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Queen Victoria Hospital for Women and Babies

61 Albion Street Annandale c. 1970

Carramar

Carramar maternity home in Turramurra, from ABC Four Corners 1965-1966. In 1966 the ABC Four Corners television programme visited Carramar, as part of a story on adoption and footage from the Home was featured in a 2012 Four Corners story about forced adoptions.

Protestant Federation Home, Hurlstone Park, 1940s

This is a digital copy of an image in the Protestant Children’s Home collection in the Canterbury Bankstown City Library Image Collection. The description given states ‘NSW Protestant Federation Home, 50 Garnet Street, Hurlstone Park.’

Boys line up at Endeavour House in Tamworth

Reproduced by ABC Investigations Unit, with permission from Family and Community Services NSW. This photo is undated, the date included is an estimate.

Montrose Child Protection Unit Burwood

This is a photograph of the Montrose Home at Burwood. It shows a large white house surrounded by lawns and gardens. This photograph is part of a collection of photographs from children’s Homes and Institutions held by the NSW Department of Community Justice. A version of this image is also in the collection of the…

Girls working in the garden, watched over by officers, Hay Institution for Girls, 1965.

This image was included in the National Museum of Australia’s Inside blog, originally provided by Community Services New South Wales, Human Services.

Scheyville Training Farm

Building dating from Scheyville Training Farm phase at Scheyville National Park today.