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Access to the decades and their corresponding years is available by clicking on the links above and or via the links contained in the navigation panel to the right.
All decades from 1960's to the present have been broken up into one page per year (i.e 1960, 1961, 1962 - 1969). There is internal navigation within each decade to corresponding years in that period.
In the beginning
Brotherhood of St Laurence inaugurated at St Stephen’s, Adamstown, NSW (8 December 1930) with Gerard Kennedy Tucker (Priest & Superior), John Walter Russell (Priest) and Guy Colman Cox (Deacon) Objects, Rules and Policy, 1933
Father Tucker invited in 1933 by Father Maynard of St Peter's, Eastern Hill, Melbourne (at the suggestion of Melbourne's Archbishop Head) to take charge of St Mary's Mission, Fitzroy.
Fr Tucker appointed as missioner to St Mary’s Mission within the parish of St Peter’s, Eastern Hill in Melbourne - both he and Guy Cox licensed as curates in that same parish (17 June 1933)
The Brotherhood came to St Mary’s Mission House, Fitzroy Street, Fitzroy on Sunday 18 June 1933
"On August 8th of 1933, seventy-five unemployed men who had been living together in a terrace of cottages in Fitzroy Street, Fitzroy, were evicted by the police, and so the work of the Brotherhood began."
Establishment of the "Single Men's Unemployed Housing Scheme," with the House of St Francis at 31 Gertrude Street, Fitzroy. Rent was covered through three groups of "Friends" from Anglican parishes - St Mary's Mission, St Peter's Eastern Hill and St George's Malvern.
Father Tucker (front row, 2nd from right) at the Patronal Festival at St Cuthbert's East Brunswick 1936.
For more photos, visit the Brotherood Flickr site
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