The La Perouse Training School was opened in 1928 in Yarra Bay House at Phillip Bay at La Perouse as an annexe of the Parramatta Girls Training Home. It held girls who had been committed to Parramatta but who were generally younger and was deemed less problematic. In 1940 La Perouse Training School closed and…
Guildford Truant School for Boys was a School for Specific Purposes established by the Department of Education in the property Linnwood in 1917. It opened in 1918 and housed boys who were persistently absent from school and were under sentence from the Children’s Court. The school closed at the end of 1935. In 1936, Linnwood…
The Shaftesbury Reformatory School opened in 1880 on a site on Old South Head Road (in the present-day suburb of Vaucluse), as a replacement for the Biloela Reformatory School for Females on Cockatoo Island. It included a series of cottages and three solitary cells surrounded by high fences, and usually housed a total of around…
The Newcastle Industrial School was established on 6 August 1867 in the former Military Barracks on the Newcastle Government Domain. It was a place of detention for girls charged with neglect, wandering, street-trading or being ‘uncontrollable’. From 1869 the site was shared with the Newcastle Reformatory School for Females. In 1871 the institution was relocated…
The Canterbury Bankstown City Library Image Collection contains images of the Canterbury Bankstown local government area held by Canterbury Bankstown City Library. The collection is being digitised and is available online as Canterbury Bankstown Remembers and via Trove. The collection includes images of the Protestant Federation Home which contains images of people and buildings at…
The Presbyterian Metropolitan Mission was a city mission run by the Presbyterian Church in Sydney.
Care Force was part of the Anglican Home Mission Society. It was formed in early 1979, and was based at the former Charlton Boys’ Home site at Ashfield. It appears to have replaced Church of England Homes, taking over the children’s homes that had been run by the Sydney Diocese of the Church of England….
Ormond House, in Oxford Street Paddington, was used by the State Children’s Relief Board from 1884 until 1923. It was the Central Home or Central Depot, and was a receiving home and shelter for children of all ages. It took girls from Shaftesbury Reformatory in 1904 and Hillside Home for Mothers and Babies moved there…
Ormond, Thornleigh, also known as Thornleigh Training School for Girls and Thornleigh Girls’ Home, was established in Duffy Avenue at Thornleigh in 1946 by the Child Welfare Department. It was an annexe to the Parramatta Girls Training School, and housed Parramatta girls who were defined as being ‘privilege’: they were at the end of their…
Myee, also known as Myee Babies’ Home and Myee Hostel, was established in 1926 in Arncliffe and run by the Child Welfare Department. It was a home for babies and up to 16 young unmarried expectant mothers who had been committed by the Children’s Court to state care. Some mothers retained their babies after they…
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