This is a photograph showing a new Family Group Home opened by St John’s Homes for Boys and Girls at 20 Longview Street, Pascoe Vale. It shows three people in front of a brick house with tile roof and a long curved driveway. This image was published in the Church Scene magazine of the Anglican…
This is a copy of an image of a badge from St John’s Homes for Boys. It was published on an old website about the Shrublands mansion site. The badge likely dates from the period before 1958 when St John’s started to accept girls as well as boys.
This is a poster created by the Victorian Department of Public Works to show buildings at Mental Hospitals around Victoria that had been designed and built by the department. It includes images of ward blocks, administration offices, and staff residences at Ballarat Mental Hospital, Sunbury Mental Hospital, Mont Park, Janefield, Larundel, and Brierly Hospital Warrnambool.
These records were created by Ballarat Mental Hospital, Dana Street and Novar Receiving Houses, and Ballarat Psychiatric Hospital, and contain information about patients, staff, and administrative matters at the hospital. The collection is held by the Public Record Office of Victoria. The records contain personal details of people admitted to Ballarat Mental Hospital, including children…
This is an image of the men’s wards at Ballarat Hospital for the Insane, also known as Ballarat Mental Hospital. It shows a large two-storey brick building with arched windows and doorways on the ground floor. The face of the building is covered in climbing vines. This building is the same building that housed the…
This is an image of some of the women’s wards at the Ballarat Hospital for the Insane, also known as the Ballarat Mental Hospital. It shows two buildings in Federation Queen Anne style, with decorated roofs and wide front verandahs. Two women dressed in white, possibly nurses, can be seen standing in front of one…
Ballarat Mental Hospital was opened by the Victorian Government at Ballarat in 1893. It was located on a site that had previously been the Ballarat Industrial School, an earlier iteration of the Ballarat Asylum from 1877 to 1879, and the Ballarat Boys’ Reformatory. It was initially known as the Ballarat Asylum, then from 1905 to…
These records were created by Royal Park Mental Hospital and Royal Park Receiving House and contain information about patients, staff, and administrative matters at the hospital. The collection is held by the Public Record Office of Victoria. The records contain personal details of people admitted to Royal Park Mental Hospital and Receiving House, including children…
This is a photograph of the Sunbury Asylum, also known as the Sunbury Mental Hospital. It shows a row of ornate multi-story brick buildings with steep pitched roofs. The buildings visible are (from left to right) the administration building and main entrance to the asylum, the female hospital building, and the male admission and special…
Royal Park Receiving House was opened by the Victorian Government in 1907 at Royal Park. It was a facility for the short term diagnosis and treatment of people with mental illness or intellectual disability. Patients requiring more extensive treatment were transferred from the Receiving House to other mental health hospitals in Victoria. In 1909 the…
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