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Stone Engraving – Home of Mercy and Good Shepherd Home, Midwood Street

The engraving reads: ‘AMDC: The Good Shepherd Home of Mercy’, indicating an alternative name for the Home of Mercy.

Millbrook Rise

Photograph taken by Mike Key

The Royal Derwent Hospital after it closed

Photographed by Korske Ara This webpage is no longer in operation. this URL is taken from the wayback machine and is dated 11 October 2018.

The original Barracks at the Insane Asylum

The Barracks housed patients until 1952.

Tresca boys put their clothes away after school

[Caption taken from the National Archives of Australia Recordsearch] Immigration – Child migration schemes – The Fairbridge Society has converted “Tresca”, Exeter, Tasmania, into a home for children from Britain. The new home is for children from broken homes, parentless children, or children with only one parent able to care for them. Tresca will accommodate…