This is an image of Berida Convalescent Home taken sometime before it was converted into Berida Junior Red Cross Home. It shows the ivy-covered front of the Home and the driveway approaching it, with a sign reading ‘Berida Convalescent Home’ in the foreground.
Trower Road Cottage opened in Rapid Creek in 1969. Run by Somerville Homes Incorporated it was one of six cottages which made up Somerville Cottage Homes. It accommodated up to eight children aged between 4 and 16 years under the supervision of cottage parents. Children from Croker Island were the first residents of the cottage….
The State Records Office of Western Australia holds a collection of records created by Whitby Falls Hospital. This collection includes records about patients, such as admission and discharge registers, address books, medical journals, and case books. It also includes other administrative records such as visitor registers, financial records, staff roster and meal registers, correspondence registers,…
The State Records Office of Western Australia holds a small collection of records created by Greenplace Hostel. The collection includes a Medical Journal, and an Admissions and Discharges register. Access Access to these records is restricted for 100 years. Please contact the Department of Health Freedom of Information Unit for permission to access restricted records….
The State Records Office of Western Australia holds a collection of records created by Claremont Mental Hospital. This collection includes record series relating to patients (including admissions, discharges, treatments, and case notes), visitors, staffing, farm management, photographs, and general administration and finances. These records relate to patients admitted to Claremont Mental Hospital, however they also…
The State Records Office of Western Australia holds a collection of records created by Fremantle Asylum. This collection includes record series relating to patients, including admissions, discharges, treatments, case notes, and “occurrences”. These records relate to patients admitted to Fremantle Asylum, however they also include some records relating to patients transferred to Claremont Mental Hospital….
Gilead Boys’ Home was established in Narrogin around 1973 to accommodate Aboriginal boys in a family atmosphere. In the mid-1970s Gilead was used as a single-family foster placement by the Department for Community Welfare, accommodating boys and girls. It was run by the Gilead Boys Home (Inc), with house parents living with the children. It…
Indentures (Guardianship) is a series of records created by the Child Welfare Department of Western Australia. It contains records about guardianship and custody of child migrants. The records consist of legal agreements between the Under Secretary for Lands and Immigration (who was the legal guardian of child migrants in Western Australia), and the children’s homes,…
Sister Edie Owens diary, 1940-1941 is a diary created by a Methodist Sister of the People who worked at the United Aborigines Mission, Gnowangerup. The hand-written diary gives Sr Edie Owens’ (later Cowdell) impressions of daily life at the mission. It is held by the State Library of Western Australia. The diary has entries for…
Schenk family papers is a collection of items donated by the Schenk family to the State Library of Western Australia. Roy Schenk established the Mount Margaret Mission as an Australian Aborigines Mission facility (it was later run by the United Aborigines Mission). The collection, which is described by a Manuscript Note, includes correspondence, diaries, historical…
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