This description was supplied with the photograph and included in the library catalogue: Queensland Government’s new Epileptic Home at Willowburn, Toowoomba, was officially opened by her Excellency Lady Goold Adams. The institution covers an area of 440ft. by 440ft., and cost 26,562 pounds to erect. There is accommodation for no fewer than 80 patients. One…
The library catalogue includes this description: Many large buildings are contained in the grounds of the Asylum for the Insane.
This description was supplied with the photograph and included in the library catalogue: Westbrook State farm, Henry A. Tardent, was the founder and first manager. Around the turn of the century half of the State Farm was used for a boy’s reformatory and in about 1910 – 1919, the State Farm became solely a reformatory…
This is a transcript of The General Report on Condition and Progress of the Westbrook Reformatory for Boys, written by Superintendent of Westbrook Walter Richmond in 1910. It provides a brief history of the Reformatory, and descriptions of farming activities undertaken by the boys, the health of the boys, and their education and employment.
The library catalogue includes this description: Westbrook State Farm situated west of Toowoomba.
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