This is a copy of a form used by the Commonwealth Department of Social Services in the 1970s to administer child endowment payments to institutions. This form was provided to the Find & Connect web resource by Berry Street’s Heritage and Background Information Service and has been redacted to protect the privacy of individuals.
This is a copy of an image from the collection of the Australian War Memorial. [From catalogue description:] Melbourne, VIC. 1942-06-10. Pupils of the St Anthony’s Babies Home, Kew, sit quietly in their sand bag and concrete shelter during an air raid precaution practice.
This is a copy of an image from the collection of the Australian War Memorial. [From catalogue description:] Melbourne, VIC. 11 August 1945. Children from the Victorian Children’s Home having rides in the pony cart during a children’s frolic held at the officer’s mess at Camp Pell.
This is an image of the building at 116 Fitzroy Street, Fitzroy. In the 1980s, it was a rooming house run by the Brotherhood of St Laurence, known as Millott House. This building is the former site of Mission House, the headquarters of the Mission to the Streets and Lanes.
This is a copy of a photograph in the Immigration Photographic Archive 1946-today, at the National Archives of Australia about the Providence Children’s Home, Bacchus Marsh.
This is a photograph of the building at 116 Fitzroy Street, Fitzroy, which was formerly Mission House, the headquarters of the Mission to the Streets and Lanes from around 1957 to around 1972. A number of single mothers were accommodated at Mission House during this period.
This is an image of a building which was formerly the Girls’ Memorial Home (1922-1973). The image was published in the Darebin Heritage Review 2000.
This is a copy of an image that illustrated an article in the Guardian following the release of the Betrayal of Trust report. Caption: ‘ A woman demonstrates outside the Victorian parliament during a rally of hope on Wednesday. The rally coincided with the release of Betrayal of Trust, the report into child abuse.’
This is a copy of an image that was part of the ‘On their own – Britain’s child migrants’ exhibition at the Immigration Museum in Melbourne from October 2011 to May 2012.
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