Gosford Farm Home for Boys (1911 - 1923)

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Mount Penang 50 years ago and to-day, c. 1962, courtesy of .
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1911

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1923

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Reformatory, Government-run, Industrial School, Home, Juvenile Justice Centre

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Mount Penang
Mt Penang
Gosford Reformatory

Gosford Farm Home for Boys was a reformatory established by the Department of Public Instruction. It was officially opened in 1913 but boys lived there from 1911, as they laboured to build it. The farm home occupied a 700 acre site on Penang Mountain (Mount Penang), near Kariong. It housed boys moved from the Brush Farm Reformatory and the training vessel the Sobraon. Gosford Farm Home for Boys was transferred to the Child Welfare Department in 1923 and became the Gosford Training School.

1911 - 1913: Location - Gosford Farm Home for Boys was under construction at Kariong
1913 - 1923: Location - Gosford Farm Home for Boys was situated at Mount Penang, Kariong, near Gosford

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1908 - 1912: Brush Farm Reformatory
1911 - 1923: Gosford Farm Home for Boys
1923 - 1945: Gosford Training School

Collection Title: Departmental Records relating to State Wards, New South Wales (1881 - 1983)
Date Range: 1881 - 1983
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Contact: Please contact the Care Leaver Records Access Unit, Community Services:
Address: Care Leaver Records Access Unit, Community Services, Department of Communities and Justice, Locked Bag 5000, Parramatta NSW 2150
Phone: 1300 137 160 or (02) 9716 2500
Email: CareLeaverRecordsAccessUnit@facs.nsw.gov.au
Website: https://www.facs.nsw.gov.au/families/out-of-home-care/about-out-of-home-care/were-you-in-out-of-home-care
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