This photo shows a boy working at Bindoon, making bricks.
‘Memorial Cottage Roleystone’ is a photograph from the City of Armadale’s Municipal Heritage Inventory Review. It shows the building that Sister Kate’s Children’s Home used during the World War Two evacuation from the Queen’s Park site. At that time, the building was known as ‘Memorial Cottage’. This photograph shows how the building looked in 2008,…
This is a picture from a 1954 article in the Sunday Times newspaper titled ‘Mt. Lawley Reception Home’s Detention Methods Are Primitive – But They Have A Tough Job’. It shows the Child Welfare Reception Home as it looked in 1954, on the corner of Walcott and Lord Streets Mt Lawley.
This is a picture from the Sunday Times newspaper. It shows the Children’s Court in Irwin Street, Perth, getting a fresh coat of paint. From 1908, the Children’s Court dealt with ‘juvenile offenders’ as well as with other matters relating to children. When this picture was taken the Perth Children’s Court was in an old…
This is a copy of a photograph from the Sunday Times. It shows a crowd of children enjoying a Christmas Party which was held at Government House. A party was organised each year by the metropolitan boarding-out committee for children who were in out of home care in and around Perth, Western Australia.
This is a picture from an article in The West Australian newspaper, which is published on the National Library of Australia’s website, ‘Trove’. The picture illustrates a 1938 article about the history of child welfare in WA. It shows the old ‘Charities Department’ and some of its staff outside their building at 14 Pier Street,…
This is a picture from a 1954 article in the Sunday Times newspaper titled ‘Mt. Lawley Reception Home’s Detention Methods Are Primitive – But They Have A Tough Job’. The picture shows the ‘solitary confinement’ wing’ of the Child Welfare Reception Home at Mt Lawley, where ‘delinquent’ children were housed. The article condemned this practice…
This is a digitised copy of a photographic print and is part of the group of nine images titled ‘Fairbridge Farm School [picture] held at the State Library of Western Australia. The image shows one of the buildings at Fairbridge Farm School.
This is a photograph of the front entrance of Tuart Place in Fremantle, Western Australia. Tuart Place is a resource centre for people who have been in out of home care.
This is a picture of the logo that was on the newsletter of the Methodist Homes for Children,The ‘Homes’ Herald, from 1965 to 1978.
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