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Stead House

Stead House was the main building of the former Hopeleigh Maternity Home in Marrickville, which was run by the Salvation Army.

Hopeleigh 1915

This image shows the building where Hopeleigh Maternity Home operated. The building was later converted to Stead House.

Bethesda Maternity Hospital 1927

This image shows the building where Hopeleigh Maternity Home operated. The building was later converted to Stead House.

Back to Cootamundra

[This description was taken from the caption published on the SBS Living Black channel on YouTube. This episode aired on 9 June 2012] Its been a long journey of healing for former residents of the Cootamundra Girls Home in southern New South Wales. But nearly a hundred years after it opened members of the stolen…

St. Brigid’s Convent and Orphanage, Ryde, New South Wales

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

New St Margaret’s Hospital Block, opened 1951

This is a digital copy of an image reproduced in K.E. Burford’s Unfurrowed Fields.

The presbytery at Kincumber where the sisters and 22 boys from the Providence, Dawes Point, took up residence in 1887

This is a copy of an image reproduced in K.E. Burford’s Unfurrowed Fields.

The opening of St Martha’s Industrial Home, Leichhardt, 1890

This is a copy of an image reproduced in K.E. Burford’s Unfurrowed Fields.

“Shaftesbury” South Head Home for mothers and their babies

This is a copy of an image that appeared in the State Children Relief Board Report for the year ended 5 April, 1914. The image shows the back of the building where Shaftesbury Home for Babies and Mothers operated.