Want some help?
Does this page need updating?
Look for Similar
Other Find & Connect resources
Organisation Melbourne Legacy (1923 - )
The Story of Legacy is a Story of Human Kindness: Where no Trumpets Flourish, 16 May 1952, courtesy of National Library of Australia.
Details
- From
- 1923
- Categories
- Care Provider
- Alternative Names
- Legacy
- Website
- http://www.legacy.com.au/
Summary
Legacy was established in 1923, to assist men returned from the Great War and their families. Initially established to improve business prospects for returned soldiers, in 1925, Legacy's focus became providing asistance to the children of deceased servicemen.
Details
From around 1942, Melbourne Legacy operated a number of residential homes for children. Its first homes, Holmbush and Stanhope, were residential hostels for children or young people aged nine years and over attending some form of education, including tertiary.
In 1947, Legacy established a home for younger children in Beaumaris, known as Blamey House. In 1950, another hostel, Harelands, opened in Kew.
Children placed in institutions operated by Legacy were sometimes referred to as 'repatriation wards'.
According to the guide Finding your story, Legacy holds very little information about the operations of its children's homes during the post World War Two period. Former residents and their family can make enquiries to Legacy's Privacy Officer for information about and access to records.
Contact
Legacy House
Telephone: 03 8626 0500
Skip to
Related Entries
Provided 'care' at
Publications
Books
- Ellis, Malcolm Henry, The torch: a picture of Legacy, 2nd edn, Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1970. Details
Reports
- James Jenkinson Consulting, Guide to out-of-home care services, 1940-2000, Department of Human Services, Unpublished. Details
Online Resources
- The Story of Legacy is a Story of Human Kindness: Where no Trumpets Flourish, The Argus [Supplement: The Argus Magazine], 16 May 1952, 4 pp, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article23181514. Details
- Christmas is party time …, The Argus, 15 December 1952, 5 pp, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article23217636. Details
- Senate Community Affairs References Committee Secretariat, Parliament of Australia, Protecting Vulnerable Children: a national challenge: Second report on the inquiry into children in institutional or out-of-home care, Commonwealth of Australia, March 2005, http://www.forgottenaustralians.com/pdf/ProtectingVulnerableChildrenReport.pdf. Details
Gallery
- Title
- The Story of Legacy is a Story of Human Kindness: Where no Trumpets Flourish
- Type
- Newspaper article
- Date
- 16 May 1952
- Source
- National Library of Australia
Sources used to compile this entry: James Jenkinson Consulting, Guide to out-of-home care services, 1940-2000, Department of Human Services, Unpublished; Senate Community Affairs References Committee Secretariat, Parliament of Australia, Protecting Vulnerable Children: a national challenge: Second report on the inquiry into children in institutional or out-of-home care, Commonwealth of Australia, March 2005, http://www.forgottenaustralians.com/pdf/ProtectingVulnerableChildrenReport.pdf.
Prepared by: Cate O'Neill
Created: 18 June 2009, Last modified: 5 March 2013
Last updated: 2 May 2013
Cite this: http://www.findandconnect.gov.au/vic/biogs/E000348b.htm
First published by the Find & Connect Web Resource Project for the Commonwealth of Australia, 2011
Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Australia License