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“Cooinoo” – Home for Destitute Girls – Your Money is the Answer to this Prayer

“Cooinoo” – Home for Destitute Girls – Your Money Is the Answer to This Prayer was a flyer produced by the Home. It contains staged pictures of some the children who attended and provides brief information about how people’s donations could assist those children in the Home. A copy of this flyer was supplied to…

“Avoca Nursing Home”; Randwick Heritage Study, Perumal Murphy & Wu

This is a copy of a page of the Randwick Heritage Study that describes Avoca Nursing Home. This webpage is no longer in operation. this URL is taken from the wayback machine and is dated 11 February 2019.

A Mini Pictorial Tour of St Josephs Home for Children: 34 Liverpool Road, Croydon

This is a digital copy of a pamphlet produced by the Sisters of St Joseph which is held in the collection of Diana Fusco.

Monte Pio Girls Home and Convent after final renovations in the early 1950s till its closure in 1972 & early photo of Monte Pio Motor Inn

This is a digitised document showing changes in the buildings over time, and what uses different parts of the buildings had.

Tahmoor Children’s Home Booklet

The booklet contains general information about Tahmoor Children’s Home and the objectives of the home.

Girls’ Training Home for Domestic Service. Berry Street, East Melbourne.

This is a copy of a brochure about the Training Home for Girls, made available on the website of the East Melbourne Historical Society. The brochure contains information about the institution and a number of photographs of young women who lived there. The photograph of the building appears on the back page of the brochure.

‘Girls flee blaze: Lisa Lodge refuge seriously damaged’

This is a copy of the front page of the Ballarat Courier on 5 June 1992. It is an illustrated report about a fire at Lisa Lodge refuge. Alternative accommodation had to be found for the young women who lived there. The article states that the Victorian house in Barkly Street, Ballarat ‘contains three bedrooms,…

Advice of admission of a child to an institution and claim for additional child endowment

This is a copy of a form used by the Commonwealth Department of Social Services in the 1970s to administer child endowment payments to institutions. This form was provided to the Find & Connect web resource by Berry Street’s Heritage and Background Information Service and has been redacted to protect the privacy of individuals.

Pirra Children’s Home – Winter Menu – 1970

These 4 images are of the 4 winter menu options for Pirra Girls’ Home in the Winter of 1970. They were part of the Pirra Children’s Home – General correspondence file (1970-1974) which documented the activities of government and non-government children’s residential care agencies.

Departmental Family Group Homes, November 1977

This is a digital copy of a document showing lists of Family Group Homes in the 1970s. The date ‘November 1977’ was supplied by staff of the Department of Human Services. There is an annotation on this copy of the document: “*alterations made to copy 11/11/14”.