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Girls’ Training Home for Domestic Service. Berry Street, East Melbourne.

This is a copy of a brochure about the Training Home for Girls, made available on the website of the East Melbourne Historical Society. The brochure contains information about the institution and a number of photographs of young women who lived there. The photograph of the building appears on the back page of the brochure.

Nazareth House Reunion

The former resident who supplied this photo included the following description: This is a photo was taken at a 2007 Nazareth House reunion. The photo shows the statue that we stood in front of on our communion day, it is still there.

Nazareth House Choir

The former resident who supplied this photo included the following description: This is a photo of the choir taken in 1964. The Nazareth House choir used to enter the South St Competitions every year in September.

Two-way Cool-off [Nazareth House, Ballarat]

This is a copy of a newspaper clipping from 1963 or 1964, showing a group of children from Nazareth House, Ballarat, who were at a swimming pool. Gabrielle Short, a former resident of Nazareth House, kindly supplied this image to Find & Connect. She wrote this about the photograph: “This photo was another display of…

Nazareth House Christmas Concert

The former resident who supplied this photo included the following description: This photo was taken in December 1963 just before the annual Christmas Concert. The Bishop of Ballarat Bishop Collins used to attend, he used to sit at the front in the middle, and as our names were called out to receive a Christmas present…

Janefield Training Centre

This is a copy of a photograph of Janefield Training Centre, taken from a publication by the Mental Health Authority.

Entry to the Baltara Reception Centre

This is a copy of a photograph on the Finding Records website, from around the 1970s.

Mural within the Winlaton Training Centre compound

This is a copy of an image of a ‘public images’ mural in the Winlaton compound. According to the ‘Finding Records’ website, the mural was painted by staff and young women in 1983. The project was funded by the Victorian Ministry for the Arts.

Swinburne House, Victorian Children’s Aid Society, Leonard Street, Parkville, Victoria.

This is a copy of a photograph from 1965 held by the University of Melbourne Archives, showing the Victorian Children’s Aid Society Home in Parkville.

Matron Buivids with some of her ‘family’ of migrant children at the Lutheran Peace Memorial Home

This is a copy of a photograph published in The Age in 1954, showing a group of residents and the Matron, posing in the garden of the Lutheran Children’s Home.