St Andrew’s Hostel, Esperance was established in 1968 by the Anglican Diocese of Kalgoorlie to accommodate young people attending high school in Esperance. From 1973 to 1975 it was run by the Anglican Diocese of Perth and then by the Country High School Hostels Authority. It was not uncommon for children who were wards of…
The Waif’s Home, Parkerville began in 1903. It was founded by the Sisters of the Church. Sister Kate Clutterbuck has had the strongest association with the Home, which was the pioneer in Western Australia of ‘cottage care’ and keeping children from the same family together. In 1909, the Waif’s Home, Parkerville became a subsidised orphanage…
Perth College was established in 1902 by the Sisters of the Church, an Anglican religious order, as a boarding and day school. From 1902 to around 1910, the college also accommodated girls aged 6-10 years who had been brought by the Sisters in 1901 from the Orphanage of Mercy, Kilburn in England. ‘Destitute’ babies were…
Malcolm Street Receiving Home was established by the Sisters of the Church in 1907, possibly to accommodate infants who could not be placed at the Waif’s Home, Parkerville. It is likely that the Malcolm Street Receiving Home was open for a short period of time. Whittington (in Sister Kate 1999, p.131) reports that around May…
Girls’ High School, Kalgoorlie, was established in 1903 by the Sisters of the Church as a boarding and day school for girls. The first students were nine girls aged 6-10 years who had been brought by the Sisters in 1901 from the Orphanage of Mercy, Kilburn in England. These girls lived at Kalgoorlie for some…
St Peter’s Boys’ School, Fremantle, was used as a temporary children’s Home in 1903 by the Sisters of the Church, an Anglican religious order. It accommodated around 13 boys aged 6-10 years and babies aged under two years. These children had been transferred from Perth College. From May to July 1903, the children were transferred…
Tower House was established in 1901 by the Sisters of the Church, an Anglican religious order. It accommodated girls and boys aged 6-10 years who had been brought by the Sisters in 1901 from the Orphanage of Mercy, Kilburn in England. From February 1902 it was also a boys’ day and boarding school. Girls were…
Nollamara Children’s Respite House was established in 1994 by Catholic Care as a Home for children with disabilities. It has been run by Identitywa since 2001. Nollamara Children’s Respite House remained open in 2014.
The Girls’ Friendly Society Lodge was opened on the 5th June 1915 on Adelaide Terrace, Perth. It was opened to provide accommodation for girls from England or country areas of Western Australia. Typically the girls who went to the Lodge in the earlier years were members of Girls’ Friendly Society with commendations from their branch…
Lake Grace Farm Training School seems to have been run by the Anglican church, possibly as a mission of the Anglican Diocese of Bunbury, to train young Aboriginal people. The Lake Grace Farm Training School closed in the 1970s, possibly by 1972.
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