Petford Training Farm, Petford, was initially privately funded by Geoff Guest. It opened in 1978 and in August 1983, the Petford Training Farm Aboriginal Corporation was licensed as a foster home. Funding for Petford Training Farm as a residential facility ceased in March 1999. The Petford Training Farm operated as a camp for troubled indigenous…
The Riverview Training Farm, in Riverview, was operated by the Salvation Army. In 1926 its function changed from a boys reformatory to a training farm for local boys and British ‘child migrants’ over 14 years. In 1935 it once again became an Industrial School. The name changed to Home for Boys, Riverview in 1956 when…
The Westbrook Reformatory for Boys was established at Westbrook, 15 kilometres south west of Toowoomba. It was run by the government. Boys under the age of 18, who were confined by the Children’s Court, were sent to the Westbrook Reformatory for Boys. Boys from the Diamantina Reformatory School for Boys were moved to Westbrook in…
Fairbridge Farm School was established at Molong in 1938 by Fairbridge Farm Schools of New South Wales, as a home for child migrants, aged four to 18, who travelled from the United Kingdom under the Fairbridge Society. Around 1,000 children lived at Molong over a 35 year period, including Australian-born children who were also sent…
The Farm Home for Boys, Narara, was established by the Child Welfare Department near Gosford. It was an annexe of Gosford Training School. In 1934, boys at the Farm Home for Boys, Narara were transferred back to Gosford Training School. The Farm Home for Boys, Narara, was located 16 kilometres from Gosford at Narara on…
Riverina Welfare Farm for Boys, Yanco was an industrial school, or juvenile detention centre, in the Riverina. It was established at the former Yanco Experiment Farm in 1928 by the Child Welfare Department and held up to 128 boys. It functioned as a training farm and the New South Wales Department of Agriculture trained the…
Karmsley Hills was a training farm for youth migrants that was established by the Big Brother Movement at Bossley Park, near Liverpool, in 1947. Between 1947 and 1971 nearly 4,000 young British migrants passed through this establishment. It closed in 1971. The Big Brother Movement purchased Karmsley Hills, which was a 600 acre property, for…
The Probationary Farm Home, Toronto, on the Central Coast, was established by the State Children’s Relief Department in 1909. It was a home for boys who were defined as having extremely serious problems of a moral, sexual or psychological nature, and who, it was thought, should not be placed with other children. It operated for…
The Probationary Farm Home, Dora Creek, was established at Dora Creek in 1900 by the State Children’s Relief Department as a special institution for boys whose behaviour was such that they might otherwise have been institutionalised in Newcastle Hospital for the Insane. Dora Creek was a farm home, under the supervision of a private farmer,…
Brush Farm Reformatory was operated by the Department of Public Instruction from 1908 at Brush Farm, Eastwood, in the Dundas Valley. It had been the Carpentarian Reformatory for Boys. Brush Farm Reformatory closed in 1912 when the boys were moved to the Gosford Farm Home for Boys at Mount Penang. Brush Farm is in an…
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