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By Gabbi Rose (guest author) on 10 November, 2011
Gabbi Rose shares photographs from the reunion of former inmates of the Winlaton Youth Training Centre, held at Open Place, Melbourne, on 29 October, 2011. Read more >
Posted in events, Forgotten Australians, memories, photos | Tagged photographs, prisons, Victoria, Winlaton
By Graham Evans (guest author) on 23 September, 2011
Graham Evans shares a photograph of the St Vincent’s choir in 1962. Read more >
Posted in Forgotten Australians, memories, photos | Tagged New South Wales, performance, photographs, St Vincent's
By karolina on 23 September, 2011
‘Where the little inmates are permitted to grow up natural and normal human beings.’ ‘Inside’ assistant curator Karolina Kilian came across a 1933 ‘Australian Women’s Weekly’ article about the Church of England Homes for Children. Read more >
Posted in articles/lectures, documents, Forgotten Australians, photos | Tagged Australian Women's Weekly, Carlingford, Church of England, Havilah, Leura, New South Wales, photographs
By Josephine Littlehawk (guest author) on 15 September, 2011
Josephine Littlehawk generously donated her scrapbook to the National Museum of Australia. It contains photographs and memorabilia relating to her childhood at St Joseph’s Orphanage Goulburn and recent inquiries, apologies and memorials. Read more >
Posted in documents, events, Forgotten Australians, memories | Tagged apology, files/records, identity, memorial, New South Wales, photographs, South Australia, St Joseph's
By Adele on 5 September, 2011
Sally Pryor, from ‘The Canberra Times’, reported on last week’s talk by Alfred Fletcher, author of ‘Brutal’, at the National Museum of Australia. Read more >
Posted in articles/lectures, events, Forgotten Australians, memories, photos | Tagged autobiography, photographs, Queensland, Westbrook
By Ann McVeigh (guest author) on 2 August, 2011
‘My identity was stolen from me’. Child Migrant Ann McVeigh shares her personal history and photographs of St Joseph’s Orphanage, Subiaco (now Wembley), WA. Read more >
Posted in Child Migrants, photos | Tagged child labour, education, family, files/records, friendship, identity, laundry, photographs, prisons, sexual abuse, St Joseph's, Western Australia
By Coral Miller (guest author) on 21 June, 2011
Coral Miller shares photographs of St Brigid’s Girls Home, Ryde, NSW. Coral and her sister were sent to St Brigid’s for five years after their mother had a breakdown when their father was killed in Malaya at the Parit Sulong Massacre. Read more >
Posted in Forgotten Australians, memories, photos | Tagged family, New South Wales, photographs, Sisters of Mercy, St Brigid's
By Alan Bowles (guest author) on 3 June, 2011
Alan Bowles, who grew up in a Salvation Army Home, shares the song he wrote and performed at the unveiling of the Victorian memorial to Forgotten Australians, in Melbourne on 25 October 2010. Read more >
Posted in events, Forgotten Australians, memories, music, photos | Tagged memorial, photographs, Salvation Army, song, Victoria
By Diane Tronc (guest author) on 1 June, 2011
Silky Oaks Children’s Home was founded by the Open Brethren and first opened in Toowong, Brisbane, Queensland in 1940. In 1946 the Home was relocated to Manly. Former Silky Oaks resident Diane Tronc shares historical photos of the Home and the May 2011 Silky Oaks Reunion. Read more >
Posted in Forgotten Australians, memories, photos | Tagged friendship, photographs, play, Queensland, reunion, Silky Oaks
By Heather Templeman (guest author) on 31 May, 2011
Heather Templeman shares a photo and memories of cleaning the floor at Catherine Booth Salvation Army Girls Home. Read more >
Posted in Forgotten Australians, memories, photos | Tagged Catherine Booth Girls Home, child labour, East Kew, friendship, photographs, Salvation Army, Victoria
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