He got a job working at Gordon House, one of Melbourne's night shelters, where up to 300 homeless men and women lived, some of them for years, under scarifying conditions.
In November 2015, the Lord Mayor of Melbourne awarded Bryan Lipmann "Melburnian of the Year' [3] in acknowledgement of his significant contribution to the life of the city.
There is a famous press photograph of Tiny Wintringham, a portly homeless gentleman with his arms outstretched standing in the doorway of the original Gordon House, a night-shelter where he lived during the 1960s.
Knowing that he, and other long-term residents, would thereby be made homeless, Tiny approached politicians, the unionist Norm Gallagher (leader of the Builders Labourers Federation) and newspapers.
Wintringham has partnered with Allen Kong Architect[5] in constructing McLean Lodge, Port Melbourne Hostel, Atkins Terrace Housing, Ron Conn Nursing Home, the Eunice Seddon Home and in the re-development of the Alexander Miller Trust portfolio of housing in regional Victoria.