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Boys working in the vegetable patch at Kennerley Boys’ Home

Landscape view of the Kennerley Boys’ Home at Lansdowne Crescent, West Hobart.

‘Tresca’

Caption from National Archives of Australia: Immigration – Child migration schemes – The Fairbridge Society this month extended its child migration scheme to Tasmania. The Society has taken over and modernised “Tresca” near Launceston. This wil be in addition to farms schools for British migrant children at Molong, NSW and at Pinjarra, WA. The society…

Infant Orphan School

Boy’s Home, Walkerville

This image shows the later building of the Church of England’s Boys’ Home at Walkerville, which was renamed Kennion House in 1955.

Whitmore Square, near Sturt Street

This image shows Lady Victoria Buxton Girl’s Club on the East side of Whitmore Square .