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A colour image showing a large house with a corrugated room with overgrown grass in front.

Coogee Beach Home

This is a photograph of the Coogee Seaside House taken in 2001 by former resident Margaret Chomel.

An image of a large house with a verandah with cars in front of it.

Coogee Seaside Home

This is a photograph of the Coogee Seaside House taken by former resident Margaret Chomel. Margaret provided information that the area running along the side of the house was previously enclosed and this is where the girls slept.

Extant Sunbury industrial school ‘barracks’, currently used by the Sunbury Primary School and the Sunbury and Macedon Ranges Specialist School

This is a copy of a photograph of a bluestone building on the former site of the Sunbury Industrial School, taken in 2021, and published in an article by Russell Spencer in the Victorian Historical Journal in 2023.

Immigrants’ Home

The Immigrants’ Home was the name that early colonists gave to ramshackle buildings on either side of St Kilda Road south of Princes Bridge (Swain). This was where the Immigrants’ Aid Society provided aid to new arrivals to the colony of Victoria, later expanding its activities beyond this. Over time, the Immigrants’ Home came to…

Immigrants’ Aid Society

The Immigrants’ Aid Society came into being in May 1853. A non-government organisation, its initial purpose was to provide relief and information only to new arrivals to the colony of Victoria, though its activities quickly expanded beyond providing aid to poor immigrants. Before the colonial government passed the Neglected and Criminal Children’s Act in 1864…

Immigrants’ Home, and swamp near Princes Bridge

This is a copy of a drawing showing the Immigrants’ Home in Melbourne, dated 1883.

Children’s Registry, Bendigo Industrial School

Children’s Registry, Bendigo Industrial School (1868-1885) is a record created by the Sandhurst Industrial School which was within the grounds of the Bendigo Benevolent Asylum. It contains information about children admitted to the Industrial School, including their names, ID number, date of admission to the school, sex, date of birth, religion, term of commitment (length…

Ngala Mothercraft Centre, 1988

This is a photograph of the Ngal-a Mothercraft Centre in 1988. It shows a series of two-storey buildings set amongst tall trees, with various pieces of children’s play equipment located around the grounds. The boundary of the site is marked by a tall chain link fence.

Colour photograph showing interior of a lounge area, with rainbow painted on the wall, couch and table.

Interior of Banksia Flats, Basil Stafford Centre

This is an image of the interior of one of the Banksia Flats buildings, part of the Basil Stafford Centre, taken in 2009 as part of the heritage listing of the Wolston Park complex. There are more photographs available at the State Library of Queensland link.

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Exterior of Banskia Flats, Basil Stafford Centre

This is an image of the Banksia Flats, part of the Basil Stafford Centre, taken in 2009 as part of the heritage listing of the Wolston Park complex. There are more photographs available at the State Library of Queensland link.