Scarba Welfare House for Children
Bondi History
The top photograph from 1912 depicts a Mr Lowenthal and friends playing lawn bowls in the gardens of his late Victorian ‘boom style’ Scarba House on Wellington Street, prior to it becoming a community services centre.
Run by the Benevolent Society, Scarba Welfare House for Children provided emergency care to 0 to 8 year olds from 1917 until 1986.
These days you need a hard hat to visit this still stately mansion as it seems to have been sucked into the new Mirvac development on Wellington Street.
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Archival photos courtesy Waverley Library Local History Image Collection
