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Oakleigh Convent and Church

Photo of the Priest’s house at the Convent of the Good Shepherd, Oakleigh.

Oakleigh Convent and Church

Copy of a view of the chapel and the convent at the Convent of the Good Shepherd Oakleigh.

Oakleigh Convent and Church

Photo of the chapel and the convent at the Convent of the Good Shepherd Oakleigh.

Oakleigh Convent and Church

Photo of the Convent of the Good Shepherd, Oakleigh, taken from across Dandenong Road. The caption reads “Oakleigh Convent. View taken from a tree across Dandenong Rd. 1931. (White advertisement Board taken down later)”

Oakleigh Convent and Church

Photo of the opening of the chapel at the Convent of the Good Shepherd, Oakleigh.

Convent of the Good Shepherd, Oakleigh: Chapel and Orchard

The postcard shows the view towards the Chapel and Orchard of the Convent of the Good Shepherd on Castlebar Road, Chadstone.

Former Protestant Orphan Asylum and Common School, Geelong

Protestant Orphan Asylum at 150-220 McCurdy Rd, Fyansford, Greater Geelong City.

Presbyterian Babies’ Home, Melbourne: Wartime air raid practice

Caption reads, ‘Windows of the Presbyterian Babies’ Home made shatterproof by lining them with cot mattresses. The children are sitting quietly on stretchers during air raid practice.’

Three Korean nurses have been studying hospitals, nursing administration and nursing training in Australia.

They are Miss Kim Keum, of the Severance School of Nursing, Seoul; Mrs Lee Kwi Hyung, Director of National University School of Nursing and Miss Hong Young Sook, Chief Nurse at the Korean Red Cross Hospital in Seoul. In Melbourne they spent two weeks at the Presbyterian Babies’ Home, which cares for 50 babies –…

Opening of the Methodist Babies’ Home

This is a copy of an image published in The Argus on Monday 9 December 1929. The image shows the outside of the Methodist Babies’ Home and the crowds on its opening day. The original caption reads, ‘The new Methodist Babies’ Home, on a fine site overlooking the river at South Yarra was opened on…