This is an image of Harelands, a large house in Kew from which Melbourne Legacy ran a children’s hostel also called Harelands. The hostel was later renamed Blamey House. This photo is undated, the date included is an estimate.
This is a copy of an image from an article published in the Argus in 1948. The caption reads: “The Kindergarten Cottage for the new Methodist Children’s Home, Wattle Park; Bates, Smart and McCutcheon, architects”.
This image appeared in the Methodist Spectator newspaper on 23 December 1910. In the monthly notes about Livingstone Home (an early name for Methodist Homes for Children), Ada Egglestone wrote ‘Three of our babies appear, as a deputation, this month, to convey Xmas greetings to all the friends and helpers of Livingstone Home’.
This image appeared in the Methodist Spectator newspaper on 22 October 1903. Fannie E. Webb, in her ‘Livingstone Home letter’ in the newspaper described the [unnamed] boy as ‘a fine, sturdy little fellow’.
This image appeared in the Methodist Spectator newspaper on 21 July 1905. It is of a child named Douglas, aged 20 months, described by Elza M. Presley in her monthly notes about the Methodist Homes for Children as a ‘beautiful little fellow, whose appearance we feel sure will captivate someone. We would again point out…
This image appeared in the Methodist Spectator newspaper on 12 May 1899. ‘Livingstone Home’ was an early name for the Methodist Homes for Children in Cheltenham.
This is an image which was published in the Mission to the Streets and Lanes’ newsletter, In our midst in 1915. It shows a building adjacent to the Children’s Home in Brighton which the committee had recently purchased, with plans for it to become a new babies’ home.
This is an image which was published in the Mission to the Streets and Lanes’ newsletter, In our midst in April 1903.
The former St Aidan’s Orphanage was classified by the National Trust in 2000.
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