The Royal Alexandra Hospital was established in 1880 as the Sydney Hospital for Sick Children at Glebe, Sydney. It was run by a private committee and board of management. In 1904 its name was changed to the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children, and in 1907 it moved from Glebe to Camperdown. In 1995 the hospital…
The Christian Family Centre is a Pentecostal church group that was established in South Australia in 1976. It was formed as a group focussed on Christian youth-work with teenagers and evangelising in the Western suburbs of Adelaide. It is part of the CRC Churches International Movement, which was previously known as the Christian Revival Crusade….
The Police Branch of the Office of Superintendent of Police was established in 1931, following the merge of Territory of North Australia and the Territory of Central Australia into the Northern Territory. It was responsible for the administration of police stations and gaols in the Northern Territory, including Her Majesty’s Gaol and Labour Prison, Alice…
The State Library of Queensland holds a large collection of records created by the Presbyterian Church of Queensland and the Presbyterian Board of Missions. The collection includes records relating to the management of Missions for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, including Mapoon Mission, Mornington Island Mission, Aurukun Mission, Thursday Island Mission, and Weipa Mission….
This is a photograph of the Mission House and School at Mornington Island Mission. It shows two buildings, raised on stilts, on a beach with vegetation visible in the background. This photograph was included in a file held by Queensland State Archives that discuses water supply at the mission, titled ‘Missions – Mornington Island –…
This is a photograph of children playing on monkey-bars outside of a single storey stone building, identified as the Children’s Seaside Hotel, Narrabeen. The description posted alongside this photograph on the Narrabeen Reunions and the Northern Beaches Facebook page describes this photo as dating to the 1950s, and that the location of the Hotel was…
This is a photograph of a building known as Camfield House, which housed the Annesfield Aboriginal School. It shows a single-storey cottage with a small double-storey annexe on one end sitting at the top of a hill.
Museums of History NSW (State Archives) holds a large collection of records relating to patients admitted to Parramatta Mental Hospital. Many of the records contain information about patients at Parramatta, and may include information about children and young people who were admitted to the hospital. The records include admission and discharge registers, case files, post-morten…
Please contact the Cumberland Hospital Health Information and Record Service: Phone: (02) 8890 4767 Email: WSLHD-ROI@health.nsw.gov.au Website: https://www.nsw.gov.au/departments-and-agencies/wslhd/about-us/right-to-information
Parramatta Mental Hospital officially opened in 1849 under the name Parramatta Lunatic Asylum, on the site of the former Parramatta Female Factory. It was was run by the office of the Colonial Secretary before the Office of the Inspector General of the Insane was established in 1876 and took over it’s management. It had several…
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