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Victoria - Organisation
Riddells Creek Girls' Home (1900 - 1940)
- From
- 1900
- To
- 1940
- Categories
- Children's Home, Home, Protestant, Reformatory and Salvation Army
- Alternative Names
- Riddell's Creek Girls' Home (Also known as)
- Riddells Creek Reformatory (Also known as)
The Riddells Creek Girls' Home was established by the Salvation Army in 1900.
In 1902 it housed 40 girls, including some 'recruited' from Melbourne's slums. The Home closed in 1940.
Publications
Newspaper Articles
- 'The incorrigible girl - and the Army home for her', The Victory, 1 August 1914. Details
Reports
- Department for Neglected Children and Reformatory Schools. Report of the Secretary., Government Printer, Melbourne, 1888 - 1924. Details
Online Resources
- State Children in Victoria, The Advertiser, 17 April 1902, 7 pp, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4867513. Details
- Riddell's Creek Reformatory, The Argus, 4 March 1902, 6 pp, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article9630535. Details
- Girls escape from Home - sheets used as rope, The Argus, 4 December 1923, 5 pp, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1999561. Details
- The Salvation Army Australia Southern Territory, 'Children's Homes: A list of openings, closings and function (submission 46)', in Inquiry into Institutional Care: Submissions received as at 17/03/05, Commonwealth of Australia, 2005, http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Community_Affairs/Completed_inquiries/2004-07/inst_care/submissions/sublist. Details
- Victoria. Children's Welfare Department and Reformatory Schools, Report of the Secretary and Inspector for the Year 1927, Victorian Government, Melbourne, 30 June 1928, 22 pp. Details
- Victoria. Children's Welfare Department and Reformatory Schools, Report of the Secretary and Inspector for the Year 1928, Victorian Government, Melbourne, 30 June 1929, http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/papers/govpub/VPARL1929_2ndSessNo5.pdf. Details
Photos
- Title
- Girls Home - Riddell's Creek - Vic.
- Type
- Image
- Date
- 1914
- Source
- Copy of photograph supplied by Gina Harris
Details
- Title
- Girls Home - Riddells Creek - Victoria
- Type
- Image
- Date
- c. 1914
- Source
- Copy of photograph supplied by Gina Harris
Details
Sources used to compile this entry: State Children in Victoria, The Advertiser, 17 April 1902, 7 pp, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4867513;
The Salvation Army Australia Southern Territory, 'Children's Homes: A list of openings, closings and function (submission 46)', in Inquiry into Institutional Care: Submissions received as at 17/03/05, Commonwealth of Australia, 2005, http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Community_Affairs/Completed_inquiries/2004-07/inst_care/submissions/sublist.
Prepared by: Cate O'Neill
Created: 1 May 2009, Last modified: 29 October 2018