This is a photograph showing a new Family Group Home opened by St John’s Homes for Boys and Girls at 20 Longview Street, Pascoe Vale. It shows three people in front of a brick house with tile roof and a long curved driveway. This image was published in the Church Scene magazine of the Anglican…
This is a photo of the Tress Kingsdene Home at Pennant Hills Road, Carlingford, which was part of Anglicare’s Kingsdene disability program. It shows a raised split-level brick house with a garage underneath, and large plants at the front. This photo is undated, the date included is an estimate.
This is a photo of the Manning Hostel at 28 Gladstone Street, North Parramatta, which was part of Anglicare’s Kingsdene disability program. It shows a two-storey white weatherboard house with a small front verandah. This photo is undated, the date included is an estimate.
This is a copy of an image of a badge from St John’s Homes for Boys. It was published on an old website about the Shrublands mansion site. The badge likely dates from the period before 1958 when St John’s started to accept girls as well as boys.
This is a poster created by the Victorian Department of Public Works to show buildings at Mental Hospitals around Victoria that had been designed and built by the department. It includes images of ward blocks, administration offices, and staff residences at Ballarat Mental Hospital, Sunbury Mental Hospital, Mont Park, Janefield, Larundel, and Brierly Hospital Warrnambool.
This is an image of the men’s wards at Ballarat Hospital for the Insane, also known as Ballarat Mental Hospital. It shows a large two-storey brick building with arched windows and doorways on the ground floor. The face of the building is covered in climbing vines. This building is the same building that housed the…
This is an image of some of the women’s wards at the Ballarat Hospital for the Insane, also known as the Ballarat Mental Hospital. It shows two buildings in Federation Queen Anne style, with decorated roofs and wide front verandahs. Two women dressed in white, possibly nurses, can be seen standing in front of one…
This is a photograph of the Sunbury Asylum, also known as the Sunbury Mental Hospital. It shows a row of ornate multi-story brick buildings with steep pitched roofs. The buildings visible are (from left to right) the administration building and main entrance to the asylum, the female hospital building, and the male admission and special…
This is a photograph of the administration block at the Royal Park Psychiatric Hospital, also known as the Royal Park Mental Hospital. It shows are large, plain, rectangular brick building with a shallow porch jutting out over the central entrance. Older more decorative buildings can be seen on either side of the adminsitration block. Two…
This is an image of one of the buildings of the former Royal Park Psychiatric Hospital, also known as the Royal Park Mental Hospital. It shows a red brick Federation style building with red tiles, front verandahs, and yellow details. The front entrance is in the centre of the building and has an ornate face…
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