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Nunawading Youth Residential Centre, 1993

This is a copy of a photograph published on the Finding Records website, on the page ‘Nunawading Youth Residential Centre history in brief’, showing the front entrance.

Leawarra Hostel, Nunawading Youth Residential Centre. Photograph taken during the closure of Nunawading Youth Residential Centre, 1993

This is a copy of a photograph published on the Finding Records website, on the page ‘Nunawading Youth Residential Centre history in brief’.

Royal Park, training school and benevolent home for homeless children 1874-5

This is a copy of a photograph of buildings that once were the Royal Park Industrial School (and after that housed other institutions).

Sunbury Industrial School Children

This is a copy of a photograph of a monument in Sunbury Cemetery, commemorating the children – buried in unmarked graves – who died at the Sunbury Industrial School between August 1865 and November 1878.

Houses in Finsbury Street, Flemington

This photograph shows houses in Finsbury Street, Flemington that were purchased by St Joseph’s Home for Children in the 1980s and used as family group residential care. The image is published in a blog post by Frank Golding from 2017 about the history of children’s Homes in the North Melbourne area.

St Joseph’s shopfront, Pin Oak Crescent, Flemington

This is a copy of a photograph of the shops where staff of St Joseph’s Home for Chidlren were based from the 1980s

Beaconsfield Babies’ Home

This is a copy of an image of Beaconsfield Babies’ Home.

Lisa Lodge

This is a copy of an image of Lisa Lodge when it was located in Cobden Street, Mount Pleasant, Ballarat.

‘Girls flee blaze: Lisa Lodge refuge seriously damaged’

This is a copy of the front page of the Ballarat Courier on 5 June 1992. It is an illustrated report about a fire at Lisa Lodge refuge. Alternative accommodation had to be found for the young women who lived there. The article states that the Victorian house in Barkly Street, Ballarat ‘contains three bedrooms,…

Lisa Lodge

This is a copy of an image of the exterior of a building in Barkly Street, Ballarat, the site of Lisa Lodge Girls’ Hostel.