In May 1952, the Argus reported that Melbourne Legacy planned to open a new residence, Harelands, 'to keep pace with the demands upon its guardianship'. (Legacy ran 3 other children's homes at that time.) It was located at 5 Willsmere Road, Kew.
Originally, Harelands was a hostel for Junior Legatees, who were in employment but not quite ready to live independently. According to Jenkinson, Harelands later changed its function to receive boys and girls aged 6 to 14.
Residents of Harelands and other Legacy homes were the children of deceased ex-servicemen. Sometimes residents at Legacy homes were both children of ex-servicemen and wards of state.
Harelands was renamed Blamey House in 1977 (Legacy had previously operated homes also called Blamey House at Beaumaris and Kew). It provided accommodation for boys aged 13 and over until it closed in 1980.
Last updated:
10 August 2021
Cite this: http://www.findandconnect.gov.au/guide/vic/E000340
First published by the Find & Connect Web Resource Project for the Commonwealth of Australia, 2011
Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License