Please contact Picture South Perth: Email: localhistory@southperth.wa.gov.au
South Perth Library is located in South Perth, Western Australia and was established on 8 March 1960. It is one of two City of South Perth libraries. The library holds a large collection that contains digital and traditional items, including, books, music CDs, DVDs, talking books, magazines and photos. Also housed at the South Perth…
Please contact the Community History Librarian, Grove Library: Postal address: 1 Leake Street, Peppermint Grove WA 6011 Phone: (08) 9286 8686 Email: history@thegrovelibrary.com Website: https://thegrove.imagegallery.me/site/welcome.me
Warburton Mission is a collection of 120 coloured slides created by Mervyn Young between 1958 and 1961 when he was a missionary at Warburton Mission. The slides are held by the State Library of Western Australia and the collection is made up of 3 groups of photos which have digitised versions of the images available…
The Community History Images Collection is an online collection of historical images. The collecion is part of the Community History Library which is a section of the The Grove Library. The collection includes photos of people, places and events in Cottesloe, Mosman Park and Peppermint Grove from the 1890’s to the present day. As at…
The Picture South Perth Photograph Collection is an online collection of digitised historic images dating from the 1870s to the 2000s. It was created by the City of South Perth and as at 2015 the collection has over 1500 images. The collection includes photos of Ngal-a Mothercraft Home and Training Centre Inc and Clontarf in…
The Department of Local Government and Communities was established on 1 July 2013. It was previously known as the Department of Communities. The Department ran the Country High School Hostels Ex-Gratia Scheme until December 2013. On 1 June 2017, the Department of Local Government and Communities’ functions were dividied between two new departments – Department…
The Hillview Child and Adolescent Clinic, in East Victoria Park, was established around 1985 as a government-run psychiatric service for voluntary patients aged 8 to 18 years. It had three components: an outpatient clinic, a 6-bed residential unit known as the WE Robinson Unit, and a 12-bed residential unit known as Hillview Hospital. Hillview closed…
Baptist Aboriginal Ministries was the new name given in 1981 to the Baptist Aborigines Mission. Baptist Aboriginal Ministries (B.A.M.) was the Aboriginal welfare agency of the Baptist Union of WA until the B.A.M. was formally discontinued at the Annual Assembly of Baptist Churches in October 1991.
Jibson House in South Hedland was established in 2011 as a government-run residential group home. It was in the same premises as the South Hedland Group Home. Jibson House had closed by 2014 and in that year the premises were being used for the Port Hedland Lifeskills Office of the Department for Child Protection and…
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