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Wayside Chapel, Kings Cross 1966

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Wayside Chapel, Kings Cross 1966

By

William (Bill) Brindle

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National Archives of Australia

[A1200, L54993]

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Brindle, William (Bill)

Bill Brindle was an official photographer with the Department of Information, later renamed the Australian News and Information Bureau, and then the Australian Information Service.

National Archives of Australia

Wayside Chapel

founded by Tedd Noffs, the Wayside Chapel has been a landmark in Kings Cross since 1963, helping locals and visitors and creating several organisations active in drug rehabilitation, life education and other social reform.

Community centres

Methodist

Religious building

Social welfare

Wayside Chapel

Chapel that pioneered outreach and support for Kings Cross's homeless, disadvantaged and drug-affected residents.

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Kings Cross

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In the nineteenth century one of Sydney's most prestigious suburbs, it became home to a vibrant bohemian community and later Sydney's red light district. Named for the intersection of Darlinghurst Road, William and Victoria Streets and once called Queens Cross, the area is now a neon lit mecca for tourists and Sydneysiders.

Potts Point

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Small, densely populated inner-eastern suburb, joined to Garden Island in 1942. It contains significant nineteenth-century buildings as well as some of Sydney's earliest apartment buildings in the Art Deco style. It includes the locality of Kings Cross.