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The dayroom at Alonnah as it looked in October 2012

The nurses’ station was higher than the dayroom so that nursing staff could look down on it. This established their authority.

An isolation cell in Alonnah, Royal Derwent Hospital, as it looked in October 2012

The heavy door which is lying on its side against the wall originally belonged to the cell. The windows had a shutter that could be closed at night. Many of the cells at Lachlan Park had the light switch outside the room so that residents had no control over it.

St David’s Church, Hobart.

St David’s Church, Hobart is a wood engraving measuring 8 x 11 cm. It was originally in the Picturesque atlas of Australasia. Vol. II p. 512, published by the Picturesque Atlas Publishing Company in 1886. St David’s Church later became St David’s Cathedral.

Northern Tasmanian Home for Boys at Glenara – view from the back

This photograph was taken on the opening day of the Northern Tasmanian Home for Boys. Weekly Courier, 22 December 1921, p. 23

Northern Tasmanian Home for Boys at Glenara – view from the front

This photograph was taken on the opening day of the Northern Tasmanian Home for Boys. Weekly Courier, 22 December 1921, p. 23

Hobart from Magdalen Home Paddock

Photograph taken by Jack Thwaites.

Hobart from Magdalen Home Paddock – Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race

Photograph taken by Jack Thwaites.

The Glenorchy Infant Orphanage on its first anniversary in 1899

Weekly Courier, 15 July 1899, p. 18

The Normal School, later the Hobart Town Female Refuge, and then the Anchorage Home – before demolition

This photograph was taken just before the demolition of the Normal School in 1962. The building of the former Normal School was the first home of the Hobart Town Female Refuge. It became the Industrial School for Girls – Hobart.