This is an interview with Pastor David Stevens (who started the Weerianna Hostel with his wife Margaret), and their daughter Ruth, who spent 10 years living at the hostel as a child. The interview took place in the week prior to the demolition of the Weerianna Hostel, and is a reflection of the hostel between…
This is a copy of a document from Child and Family Services Ballarat. It is a historical timeline of the Ballarat Orphanage and its previous and subsequent names, beginning in 1865, going up to 1994. The last page is a list of Superintendents and Secretary’s at the institution, from 1865 up to 1989.
This is an image of Te Aro Villa at 261 Charles Street, Launceston, which, between 1895 and 1896, housed the Salvation Army Rescue Home. The photograph shows an ornate, two-storey house with a steep pitched roof. There is a sign in front of the house which reads “Launceston Wesleyan Chapel”.
This is a copy of an image published in the book, Pitch your tents on distant shores (2010)
This is an image of the Murdoch Holiday Home at Huskisson, also known as the Burnside Holiday Home. This image was published in Burnside: 75 years of caring. This image is undated. The date included is an estimate.
This is an image of Brig House, which was later purchased by the Red Cross Society and used as the Lady Norrie Junior Red Cross Children’s Home. It shows a large, ornate, house surrounded by gardens. Two children can be seen standing in the garden looking at the house. This image was published in the…
This is a digital copy of a photograph of St Vincent de Paul’s Children’s Home. It is published in the book Holding on to hope (2004) with the following caption: ‘The double-story, red brick building, constructed on an elevated site close to the beach in 1938, originally functioned as a convent and holiday home. It…
This is an aerial photograph showing the site of the Lockhart River mission. It shows a clearing of land at the base of Bare Hill (near the Lockhart River) with two rows of buildings at the rear of the site, another smaller of group of buildings to the right of these, and a couple of…
This is an image of two of the mission houses at Umeewarra Mission. It shows two tin-roof, tin-clad buildings with boarded up windows. The photo has been taken from behind a chain-link fence. This image was published by ABC News in an article reporting on the decision to postpone the demolition of the buildings following…
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.
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