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Convict Hulk Success at Williamstown

The former prison hulk HM Success was the site of a reformatory for boys.

Bottle sterilising rack, Methodist Babies’ Home

Museum Victoria’s ‘The story of Melbourne’ exhibition features a bottle sterilising rack used at Methodist Babies’ Home from 1929. This webpage is no longer in operation. this URL is taken from the wayback machine and is dated 13 March 2018.

At the Gordon Institute

Published in the Australasian Sketcher.

The Melbourne Orphanage

Image published in the Illustrated Australian News. Shows group of young girls in smocks, others dressed for travelling, standing at the entrance to the orphanage.