Name: Narrabethong School for Visually Handicapped Children
Time: 1894 - Closed
Epoch: Late 19th Century
Category: Welfare \'Handicapped\' Workshop School
Institution Category: Education
Institution Group: Schools \'Special\' or \'Therapy\'
Coordinates: -27.4948883333333, 153.044
Street Address: 49 Maynard St, Woolloongabba
Suburb: Woolloongabba
Sector: Independent \'Community\'
Local Study Area: Dutton Park-South Woolloongabba-Buranda
Study Stage: MBSH Stage 2 Local Study Areas
Manufacturer James Duthie had his home in the same Buranda street as his Duthie Brothers jam factory. It was named ‘Radford House’. Duthie died in 1899 but his family lived here until 1956. The Queensland Sub-Normal Childrens’ Welfare Association bought it in 1961. In 1963, the blind students were sent from the old (1883) Woolloongabba Blind & Deaf School to this site renamed ‘Narbethong School’. Narbethong is reputedly an Aboriginal word for happy place. In 1982, Q.S.N.C.W.A. was renamed the Endeavour Foundation.
Geographic Description 1: Inside The Green Belt
Geographic Description 2: Norman Creek
Geographic Description 3: Flood Gullies; Hills
Department of Enviroment & Heritage Protection, Qld Heritage Register citation No.602861
Visually impaired man using a braille map of the world created by R.F. Tunley, ca. 1941, SLQ 29279/23. Narbethong School for Visually Handicapped Children. (1940). 29279 Narbethong School for Visually Handicapped Children and Richard Frank Tunley Collection 1940-1968.
