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Seaforth Boys Home 1947

‘Seaforth Boys Home 1947’ is a digital copy of two images mounted on a single piece of paper and held in the Seaforth photos file at the Salvation Army Heritage Museum WA. A typed caption reads: ‘Seaforth Boys Home – 1947 On left is Lieut. Ron Dunshea oversighting boys making bricks’. The other image is…

Seaforth MacKenzie Home at Seaforth Boy’s Home, 1951

‘Seaforth MacKenzie Home at Seaforth Boy’s Home, 1951’ is a digital copy of four images mounted on paper and held in the Seaforth photos file at the Salvation Army Heritage Museum WA. A typed caption identifies the images as a photograph of the homestead used for the Seaforth Boys’ Home; a photograph of boys in…

Seaforth WA Children’s Homes 1920’s

‘Seaforth WA Children’s Homes 1920’s’ is a digital copy of an item held in the Seaforth Boys closed social work file at the Salvation Army Heritage Museum WA. It is a collection of photocopied images relating to the children’s Homes run by the Salvation Army on the Seaforth site at Gosnells: Seaforth Boys’ Home; Seaforth…

Seaforth History

‘Seaforth history’ is a digital copy of an undated item held in the Seaforth Boys closed social work file at the Salvation Army Heritage Museum WA. It is a typed list of major historical events (such as openings and closings) and key staff movements at the Seaforth Boys’ Home and Reformatory. It is likely that…

Autograph Message No. IV

‘Autograph Message No. IV. is a digital copy of a photocopy held in the Hopetoun closed social work file at the Salvation Army Heritage Museum WA and published, according to a handwritten caption, in the War Cry on 14 May 1910. This item gives insight into the importance of ‘child conversion’ in the Salvation Army…

Buckingham Cottage

‘Buckingham Cottage’ is a digital copy of an insert held in the Hollywood Children’s Village file at the Salvation Army Heritage Museum WA. The insert has two site plans of the Salvation Army facilities at Hollywood, with the location of Buckingham Cottage and the swimming pool highlighted; an image (taken 1994) of cottage parents; an…

Salvation Army Hollywood site plan

‘Salvation Army Hollywood site plan’ is a digital copy of a photocopied map held in the Hollywood Children’s Village file at the Salvation Army Heritage Museum WA. The site plan shows the location of Brand, Pied Piper, Buckingham and Cottesloe Cottages on the Hollywood Children’s Village site, bordered by Smyth Road and Karella Street. The…

Salvation Army Regulations: Historical Record

The Salvation Army ‘Regulations Historical Record’ is a digital copy of an item held in the Cottesloe Girls closed social work lever-arch file at the Salvation Army Heritage Museum WA. The item is an undated photocopy of the front page of the Cottesloe Girls’ Home historical record. It shows the types of ‘events or incidents’…

Withnell House History Book, cover

‘Withnell House History Book, cover’ is a digital copy of an undated photcopy that is held in the Withnell House child home closed lever-arch file at the Salvation Army Heritage Museum WA. There is no personal information in the photocopy, but the item has a page of instructions that show what the History Book should…

Withnell House

‘Withnell House’ is a digital copy of a history paper, prepared by The Salvation Army Historical Society, that is held in the Withnell House child home closed [File, Salvation Army] file at the Salvation Army Heritage Museum WA.