Please contact the Archivist, Uniting Church (Synod of Western Australia) Archives: Postal Address: GPO Box M952, Perth WA 6843 Phone: (08) 9260 9800 Email: archiveswa@wa.uca.org.au Website: https://unitingchurchwa.org.au/congregation-hub/congregation-resources/archives/
Please contact Fostering and Adoption Services (Past Adoption Information and Services): Postal Address: Locked Bag 5000, Fremantle WA 6160 Phone: 1800 182 178 Email: adoptions@communities.wa.gov.au Website: https://www.wa.gov.au/organisation/department-of-communities/past-adoption-information-and-services
Please contact the Health Information Manager, St John of God Hospital Subiaco: Address: PO Box 14, Subiaco WA 6904 Phone: (08) 9382 6111 Email: subiaco.records@sjog.org.au Website: https://www.sjog.org.au/patients-and-visitors/privacy
Please contact the State Library of Western Australia: Postal address: 25 Francis Street, Perth WA 6000 Phone: (08) 9427 3111 Email:info@slwa.wa.gov.au Website: http://www.slwa.wa.gov.au
Please contact Aboriginal History Research Services, Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries: Postal Address: PO Box 8349, Perth Business Centre WA 6849 Phone: 1800 161 301 Email: ahrs@dlgsc.wa.gov.au Website : https://www.dlgsc.wa.gov.au/aboriginal-culture/aboriginal-history#Aboriginal_History_Research_Service_AHRS
Please contact the State Records Office of Western Australia: Postal Address: 25 Francis Street, Perth, WA 6000 Phone: (08) 9427 3600 Email: sro@sro.wa.gov.au Website: https://www.wa.gov.au/organisation/state-records-office-of-western-australia/research-using-state-archives
The Metropolitan Infectious Diseases began 1938 in Subiaco (later known as Shenton Park). It was previously the Victoria Hospital for Infectious Diseases. The Hospital offered rehabilitation for patients with polio and paraplegia. From 1956 it was known as the Shenton Park Annexe. After 1938 the focus of the Metropolitan Infectious Diseases Hospital encompassed the rehabilitation…
The Salvation Army Home for Neglected Girls was established in 1894 in Claisebrook Road, Perth (East Perth), for women and girls with a range of needs. The Home moved to Summers Street, East Perth in 1895. In 1898, new premises were built and the Home moved to Cornelie House in Lincoln Street (North Perth, Highgate)….
Cornelie Home was the name given in 1898 to the Salvation Army’s rescue Home when it moved to North Perth (Highgate) from Perth (East Perth). It accommodated single mothers, pregnant women, elderly women and women who had been released from prison. In 1903 the maternity program transferred to The Open Door, (which later became ‘Hillcrest’),…
A Government Industrial School was established in 1893 at Claisebrook, and moved to Subiaco in 1897. It was originally for girls, and was then used for older children and for the ‘temporary reception’ of children awaiting other placements. By 1902 it was called the ‘Government Industrial School and Receiving Depot’ and by 1907 it was…
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