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Hurlingham, Brighton

The Roman Catholic Convent and Female Orphanage

This is a photograph of the main building of Our Lady’s Orphanage, later known as st Catherine’s Orphanage, at Aphrasia Street, Newtown, Geelong. It shows a medium sized two-storey bluestone building with the main driveway leading up to it, and with a long single-storey range extending off to one side.

Looking Across a Lake and Lawns to the Orphanage at Bendigo

From the Collection: The biggest family album in Australia.

Try Society Halls, South Yarra [Hawksburn]

Black and white photoprint of the impressive two-storey buildings (since demolished) owned by the Try Society in Cromwell Road. A horse and jinker stands in the foreground. The Society was founded and managed by Mr William Forster.