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Boys working in the vegetable patch at Kennerley Boys’ Home

Landscape view of the Kennerley Boys’ Home at Lansdowne Crescent, West Hobart.

‘Tresca’

Caption from National Archives of Australia: Immigration – Child migration schemes – The Fairbridge Society this month extended its child migration scheme to Tasmania. The Society has taken over and modernised “Tresca” near Launceston. This wil be in addition to farms schools for British migrant children at Molong, NSW and at Pinjarra, WA. The society…

Infant Orphan School

Devastation after the laundry boiler explosion at Mt St Canice, Hobart, 5 September 1974

This is a copy of an image published in the book, Pitch your tents on distant shores (2010)