The Dictionary of Sydney was archived in 2021.
Girls home and training school established in 1826 on Macquarie Street to train girls as domestic workers. The school also provided instruction in reading, writing, arithmetic, spinning, knitting and housework. The school moved to Darlinghurst in the 1870s and then to Petersham in 1903 before closing in 1926. The Macquarie Street site is now occupied by the State Library of NSW.
