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Western Australia - Organisation
Padbury Boys' Farm School (1946 - 1955)
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Padbury Farm 1946 The first buildings and home garden, 1988, courtesy of Perth Diocesan Trustees, Anglican Church of Australia, Please see page 140.
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- From
- 1946
- To
- 1955
- Categories
- Farm School, Anglican, Home, Protestant, Receiving Agency
The Padbury Boys' Farm School was run by the Anglican Orphanages Committee as part of Swan Homes from 1946 to 1955, on land owned by the Anglican church in Stoneville. Boys were sent there to gain training and experience in farm work.
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The Padbury Boys' Farm School at Stoneville was part of the Swan Homes complex, established in 1946 to provide agricultural training to boys from Swan Homes. It was named in honour of two benefactors of Swan Homes: Mr Walter Padbury and his nephew, Matthew Padbury. Boys old enough to be 'trainees' were at first accepted to Padbury, but after 1948 'schoolboys' were also sent there. Boys cleared the land, erected buildings, worked on the farm, and helped put out bush-fires in the community.
School-age boys attended the Mt Helena Area School.
In 1955, the Padbury Boys' Farm School was closed, for financial reasons.
The Padbury Boys' Farm School was mentioned in the Lost Innocents Report (2001) as an institution involved in the migration of children to Australia.
Locations
- 1946 - 1955
- Location - Padbury Boys' Farm School was situated on 360 acres of land at off Stoneville Road, Stoneville
- Series Title
- Files - Child Welfare, State Records Office of Western Australia (1917 - 1972)
- Date Range
- 1917 - 1972
- Reference
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3172
[State Records Office of Western Australia Series Number]
- Contact
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For access to records controlled by the Department of Communities and its predecessors, please contact the Department of Communities Freedom of Information Unit:
Postal Address: Freedom of Information, Department of Communities, Locked Bag 5000, Fremantle WA 6959
Phone: (08) 6414 3344
Email: foi@communities.wa.gov.au
Website :https://www.wa.gov.au/government/document-collections/department-of-communities-freedom-of-information-foi
DETAILS
- Item Title
- Hillston - Minutes of the Diocesan Trustees [excerpt], Anglican Diocese of Perth (1953 - 1960)
- Date Range
- 1953 - 1960
- Reference
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2009/00043/015 VolB9
[Anglican Diocese of Perth Archive Reference Number]
- Contact
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Please contact the Archivist at Anglican Diocese Archives (The archivist is employed full-time but access to the archives is by appointment only, please arrange at least the day before you wish to access the archives):
Address: 58 Yule Avenue, Middle Swan WA 6056
Phone: (08) 9425 7243
Fax: (08) 9374 5699
Email: archives@perth.anglican.org
Website:http://www.perth.anglican.org/resources/diocesan-archives/
DETAILS
- Collection Title
- Anglican Diocese of Perth, Western Australia, Records (1880s - 2010)
- Date Range
- 1880 - 2010
- Reference
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- Contact
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Please contact the Archivist at Anglican Diocese Archives (The archivist is employed full-time but access to the archives is by appointment only, please arrange at least the day before you wish to access the archives):
Address: 58 Yule Avenue, Middle Swan WA 6056
Phone: (08) 9425 7243
Fax: (08) 9374 5699
Email: archives@perth.anglican.org
Website:http://www.perth.anglican.org/resources/diocesan-archives/
DETAILS
- Item Title
- Ken Pound interviewed by Gwenda Davey in the Forgotten Australians and Former Child Migrants oral history project (2010)
- Date Range
- 2010 - 2010
- Reference
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5039271
[National Library of Australia Bib ID]
- Contact
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Please contact a Librarian at Reader Services, National Library of Australia:
Address: National Library of Australia, Canberra ACT 2600
Phone: (02) 6262 1266
Fax: (02) 6273 5081
Website: http://www.nla.gov.au/askalibrarian/
DETAILS
- Collection Title
- Perth Protestant Orphanage / Perth Anglican Orphanages, State Library of Western Australia (1872 - 1955)
- Date Range
- 1872 - 1955
- Reference
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MN 614/Perth Orphanages
[State Library of Western Australia Call Number]
- Contact
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Please contact the State Library of Western Australia:
Postal address: 25 Francis Street, Perth WA 6000
Phone: (08) 9427 3111
Email: info@slwa.wa.gov.au
Website: http://www.slwa.wa.gov.au
DETAILS
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