• Entry type: Resource
  • Entry ID: AWH003381

Issy Wyner Collection Box 33/1-5 Child Care Centres

  • Repository Inner West Council, Balmain Library, Local History Archive
  • Description

    Folders contain material on issues of interest to Issy Wyner occurring with Leichhardt municipality, 1967-1975. Box 33/1/1: Child care : Balmain: Correspondence, reports and newspaper articles on Balmain Child Care Centre including information on Foundation stone, Child care centre at Balmain Town hall and playground area, parking and fencing at the Child care centre, 1974-1975. Box 33/1/2: Child care : Birchgrove: Correspondence, plans and reports on playground space at Birchgrove Public School and proposal to use vacant land at end of Gow Street owned by Howard Smith Industries; Birchgrove Creative Leisure Movement, 1971-1974. Box 33/1/3: Child care : Glebe: Correspondence and reports on the Hilda Booler Kindergarten, 1972-1975. Box 33/1/ 4: Child care : Leichhardt: Leichhardt Council report on Leichhardt Baby Health Centre, 23 Norton Street, Leichhardt, 1967; St Francis Pre-School Kindergarten, 62-64 Styles Street, Leichhardt, 1974, and general information on schools within Leichhardt municipality. Box 33/1/5: Child care: Bound volume of reports, correspondence, leaflets and newspaper articles. Includes information on Balmain Child Care Centre; Creative Community Centre, Louisa Road, Balmain; Proposed establishment of child care centres by Council; Creative Leisure Movement; Long Nose Point Community Creative Centre. Collection donated by Isadore (Issy) Wyner (1916-2008) to Leichhardt Library, Balmain branch in November 2007. Mr Wyner served on Leichhardt Council 1959-1974, 1977-1980, 1984-1991.

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  • See also
    • Creative Leisure Movement (1970 - )