Please contact Queensland State Archives:
Postal Address: PO Box 1397, Sunnybank Hills QLD 4109
Phone: (07) 3037 6777
Email: info@archives.qld.gov.au
Website: https://www.qld.gov.au/recreation/arts/heritage/archives/contacts
Quote this number to access your records: Queensland State Archives Series ID, S987
These records are held by Queensland State Archives.
This series contains admission registers recording details of students who attended the school at the Westbrook Farm Home for Boys. Information contained in the registers includes child’s name, admission number, date of admission, date of birth and age on admission, parent’s names, occupations, and address, religious denomination, school grade, date of leaving the school, and date of re-admission where relevant. The registers also sometimes refer to special visits of occasions.
Access to these files is restricted for 80 years in order to protect personal privacy. For access to these records please contact Queensland State Archives.
Although these registers have been titled as Wilson Youth Hospital School, they refer to schooling at Westbrook Farm Home for Boys, and pre-date the opening of the Wilson School in 1961. Primary School aged children were transferred to Wilson School from Westbrook in 1961. It is likely that this register was also transferred to the new school at this time, as it would have contained current student details, but was not used by Wilson School.