The first photograph from 1912 depicts a Mr Lowenthal and friends playing lawn bowls in the gardens of his late Victorian ‘boom style’ Scarba House on Wellington Street, prior to it becoming a community services centre.
Run by the Benevolent Society, Scarba Welfare House for Children provided emergency care to 0 to 8 year olds from 1917 until 1986.
These days this still stately mansion has been sucked into the new Mirvac development on Wellington Street.
Mr Lowenthal and friends playing lawn bowls
Scarba Welfare House
Mirvac development
Archival photos courtesy Waverley Library Local History Image Collection
