Scarba Welfare House for Children
Bondi History
The first 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 this still stately mansion has been sucked into the new Mirvac development on Wellington Street.
__________________
Archival photos courtesy Waverley Library Local History Image Collection
