This image shows some of the buildings on the St Augustine’s site, seen from Aphrasia Street. According to the St Joseph’s College archivist, the buildings seen here were not used as accommodation for St Augustine’s, but instead were used as the boarding section for the college.
Image published in the Illustrated Australian News. Includes oval portraits of Mr. Exon, bust, to left, and Mrs. Wooton, half-length, to right; front of the building with boys and girls standing in rows; two children milking, four boys sitting on the fence behind them watching; cots, cradles, cast-iron beds in the dormitory.
Image published in the Illustrated Australian News. Shows group of young girls, wearing white smocks and straw hats, playing with dolls and prams.
This engraving appeared in the Illustrated Australian News.
The building was situated at Herne Hill, Geelong. Built in 1885 and vacated in 1933, when the Orphanage moved to new premises at Belmont, Geelong.
This image was provided as part of the article ‘Bimberi whistleblower fears death in custody’ on ABC News on 29 March 2011.
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