‘Belmont Cottage’ is an image of a home run by Parkerville Children’s Home and then by Parkerville Children and Youth Care Inc.
‘Penny Jones House is an image of a home run by Parkerville Children’s Home and then by Parkerville Children and Youth Care Inc. It was called Jenny House from 1994 to 2008, and then was called Penny Jones House.
Wollaston is a digital copy of an image held by Global Mission Partners in the Churches of Christ Federal Aborigines Mission Board Photographs collection. Historian Deslee Moyle confirms that the image was taken in the early 1980s.
These are two images of boys working at the Shiloh Home, which were published in Lawrence Whitmore’s ‘The Problem Child at Shiloh’. The top image shows a boy kneeling on the ground and plucking a chicken. The caption reads ‘Poultry is added to the menu’. The bottom image shows three boys guiding a calf towards…
‘Gilmore House’ is an image from Google Maps. It shows the building that housed the government-run Gilmore House group home from 1988 to around 1990. When this image was taken, the building was being used by the Moorditj Koort Aboriginal Health and Wellness Centre Kwinana and Rockingham.
‘Girls’ Dormitory, Pallottine Mission’ is an image published on the Society of the Catholic Apostolate webpage ‘Pallottine History – Pallottine Mission School’. It shows an internal view of the girls’ dormitory in 1948, at the mission at Tardun.
This is an image of the Shiloh Home published in Lawrence Whitmore’s ‘The Problem Child at Shiloh’. It shows a single-storey pink house with a row of tall flowers and sheep standing in front of it.
This is a photograph of the Victoria Park (Riverbank) Annexe, showing a two-storey red-brick building with cream coloured gable decorations. The photograph was taken by former resident Frankie Panaia, and published on his webpage ‘State Wards Perth Australia’. ‘State wards Perth Australia’ was a collection of images compiled by Frankie Panaia. The collection included historic…
This is a photograph of Riverbank, showing the front of the buildings behind a security fence. The photograph was taken by former resident Frankie Panaia, and published on his webpage ‘State Wards Perth Australia’. ‘State wards Perth Australia’ was a collection of images compiled by Frankie Panaia. The collection included historic images from official sources…
This is a digitised copy of a positive and is part of the Richard Woldendorp collection of photographs, held by the State Library of Western Australia. Although taken decades after Forrest River Mission closed, the image gives a sense of the remoteness of the mission and its overall location.
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