Winbin, in Strathfield, sometimes referred to as Winbin Depot, was purchased by the Child Welfare Department in 1954 and converted to a children’s home. It provided short-term care for around 20 preschool-aged boys and girls. It was, at first, a disability institution. It had a kindergarten teacher on site. From 1974 four female wards lived…
Royal Far West, also referred to as Royal Far West Scheme and Drummond Far West Home, was set up in Manly in 1924 as a holiday home, to enable children from far western New South Wales to escape the conditions of the outback by holidaying by the sea. Over the years it has evolved to…
Lisgar Children’s Home was established by the Church of England Deaconess Institution at Harrison Street, Marrickville, from 1914 to 1929. Lisgar was a home for boys and girls. It moved to a property in Strathfield, called Agincourt, in the late 1920s, and became a girls’ home, later named Pallister Girls Home. In 1921, Lisgar Children’s…
Windsor Farm Home for Boys was set up by the Anglican Homes for Children Association in 1923. It was located at Freeman’s Reach and was a training farm for older boys from Milleewa and other children’s homes. It held 15 boys, who entered the home at 13 or 14 years of age and stayed until…
The Church Missionary Society Home for Half-Castes at Mulgoa was established in 1942. It housed Aboriginal children who had been evacuated under military orders by the Commonwealth Department of Native Affairs. They were mainly from South Australia, the Northern Territory and Queensland, though some were from New South Wales. They were aged 1 to 14…
Milleewa was a boys’ home that was established by the Anglican Homes for Children Association in 1919. It was located in Ashfield and housed approximately 20 boys aged from five to 14 who were ‘without homes or not under parental control’. For six months during World War II the Church Mission Society leased a portion…
The Deaconess Children’s Home and Domestic Training School was a children’s home and training home for girls that was run by the Church of England Deaconess Institution. It operated in Ashfield (1893-1894), and on various site in Balmain (1895-1914). From 1900 The Deaconess Children’s Home was co-located with Lisgar Training Home for Domestic Servants on…
The Hay Institution for Girls was opened in the old Hay Gaol in 1961. It was an annexe of Parramatta Girls Training School, and held 12 girls aged 15 to 18 who had committed offences, including rioting to protest their treatment, while they were in Parramatta. They were officially sent to Hay for three month…
The Carpentarian Reformatory was established by the Department of Charitable Institutions at Brush Farm, Eastwood, in 1894. The Carpentarian Reformatory was taken over by the State Children’s Relief Department in 1897 and became the Brush Farm Reformatory in 1908. The Carpentarian Reformatory was established by the Department of Charitable Institutions at Brush Farm, a historic…
Kinchela Training Home, near Kempsey, was built in 1923 by the Aborigines’ Protection Board. It was intended to offer training in farm labouring to older boys who had been removed from their families under the Protection Board’s policies of apprenticing Aboriginal youths. Later it became a home for school-aged boys who had been removed from…
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