. Volunteers are…
St Mary’s School, also known as St Mary’s Primary School, was the new name given to St Joseph’s School in 1958. It was run by the Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart and later came under the control of the Catholic Education Office, Diocese of Darwin. In the 1960s the school ceased to…
The Bindi Centre was opened in Alice Springs in 1976 as an activity centre for young people with intellectual disabilities from throughout the Northern Territory. In the 1980s the Bindi Centre extended its services to provide supported accommodation in two residential units. The Bindi Centre then became part of a larger program known as Central…
The Alice Springs Spastic Centre Family Group Home in Mills Street Alice Springs was opened by the Alice Springs Spastic Council in 1982. It accommodated 5 children with disabilities who lived with house parents. The Alice Springs Spastic Centre Family Group Home was closed after a fire. The date of this closure has not yet…
The Pine Creek Home, which had operated from 1931 to 1932, was reopened by the government in 1940 as a place for Aboriginal children who were being transferred from government institutions to various Missions. In late 1940, 70 children were in residence in the Home. Pine Creek Home only operated for a matter of months…
The Young Women’s Christian Association, YWCA, was established in Darwin in 1969. It became an incorporated body in 1977. The focus of the organisation was to provide accommodation for young people in need of shelter. The YWCA ran the Darwin Youth Refuge from 1978.
The Elcho Island Mission was established in 1921 by the Methodist Missionary Society of Australasia at Elcho Island. The Island is 550 km north-east of Darwin and is a part of the Wessel Island Group. Two years later in 1923, when oil drilling began on the island, the Mission was closed. The Elcho Island Mission…
Fox Crescent Cottage opened in Stuart Park in 1972. Run by Somerville Homes Incorporated it was the last of the six cottages which made up Somerville Cottage Homes. It accommodated up to eight children aged between 4 and 16 years under the supervision of cottage parents. The Cottage closed in 1974 and became a staff…
The United Church in North Australia had its roots in a multi-denominational congregation based in Darwin from 1946. In 1956 members of the Congregational, Methodist and Presbyterian churches moved to a shared church in Smith Street, Darwin and formed a United congregation. After their building was bombed during World War II, a new church was…
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