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The Minister for Child Welfare opens Weroona on 7 March 1959 [the official reopening of Weroona]

This is a copy of an image that appeared in the Child Welfare Department of New South Wales Annual Report of 1959.

Ballet at Thornbury Lodge

This is a copy of an image that appeared in the Child Welfare Department of New South Wales Annual Report of 1968.

Thornbury Lodge girls come home from school

This is a copy of an image that appeared in the Child Welfare Department of New South Wales Annual Report of 1968.

At work on a school project at Thornbury Lodge

This is a copy of an image that appeared in the Child Welfare Department of New South Wales Annual Report of 1961.

“Thornbury Lodge”: A new home for Pre-school children

This is a copy of an image that appeared in the Child Welfare Department of New South Wales Annual Report of 1958.

Future Citizens – “Thornbury Lodge”

This is a copy of an image that appeared in the Child Welfare Department of New South Wales Annual Report of 1958.

Mustering the beef herd at St Heliers, Muswellbrook

This is a photograph of cattle being mustered in front of St Herliers training school.  It shows three people on horseback with a herd of approximately 40 cows in front of a range of large, two-storey brick buildings. This photograph was published in the Child Welfare Department Annual Report of 1966 along with the following…

Reiby School for Girls

This image is from the cover of a 1978 NSW Treasury report into the costs of building and maintaining NSW Child Welfare Department buildings.