Mittagong Training School For Boys, run by the Child Welfare Department, was the new name given in 1947 to what had been the Mittagong Farm School for Boys. It was an institution for boys aged 8 to 17 convicted in the Children’s Courts. Some children were transferred from the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) and placed…
St Martha’s Industrial Home opened at Leichhardt by the Sisters of Saint Joseph in 1888. St Martha’s housed girls of school age and trained them in domestic arts and crafts. In 1923 the original building was demolished and replaced with dormitories, housing up to 120 children. In the late 1950s, St Martha’s Industrial Home became…
Biloela Industrial School was an industrial school for girls that was established on Cockatoo Island by the Comptroller of Prisons in 1871 to replace the Newcastle Industrial School for Girls. It usually held up to 120 girls at any given time aged from about 18 months to 14 years. Biloela Industrial School was located on…
The Parramatta Girls Industrial School was established in 1887 in the old Roman Catholic Orphan School buildings at Parramatta by the Department of Public Instruction. It accommodated around 160 to 200 girls at a time, and some younger boys, most of whom had been charged with crimes or committed for welfare reasons. In 1912 the…
The Iandra Methodist Rural Centre was at Iandra Castle at Greenthorpe, near Cowra. It was a training farm for boys aged 15 to 18 years who were first offenders and opened in 1956. In the first five years, over 50 young men lived there. Iandra was run by the Methodist Church’s Department of Christian Citizenship…
Arncliffe Girls’ Industrial Home was established at Arncliffe in 1916, possibly in rented premises, before moving to a house called Dappeto in 1917. It was run by the Salvation Army and was an industrial school and home for girls who had been committed to care by the courts. It was closed in 1930 and converted…
The Balmain Industrial School was established at Balmain in 1910 by the Sisters of the Good Samaritan. The Sisters had conducted primary, secondary and boarding schools at Balmain since the 1860s and when the Manly Industrial School and Orphanage closed, Cardinal Moran allowed them to use the Balmain Convent for a domestic training school for…
St Vincent’s Boys’ Home was established in 1891 by the St Vincent de Paul Society. It was originally located in Surry Hills as a refuge for homeless children. It then moved to Redfern, then to Five Dock, and finally to Westmead in 1896. From 1896 until 1968, the Home was run as a joint venture…
Mittagong Farm Home for Boys was established at Mittagong in 1906. In accordance with the provisions of the Neglected Children and Juvenile Offenders Act, 1905 it was proclaimed as an Industrial School and Probationary Training Home for boys aged 8 to 17 on 5 June 1906. ‘Delinquent’ boys were sent to Mittagong from the Children’s…
The Success was a hulk [ship] anchored in Hobsons Bay. From 1869 it accommodated children over the age of seven who had been convicted under the Neglected and Criminal Children’s Act of 1864. Later, the Success was used as the sleeping quarters for those boys described as ‘difficult’ who were living in the reformatory ship,…
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