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Official opening of Hammond's Hotel, November 1930

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(Sydney Morning Herald, 26 November 1930, p18 via Trove)

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Hammond, Robert Brodribb Stewart St Barnabas' Anglican Church Broadway
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Game, Philip Hammond, RBS
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Hammond Hotel

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Hammond, Robert Brodribb Stewart

One of the best-known clergymen in Sydney during the first half of the twentieth century, RBS Hammond was a passionate advocate of temperance and 'practical Christianity'. His philanthropic endeavours, involving housing, feeding and finding employment for the poor, survived him in the suburb of Hammondville, and the institution of HammondCare.

St Barnabas' Anglican Church Broadway

St Barnabas' Anglican Church on Broadway, known to many as Barney's, has a long tradition of ministry to the diverse communities of the inner city. The congregation was boosted by the arrival of Reverend RBS Hammond in 1918 and his energetic ministry to disadvantaged people and in the cause of temperance. St Barnabas' also became important to students attending Sydney University and the University of Technology. In the 1990s the publican of the Broadway Hotel began a notice-board repartee with Reverend Robert Forsyth that became famous. St Barnabas' burned down in 2006 but was rebuilt and reopened in 2012.

Anglican

Social welfare

1930s Depression

Game, Philip

British soldier and air force officer who was Governor of New South Wales during the turbulent Depression years, and took action to dismiss Premier Jack Lang in 1932.

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Hammond, RBS

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Anglican minister who worked with drunks and the poor, and founded a number of charitable enterprises aimed at rehabilitating the destitute of Sydney.

Hammond Hotel

Charity organisation established by RBS Hammond to feed and house the homeless and unemployed. The first in Newtown was followed by five others in the surrounding suburbs, often in disused warehouses.

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