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The Metropolitan Girls' Shelter at the rear of Bidura, Avon Street Glebe 1931

From the collections of the
State Library of New South Wales
[BN341]
(Truth (Sydney), 31 May, 1931, p1)

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State Library of New South Wales

Bidura

As the primary hub for child welfare in Sydney, Bidura is a place shared by members of the Stolen Generations and Forgotten Australians and is remembered by them with little fondness.

Child services

Children

Social welfare

Glebe

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Inner-city suburb named for its original status as Anglican church land granted to Richard Johnson, chaplain of the first fleet in 1790. The Glebe Point area became fashionable in the nineteenth century, while the southern part of Glebe became a working class district.

Bidura

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Two storey Victorian house with a former ballroom and large formal garden which was once one among many grand estates along Glebe Point road. From the 1920s the house was used as a girls' home and children's court whilst a remand centre was constructed at the rear in 1980 to facilitate the operation of Bidura Children's Court. It was sold for residential development in 2014.

Metropolitan Girls' Shelter, Glebe

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Government receiving home and shelter for girls awaiting court hearings. Treatment and discipline were harsh and frightening for the girls assigned there. The terrace building in which it was housed was demolished in 1978.