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The Dictionary of Sydney was archived in 2021.

The Dictionary of Sydney was archived in 2021.

Hammond Hotel

Nonprofit or charity

Charity organisation established by RBS Hammond to feed and house the homeless and unemployed. The first in Newtown was followed by five others in the surrounding suburbs, often in disused warehouses.

Milestone
Formed
1908
Position
Founded by
Hammond, RBS
1908
Type
Nonprofit or charity

Hammond, Robert Brodribb Stewart

by
Meredith Lake
,
2012

One of the best-known clergymen in Sydney during the first half of the twentieth century, RBS Hammond was a passionate advocate of temperance and 'practical Christianity'. His philanthropic endeavours, involving housing, feeding and finding employment for the poor, survived him in the suburb of Hammondville, and the institution of HammondCare.

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