Mount Gibraltar

Mount Gibraltar

Kiama St

Bowral

NSW

Australia

Provider: Sydney City Mission

Year Opened: 1930

Year Closed: 1974

 

The first residents were girls who had previously been cared for at “Lawson Cottage”, primarily, but not exclusively for the care of undernourished girls, the home housed girls under 12 years until 1936, after which time older girls were also taken into care.  The average stay was 13 – 18 weeks.

Photo courtesy of the Mitchell Library Collection, State Library of NSW.

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