Old Sydney

1950s36 photos

Police Boys Club, 19521952South Waratah Methodist Church kindergarten hall, 19521952June Dally Watkins Modelling School, Sydney, ca. 1952 - photonegative by Peter Godwin, c. 1952c. 19521952 - First Ukrainian school in Australia - children with teachers at the YMCA Pitt St Sydney19521952 - First Ukrainian school in Australia - with Father Kopiakivsky & teachers at the YMCA Pitt St Sydney1952June Dally Watkins Modelling School, Sydney, ca. 1952 - photonegative by Peter Godwin (cropped), c. 1952c. 1952New Baby Health Centre Merewether, 19531953Moreton Bay figtree in grounds of Star of Sea Convent school to disappear, 19541954Mr Heffron at Toronto School, 19541954Opening of scouts rooms Hunter Street Newcastle, 19541954Opening of Subnormal Childrens School at Waratah by Lord Mayor Alderman FJ Purdue, 19541954Waratah new Catholic church and school buildings, 19541954Belmont Crippled Childrens Home, 19551955Childrens Library, 19551955Childrens Library, 19551955Childrens Library, 19551955Damaged gates at entrance to Gregson Park Hamilton Hamilton school in background, 19551955Dedication and presentation of colours Australian Girls Marching Association, 19551955New Marist Brothers school, 19551955New school Waratah West opened by Mr Heffron, 19551955Margaret Barr's "Strange Children" (ballet), 1955 - photographer unknown1955Young boy with dinky in car workshop while his father (?) services a car, Bondi, 6 October 1955 - Ern McQuillan, 1955?1955?New school Waratah West opened by Mr Heffron (cropped and cleaned), 19551955Booragul High School under construction, 19561956Grid iron players with Tivoli girls, 19561956Junior High School, 19561956Lord Mayor opens Crippled Childrens Appeal, 19561956Mr Denham at Boys High School, 19561956Mr Hawkins Minister for Social Welfare and Child Welfare visits King Edward Home for Children, 19561956New Wallsend Baby Health Centre off Cowper Street Wallsend Park, 19561956The Governor LieutenantGeneral Sir John Northcott at Junction Public School, 19561956Windale School canteen, 19561956Dr TR Oliver Head of Dept of Speech at Pennsylvania Univ USA at Teachers College, 19571957Opening of Catholic school Broadmeadow by Bishop of Maitland, 19571957Safety first photos. School girls calling to one another as train moves out of station, c. 1958c. 1958Aerial View of Bass Hill, 19581958

1960s1 photo

University of Sydney Commem Day procession, Old Medical School, 5 May 1965 - photographer Jack Hickson, Australian Photographic Agency1965

1970s4 photos

Binishell, School model, c. 1974c. 1974Binishell, School model, c. 1974c. 1974Binishell, 19751975Gough Whitlam visits the polling booth for the 1977 Federal Election at Campbelltown Primary School1977

1980s1 photo

Binishell, Pittwater High School, c. 1986c. 1986

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702 historic photos for Schools and children, taken between 1825 and 1986, gathered from across the suburbs by what their catalogue titles say. They span 14 decades, with the most from the 1930s (337). They come from Wikimedia Commons; each photo’s page gives its credit, its licence and a link to its original record.