The Uniting Church Community Services Opportunity Shop has given help towards modifying a local house to be used for day care for Alzheimer Disease sufferers. The house bought by Strathdon will be known as Strathdon Community Care Centre. The opportunity shop is calling for help to keep the shop running.The Uniting Church Community Services Opportunity Shop has given help towards modifying a local house to be used for day care for Alzheimer Disease sufferers. community services, uniting church community services opportunity shop, strathdon community, bain, jean, toby, anne, best, bill

Alzheimer's is not a normal sign of ageing, it's a disease which does not discriminate. It cuts across every nationality and culture, every social group. Article describes Strathdon Community's Day care Centre.Alzheimer's is not a normal sign of ageing, it's a disease which does not discriminate. It cuts across every nationality and culture, every social group. aged people, strathdon community, houlihan, rosemary, eversteyn, rita, alzheimers disease

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Caulfield Community Care Centre, volunteers newsletter dated 1/1994. With written article by Kelvin Hughes on recollections of Royston. A handwritten compliments slip to the secretary of Caulfield Historical Society, from Caulfield Citizens’ Advice Bureau, and Caulfield Community Care Centre. A two page photo copy of recollections of Royston, written by Kelvin Hughes, and from the Community Cares Centre Jan/1994 from the newsletter. Also includes a handwritten and drawn plain of the ground & upper floor from the Caulfield Citizens Advice Bureau concerning the Newsletter. Also included is an unsigned undated ref to Royston as the home of James Mirams, until 1888 and to Land Boom and Bustly Michael Cannon.royston, slatter enid, hughes kelvin, kooyong road, caulfield general, calvin barbara, caulfield community, medical centre, mirams james, care centre, caulfield citizens, caulfield, slatter daisy, advice bureau, cannon. michael

In this interview we hear from Don and Bobbie Hayes who met and were married in Beechworth. Mrs Hayes was born in Beechworth to a blacksmith and a teacher who had moved to the area not long before she was born in 1925. She discusses her family and the struggle her mother had being a city woman relocated to the bush and into a family who didn't accept her for her Methodist religious beliefs as they were a staunch Catholic family. After working in the Tannery when they first moved to Beechworth from Melbourne, Don got a job in the 1950's at the Beechworth Mental hospital known as Mayday Hills (est. 1862) and continued working there for the next thirty six years. Starting as a nurse Don would be one of three or four staff known then as attendants, who would oversee up to forty patients in a ward taking them out to work the land and gardens or chop wood on the grounds. Mrs Hayes also worked in the Hospital and discusses the need at the time to be earning to pay for large medical bills that came from two of their children, one having a congenital heart problem which was not covered by hospital benefits and the other displaced hips that required surgery. By the end of his time working at the hospital, Don was in charge of the patient training centre where those destined for discharge would be trained on how to cope in the world outside of the hospital grounds they were so used to. Both talk openly and with heartfelt candour, recalling their years spent among the patients of the hospital community, their sense of humour and compassion are evident and although the times and the jobs were definitely hard and the wages low, this couple cared deeply about the people they worked with and sit among those people from the local area who established Beechworth as a significant social welfare region. This oral history recording was part of a project conducted by Jennifer Williams in the year 2000 to capture the everyday life and struggles in Beechworth during the twentieth century. This project involved recording seventy oral histories on cassette tapes of local Beechworth residents which were then published in a book titled: Listen to what they say: voices of twentieth century Beechworth. These cassette tapes were digitised in July 2021 with funds made available by the Friends of the Burke.The significance of this oral history lies in the firsthand accounts from two people who were directly involved in the significant nursing work undertaken at Mayday Hills Mental hospital from the 1950's. Hearing the stories from those who were there and had lived experience, adds depth and we gain valuable insight into how and what the asylum was like for those who worked there and colourful details about the kinds of patients they encountered too, it adds human and personal context to what could otherwise become statistic and abstract information about a historic site. This oral history account is socially and historically significant as it is a part of a broader collection of interviews conducted by Jennifer Williams which were published in the book 'Listen to what they say: voices of twentieth-century Beechworth.' While the township of Beechworth is known for its history as a gold rush town, these accounts provide a unique insight into the day-to-day life of the town's residents during the 20th century, many of which will have now been lost if they had not been preserved.This is a digital copy of a recording that was originally captured on a cassette tape. The cassette tape is black with a horizontal white strip and is currently stored in a clear flat plastic rectangular container. It holds up 40 minutes of recordings on each side.listen to what they say, beechworth, oral history, burke museum, mayday hills hospital, may day hills, beechworth mental asylum, mental hospital, asylum, nursing, hospital, patient training centre, patients, social welfare

Four articles on Lirrewa’s history, conservation study and notes on architectural features and correspondence from National trust to Mrs W Brooks. Photocopy of an extract from Caulfied Historical Newsletter (No 4 April 1973) containing 2 articles about Lirrewa and Caulfield (one by J O’Donnell, one by Mrs AP Bell) Photocopied extract from the Caulfield Conservation study detailing history and features of Lirrewa written by Andrew Ward (January 1995) Handwritten notes on architectural features of home and hand drawn designs of side and centre windows and design above all main room doors. Includes typed directory listings from 1886 to 1921. Date and author unknown Copy of correspondence to Mrs W Brooks from the Administration National Trust of Australia regarding classification Lirrewa 20/03/1973 and stables.lirrewa, lirrewa grove, o’donnell j, fulton thomas, land subdivisions, glen eira road, glen huntly road, kooyong road, tennant dr, cox james dr, brooks walter richard, baby health care, bryce percy h, sylverly, house names, market gardens, chinese community, langdon montague william, langdon henry joseph, rosecraddock, langdon elizabeth, tarqua, st marys church, caulfield, hawthorn road, lirrewa grove, stables, architectural features, brooks gladys, brooks walter, councillors, scott robert, redcliff mr, architects, mcculloch mr, teachers, office workers, farmer mr, ward andrew, mansions, verandahs, slate tiles, fountains, leadlights, fireplaces, grant rs, black rs, anderson p, russell edwin r, cast ironwork, flats, marble, mantel pieces, gothic revival style, brick, arches