Somers House, 225 Beach Road, Blackrock, Vic

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Description: This is an image of Somers House (also called Swinburne House), which was used by the Victoria Children's Aid Society as a children's home from 1968 to 1985. The image shows a large single-storey wooden house with a sign out the front the reads "Country Women's Association of Victoria, Somers House Holiday Flats, Car Entrance at Rear".
From Date: c. 1920
To Date: c. 1954
Source: State Library of Victoria
Rights: This work is out of copyright
Archival Reference: SLV Accession no H32492/4523; Rose series P.3270
External URL: http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/61977

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