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Children picking apples in the apple orchard atTresca Children’s Home for child migrants, Exeter,Tasmania, 1958

[Caption taken from the National Archives of Australia Recordsearch] Immigration – Child migration schemes – The Fairbridge Society has converted “Tresca”, Exeter, Tasmania, into a home for children from Britain. The new home is for children from broken homes, parentless children, or children with only one parent unable to care for them.

A Tresca boy talks to the farmer who fenced the property

[Caption taken from the National Archives of Australia Recordsearch] Immigration – Child migration schemes – The Fairbridge Society has converted “Tresca”, Exeter, Tasmania, into a home for children from Britain. The new home is for children from broken homes, parentless children, or children with only one parent unable to care for them.

Risdon Prison

Photograph taken by the Mercury. It shows the new maximum security area completed in 2006.

Risdon Prison

Photograph taken by the Mercury. It shows the observation tower of the original complex on the right.

Risdon Prison

Photograph taken by the Mercury. It shows the observation tower and part of the wall of the original complex.

The former Malmesbury Girls’, Receiving and Family Group Home in 2009

Heritage Tasmania supplied this photograph.

The former Malmesbury Girls’, Receiving and Family Group Home in 2008

Heritage Tasmania supplied this photograph.

The former Malmesbury Girls’, Receiving and Family Group Home

The 2012 owners of the former Malmesbury Receiving and Family Group Home supplied this photograph.

Clarendon Children’s Home, Mount Royal, Kingston Beach

The Church News published this photograph of Clarendon Children’s Home at Mount Royal in their November 1945 edition on page 8.