Long term resident, Wayne Dillon gives a tour of Waterton Hall, a former Catholic girls’ school, which provided accommodation and training in farm skills for young homeless men. The film was made on 16 March 1991.
This is a video uploaded to YouTube by Jim Lesses, a member of the campaign in the 1990s to establish a memorial at the former site of Colebrook Home. This successful campaign led to the creation of the Colebrook Reconciliation Park in around 1998. The video features commissioned artworks by Silvio Apponyi: Pool of Tears…
This is a video by Wei Win Loy, a digital reconstruction of the Cherbourg’s Girls’ Dormitory -1960, produced with Dr. Timothy O’Rourke, School of Architecture, University of Queensland. All content was created from Archive documents and historical photographs. Programs used: Autodesk Revit, Autodesk Recap, Rhinoceros 3D and Unity. Many thanks to the Queensland State Archive…
This is a clip from Eventide and Westbrook Farm Home: Brisbane City Mission, a film made to promote the social and charitable work of Brisbane City Mission in 1950. The description for this clip is: “The boys at Westbrook Farm Home for Boys in Queensland’s southeast sleep in open wards. The dormitories are connected to…
In 1945 seven year-old Joe Eggmolesse was diagnosed with Leprosy. He was taken from his family under police escort, transported by rail and sea over a thousand kilometres to Fantome Island where he was to be incarcerated for the next ten years.
This is a video of a song called ‘Momma’ by Leanne Hawkins. The video features Leanne revisiting the site of St Joseph’s Orphanage, Bathurst, where her mother was placed in 1942, and St Michael’s Church of England War Memorial Children’s Home in Kelso, where Leanne and her sister were placed in 1966.
This is a video produced by Wesley Dalmar in 2014. It contains archival footage from the Home including film of children working on the farm and playing games. It also includes interviews with former residents and current Dalmar staff.
This is a video with footage of the Daruk Training School at the time it opened in 1960.
This is a video published on The Hills Shire Council’s YouTube account. It is an excerpt from the film ‘My Brother’s Keeper (c.1950).
[This description was taken from the caption published on the SBS Living Black channel on YouTube. This episode aired on 9 June 2012] Its been a long journey of healing for former residents of the Cootamundra Girls Home in southern New South Wales. But nearly a hundred years after it opened members of the stolen…
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