Welfare House was a convalescent Home for mothers and children, on the corner of Alma Road and Chapel Street in East St Kilda. The Red Cross leased the property from around 1946 and until around 1953. Initially Welfare House provided accommodation for children of ex-servicemen whose mothers were in hospital. From around 1948, Welfare House…
Edgecliffe, Red Cross Convalescent Home was located on Beach Road, Hampton. The Red Cross took over the property from the Australian Army in early 1944, to use it for the ‘recreation and well-being of convalescent girls’. (Previously, the building belonged to the Royal Children’s Hospital, and was used for convalescent children.) It could accommodate from…
Lady Dugan Red Cross Home in Malvern was a Home for convalescent servicewomen, run by the Australian Red Cross. For the first 2 years of its operation it was known as Kooringa Home. It also received convalescent mothers and babies, and later provided temporary accommodation for children of ex-servicemen whose parents were hospitalised. It opened…
From the mid 1950s St John’s Homes for Boys and Girls, and later Anglicare Victoria, ran a number of family group homes across Melbourne. In around 1955, St John’s opened its first four family group homes, or cottage homes, on the main St John’s site in Canterbury. Initially St John’s housed only boys, however the…
Silverton Shelter was run by the State Children’s Relief Department as a remand home for children who had been charged with offences by the police and were awaiting court appointments or being sent to other institutions. The shelter operated out of the old Silverton Gaol, on Burke street, Silverton, about 20km from Broken Hill. It…
The Victorian Children’s Aid Society Home was opened on 13 November 1901 by the Victorian Neglected Children’s Aid Society. Situated in Leonard Street, Parkville, this Home had a number of different names over time. It was a non denominational children’s Home, providing accommodation for boys and girls. From around 1920, it was referred to as…
The Rutherglen Viticultural College, Chiltern Valley Road, Rutherglen, from 1904 accepted wards of the state deemed to be suitable for viticultural and general farm work as trainees. The Department for Neglected Children and Reformatory Schools and the Agricultural Department struck an agreement to facilitate this placement. The arrangement appears to have ceased by 1927. The…
Straight View Farm Reformatory School was established in Harcourt, Victoria in 1895. It accommodated Roman Catholic boys from the ages of 11 to 17. It closed in 1919. The Straight View Farm Reformatory School was a private reformatory established to accommodate Roman Catholic boys at Harcourt. Their housing in this small cottage farm school, where…
The Antonian Children’s Home as it was known from 1966, formerly the Antonian Institute for Children, was established in Richmond in 1959 to cater for children of Italian origin, including state wards. It closed in 1979. The Antonian Institute for Children was established at 311 Church Street, Richmond in 1959 by the Daughters of Divine…
The Geelong Female Refuge was established in 1868 at Kildare, initially to house and reform ‘fallen’ women who had nowhere to live. By 1893 the Refuge accepted pregnant unmarried women who were prepared to have their babies at the refuge and remain for a further 12 months with their baby. By 1928 it had evolved…
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