Dictionary of Sydney

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Shaftesbury Reformatory

Cottage-style reformatory for girls on South Head Road, Vaucluse.

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Milestone
Replaced
1880
Formed
05 Feb 1880
Dissolved
12 Apr 1904
Position
1880 - 1895
Property
Occupied
1880 - 1904
Type

Shaftesbury Reformatory

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In 1880, the Shaftesbury Reformatory for Girls opened in a converted old hotel building on New South Head Road, Vaucluse. Several other institutions including the Shaftesbury Institute for Destitute Inebriates and the Shaftesbury Home for Mothers and Babies took the reformatory's place over the following decades, until the buildings were demolished in 1930 and the land sold.