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29 Second Avenue, Klemzig

This is a copy of a photograph of the former site of the Klemzig Family Home (1973-1980), published on a real estate website when the property was on the market in 2013.

St Joseph’s Convent – Croydon

This is an photo of the building that housed St Joseph’s Home for Children at Liverpool Road, Croydon. The photo shows a large, grey-rendered stone building with a central turret directly above the entrance. A small copper plaque can be see on the front of the building which, as shown in another photograph published by…

Chapel at Boys’ Town, Engadine, ca.1950s

This is a black and white image of Boys’ Town, Engadine. The photograph shows the chapel (centre) and surrounding buildings and gardens. Two boys can be seen walking up the path between the buildings.

Proposed New Babies’ Home

This is a black and white image of the Darling Babies’ Home at a mansion known as ‘Yarrayne’. It shows a large family home surrounded by gardens. The house has several gables, including one with windows for an upper-storey room. One of the ends of the house appears to be covered in ivy. This image…

Entrance gates to Boys’ Town, Engadine, ca. 1950s

This is a black and white image of the entrance to Boys’ Town, Engadine. The photograph shows the driveway and front gates, which include signs which read ‘Boys Town’, ‘Father Dunlea’, and a sign behind the fence stating ‘Visitors Welcome’. Behind the gates, three or four buildings are visible situated among several large eucalyptus trees.

Dormitory at the Salvation Army Home

This is a photograph of a dormitory at the Salvation Army Boys’ Home at Collie, Western Australia. It shows two long rows of steel-framed beds packed tightly together in a long, high ceilinged dormitory room. A side-table with a pot-plant on it has been placed in the walkway between the rows of beds, likely as…

The Senior girls song, Kildonan Burwood

This is an excerpt from the Uniting Heritage newsletter from March 2020. It shows a handwritten version of the lyrics of a song sung by the Senior girls at Kildonan in the years following World War Two. At a reunion in 2018, Bev and Nancy recollected about the songs they had sung as children at…

Infants Home right foreground, corner Turbot and Edward Streets, Parliament House in background (centre) – Brisbane

This is a photograph of central Brisbane, containing the Female Refuge and Infants Home in the foreground on the right hand side of the photo. It shows the Home as a two-storey brick and stone building with a front verandah, and three gable-windows on the upper storey. The home is located on slightly higher ground…

Site of first Diamantina orphanage, Roma St. Brisbane

This is a photograph of the Diamantina orphanage at Roma St, Brisbane. It shows a series of three or four single-storey buildings on the top of a hill, surrounded by woodland, with the Mount Cootha range visible in the background.

Wahroonga Baptist Family Group Home. Rockhampton 1979

This is a photograph of the Wahroonga Family Group Home, taken in 1979. It shows a large two-storey brick house with a van in the driveway.