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Superintendent’s House, Westbrook, 1960s

This image shows the Superintendent’s House at Farm House for Boys, Westbrook and later, Westbrook Training Centre.

Alkira Salvation Army Home for Boys at Indooroopilly

This image of Alkira was published by ABC news on 27 March 2014 in the article Child sex abuse royal commission: Salvation Army abuse victim recalls rape and bashing. This photo is undated, the date included is an estimate.

Dormitory Buildings – Farm Home for Boys, Westbrook

This is a photograph of the dormitories at the Farm Home for Boys, Westbrook, taken in 1963. The photo, taken from above, shows a range of single-storey buildings at right-angles to each other, surrounding a central courtyard with an oval garden bed in the middle. Several boys are visible on the balcony of one of…

Marchant Pillar at the Montrose Home for Crippled Children

This photo is undated, the date included is an estimate.

View of Mitchell River Mission, 1919

The following description is included in the library catalogue: Moving a Mission in York Peninsula. New station at Kowanyama, Mitchell River. Reverend H. Matthews house on right, church in the distance.

Westbrook Farm Home

This is a clip from Eventide and Westbrook Farm Home: Brisbane City Mission, a film made to promote the social and charitable work of Brisbane City Mission in 1950. The description for this clip is: “The boys at Westbrook Farm Home for Boys in Queensland’s southeast sleep in open wards. The dormitories are connected to…

Salvation Army Maternity Hospital in Newstead, ca. 1910

This description was supplied with the photograph and included in the library catalogue: The Salvation Army Maternity Hospital in Breakfast Creek Rd, Newstead opened in 1897.