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The Metropolitan Girls’ Shelter was run as a shelter for girls awaiting hearings at the Metropolitan Children’s Court. It was also known as Glebe Girls Shelter and Metropolitan Girls’ Remand Centre. (1)
The shelter was erected in Avon Street, Glebe in 1925. It was on land attached to the Bidura Depot. It provided temporary shelter for 27 girls sometimes for up to a month. Activities for the girls while at Metropolitan Girls’ Shelter included sewing, reading, domestic work and on occasion an education officer was appointed. In 1977 the existing Bidura and Metropolitan Girls' Shelter site was redeveloped. (2)
Endnotes
1. Find & Connect website, http://www.findandconnect.gov.au/ (accessed 21 March 2014).
2. Brian Boyle, The Child Welfare Schools: recollections of these unique schools and the men and women who taught in them often under considerable difficulty. Unpublished typescript held by State Records Library, 1996, p.259.
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