The Salvation Army has occupied this site since 1897. The avenue of pines was planted c.1920s.
This description was supplied with the photograph and included in the library catalogue: There are sixteen of these slab and bark roofed huts and a dining shed and quarters. The buildings were all erected by the boys seen in the photograph who are from Baramba and Myora.
This is part of the description that was supplied with the photograph and included in the library catalogue: The kitchens in the centre and dining rooms each side. Bathrooms at back also laundry and stables.
This description was supplied with the photograph and included in the library catalogue: The new lazarette on Peel Island – men’s quarters; kitchen and dining room each side, and three of the men’s huts.
This image was included in the article ‘Excessive force by staff injuring teens at youth detention centres’ in The Courier-Mail on 11 November 2012.
This image is from page 104 of the Report of the Commission of Inquiry into Child Abuse in Queensland institutions and the image is an Inquiry photograph.