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Hostel

Type - Hostel
Bradfield Park Migrant Hostel
Cabramatta Migrant Hostel
Carters' Barracks
Dunmore Presbyterian Girl's Hostel
East Hills Migrant Workers' Hostel
Elsie
Emigrants Barracks
Hyde Park Barracks
1848 - 1886
St Michael's Hostel
Swanton Lodge
Travellers' Rest Inn Parramatta
Villawood Migrant Hostel

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Hostel

Bradfield Park Migrant Hostel

Migrant hostel established on a former RAAF training camp in Lindfield.

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Cabramatta Migrant Hostel

Hostel for immigrants, in Fairfield local government area, leading many Vietnamese to settle there since 1970s.

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Carters' Barracks

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Barracks on Pitt Street, running along what is close to contemporary Eddy Avenue, comprising several buildings built to house convict gangs working as carters on the brick fields. It was also used as a boys' barracks and, from 1835 to 1843, as a debtors' prison. Part of the complex was later used as a training facility for women, part of the women's refuge run by Sisters of the Good Shepherd. Another building was used as the Police Barracks. The buildings were demolished by 1901 to make way for Central Railway Station.

Dunmore Presbyterian Girl's Hostel

Residential home in Stanmore for country girls who had to come to Sydney to further their education.

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East Hills Migrant Workers' Hostel

Accommodation centre built at East Hills after World War II to house displaced persons and assisted migrants.

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Elsie

Nineteenth century cottage owned by the Anglican church which was converted for use as a refuge for women.

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Emigrants Barracks

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Timber huts on Bent Street opposite Phillip Street that housed government sponsored migrants on their arrival in Sydney between 1837 and the mid 1840s. Tents were also pitched to accommodate when large numbers of people arrived in ships. The Government Printing Office was also located in the same complex from January 1841. 

Hyde Park Barracks

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Georgian brick building at the southern end of Macquarie Street. Designed by colonial architect Francis Greenway to house male convicts, it subsequently became an immigration depot, government asylum, law courts and museum.

St Michael's Hostel

Hostel for the homeless on City Road Darlington. Since demolished to make way for student accommodation.

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Swanton Lodge

Hostel for the unemployed operated by Sydney City Mission.

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Travellers' Rest Inn Parramatta

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Georgian building at 16 O'Connell Street, on the corner of Hunter Street Parramatta. Erected as an inn it served many purposes over the centuries including use as a hostel for homeless men by the 1890s. With the two buildings at 12 and 14 O'Connell Street, it forms the Travellers Rest Inn Group.

Villawood Migrant Hostel

Accommodation for migrants established by the Commonwealth government after World War II. It was more recently converted to a detention centre for people awaiting deportation from Australia.

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