Salvation Army Home for Wayward Girls, Bulleen

In 1880, two men, Gore and Saunders, met at an evangelical meeting held on the back of a dray in the Adelaide Botanical Gardens. They discovered that both had met and been influenced by William Booth, the founder of the Salvation Army, in London. They decided to ask Booth to form a branch of the Army in Australia.

In 1892 the Salvation Army opened a home for wayward girls in Bulleen at the corner of Thompsons and Manningham Roads.

1980 05 DTHS Newsletter


I think the Home for Wayward Girls in Bulleen you refer to may well be the Heidelberg Boy's Home which The Salvation Army opened late in 1892.
We have no record of a 'Bulleen Home for Wayward Girls'.
The boys were moved to Pakenham in late 1895, and the Home received the younger girls from the Brunswick Girls Home.
In November 1899 (at the end of the lease of the 36-acre property), the girls were moved to the newly opened Murumbeena Girls Home.
The "Home" some years later
Lindsay. Salvation Army.
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