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The boys from Castle Hill House leave for school

This is a copy of an image that appeared in the Child Welfare Department of New South Wales Annual Report of 1961.

Posture chairs and sandbags help the physical development of handicapped babies – a scene in one of the sunny courtyards featured in the design of Brush Farm Infants Home [original caption]

This is a copy of an image that appeared in the Child Welfare Department of New South Wales Annual Report of 1970.

Brush Farm

This is a scan of an image from the cover of a 1978 NSW Treasury report into the costs of building and maintaining NSW Child Welfare Department buildings. It was chosen to illustrate the structure as an example of modern architecture.

Intellectually handicapped girls at Brush Farm make good use of a swimming pool provided with the assistance of Eastwood Rotary Club and the manufacturer [original caption]

This is a copy of an image that appeared in the Child Welfare Department of New South Wales Annual Report of 1970.

Brush Farm playing area

This is a copy of an image that appeared in the Child Welfare Department of New South Wales Annual Report of 1966.

The high staff-inmate ratio at Brush Farm Infants Home enables close attention to be given to the developmental needs of each child [original caption]

This is a copy of an image that appeared in the Child Welfare Department of New South Wales Annual Report of 1970.

The new cottages and school buildings at Brush Farm

This is a copy of an image that appeared in the Child Welfare Department of New South Wales Annual Report of 1965.

Brush Farm Home

This is a copy of an image that appeared in the Child Welfare Department of New South Wales Annual Report of 1959.

House parents and girls in a Brush Farm Dormitory

This is a copy of an image that appeared in the Child Welfare Department of New South Wales Annual Report of 1968.