This image shows a blank Admittance Form, used by the Foundling Hospital and Infants’ Home. Typical information recorded about an infant in its Admittance Form included: Name of child; Date of admission; Details of parents or guardian. The institution used this format, with Admittance Forms bound in a ‘red book’, from 1940 to 1974. Typical…
This two-storey building was constructed c.1884. Before the building at 187 Scott Parade was built for the Alexandra Babies’ Home (later known as the Alexandra Toddlers’ Home), babies and their mothers were accommodated at this site.
This single storey building at 187 Scott Parade was constructed in 1909 for the Alexandra Babies’ Home (later known as the Alexandra Toddlers’ Home). Previously, babies and their mothers were accommodated at the two-storey building at 183 Scott Parade (the former Ballarat Female Refuge). It would seem that babies and toddlers were accommodated in both…
This image shows the Church of England Mission House.
Spring Street – west side, near corner with Little Lonsdale Street, showing Church of England Mission House
This building was once the first Mission House of the Sisters of the Community of the Holy Name.
This is an image of the St Vincent’s Boys’ Home “Build A Boy” donation box.
This is a photograph of the Berry Street Foundling Home donation box, with “Please, Help the Babies” written on the lid.
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