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Heritage & History Site Map
 [ 4 ] 1843 RCOS Outbuildings
[ 5 ] RCOS Cells/Lavatories;
GTS sewing room/Schoolroom Segregation/isolation cells
[10] RCOS Greenhouse
[11] RCOS unidentified
[12] RCOS Stables
[13] RCOS unidentified
[15] RCOS Store/Coalshed; PGH Store
[16] RCOS Gardener's Res
[17] RCOS Shed over tank
[18] RCOS hospital; PGH Bethel & segregation
cells
[19] 1862 RCOS unidentified
[23] 1887 Perimeter Wall
[25] 1936 GTS Dining; Cookery; Recreation
[27] c1940 Isolation Cells
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1821 Female Factory occupied.
1841 Government Orphanage Parramatta
built.
1844 Orphanage named Roman Catholic
Orphan School (RCOS)on arrival of children from Catholic Orphanage Waverley.
1847 Female Factory re-assigned
as Convict & Lunatic Establishment.
1866 The Industrial Schools
Act (Act for the Relief of Destitute Children) & Reformatories Schools Act passed.
1867 Establishment of boys
Nautical Training Ships moored at Cockatoo Island and the Newcastle Industrial School for Girls.
1869 Section of the Newcastle Industrial School was declared a Girls Reformatory 19 January.
1871 Newcastle closed
- Biloela Industrial School & Reformatory for females established on Cockatoo island 26th May 1871.
1880 Classification of
girls 'not corrupt' and otherwise saw relocation of Biloela Reformatory to a new site Shaftesbury Reformatory, Vaucluse
1887 Industrial School for Females, Parramatta (former RCOS) was declared on
1 April 1887. Biloela closed on 9th May with the transfer of girls to Parramatta
1897 Additional isolation
cells [5] designated
1898 First officially
investigated riot at Parramatta
1905 Girls below eight years ceased to be committed to the School
1912 Girls' Training Home, Parramatta proclaimed 31 January 1912 in
Hospital area (Bethel).This
Home was intended "for girls of an uncontrollable character, but not of immoral tendencies"
1925 Training School & Industrial
School merged and renamed Parramatta Girls Home PGH.
1928 Girls' Industrial School, La Perouse On 12 October 1928 an area of five acres
at Yarra Bay was proclaimed as an annex of Parramatta Girls Home.
1934 Additional
isolation cells [27] built.
1946 Parramatta Training School for Girls proclaimed 16 August
and Ormond Training School proclaimed 28 October
1946
1961 Feb/March series
of riots which led to the establishment of Hay Girls Institution. First girls arrive at Hay in September
1962 On 5 October 1962 Ormond Training School was extened to include additional
accomodation as "Ormond School"
1966 Minda Remand centre
opens. Bethel (admissions) and nearby dormitories classifified as priviledged areas
1973 Series of protests
organised by Bessie Guthrie called for the closure of welfare institutions. 3 August 1973 Reiby (Campbelltown) Juvenile
centre opens.
1974 30th June PGH closes.
1975 7th March Parramatta facility renamed Kamballa & Taldree
1980 Taldree facility closed.
Dept of Correctives Services occupies part of site as a periodic detention centre for women
1983 Kamballa closes. DoCs State
Disaster Recovery Unit occupies site
2003 Parramatta Girls
reunion
2004 Senate Enquiry Forgotten
Australians
2007 Hay Girls reunion. Parramatta
Girls play written by Alana Valentine is staged at the Belvoir St Theatre.
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Roman Catholic Orphan School Roman Catholic Orphan School (RCOS) a convict built, Georgian architectural style building of the
barrack type was designed by Henry Ginn and completed in 1841.
The central main building is a 3 storey stone building
with basement, measuring 56 x 22 ft [1] with a brick addition adjoined to
the rear [3] and a gatekeepers house [2]
situated at the front entrance.
By 1850 a kitchen block [9]
dining room (with staff quarters above) [7] and Chapel [6]
had been added to the site and linked to the main buildings with a covered way [8].
Within a decade an additional dormitory wing [20] was added to the main building
with a second wing [21] and laundry [22]
to the rear of the site completed by 1880. In 1867 Bethel (hospital) [18]
completed.
Later additions were designed by William Munro. Buildings
[5] were of convict origin possibly predating the orphanage buildings.
Described as a rather austere Georgian style structure built from locally quarried ashlar sandstone
with a well proportioned facade divided into a three part Palladian composition by a string course moulding at first floor
level. Ground floor windows have arched heads and splayed reveals with the main architectural feature, a classically inspired
entrance portico which has been closed in and the addition of verandahs at the two upper levels. Very little of the original
facade can still be seen.
** images reproduced with kind permission from NSW Society of Geneologists (SAG) |
Industrial School and Reformatory
The first Industrial Schools were established in 1867 with Boys sent to the Nautical Training ships, the Vernon
and later the Sobraon docked at Cockatoo Island with girls sent to the Newcastle Reformatory (1867-1871). In 1871 Newcastle
closed and the institution was re-established on Cockatoo Island (Biloela). By 1880 the reformatory section was relocated
to the Shaftesbury reformatory (1804-1904) at Vaucluse, with the industrial school section relocated to Parramatta in 1887.
Parramatta Industrial School for Females 1887
In 1873 the Royal Commission on Public Charities recommended that only one class of school be maintained by the Government for orphans and destitute children. This saw the classification of children; those considered destitute, abandoned or orphaned children who were deemed as ‘not corrupt’ and those who were deemed as having or tended towards ‘criminal behaviour’. The Industrial and Training Schools held both classifications of children. In 1886 the NSW Government ordered the Roman Catholic Orphan School to vacate the premises and on the 9th May 1887 the site was re-assigned as an Industrial School for Females with the transfer of girls from Biloela. Girls Training
Home – School (GTS) 1912 -1925 By 1910 there was a growing awareness that not all girls sentenced to the Parramatta Industrial School were ‘corrupt’. This saw the establishment of a Training Home in January 1912 on an adjacent acre of land previously enclosed with a high brick wall [23] effectively dividing the Industrial School site into two sections. A two storey building [18] then in use as the Matrons quarters was converted to provide accommodation for 50 girls and an old cell block [5] was also converted for use as a dining room.
Parramatta
Girls Home (PGH) 1925 -1974 In 1923 the NSW Child Welfare Act resulted in the merging of the Training and Industrial Schools and the institution was renamed Parramatta Girls Home in 1925 and between 1927-34 a new hospital block, clinic, dormitories, recreation/cookery/dining room [24 & 25] were added to the site.
Hay Girls Institution 1961 -1974
On the 28th July 1961 a derelict colonial gaol at Hay was gazetted as a maximum security annex of PGH and was named the Hay Girls Institution.
Minda 1966
From 1966 admissions/remand [24] (formerly Training Home) became a privileged section with the opening of a new remand facility Lidcombe (Minda). In 1969 a new classroom block had been built [29] and the old sewing /school rooms [5] demolished.
Kamballa & Taldree
In October 1974 Parramatta Girls Home was renamed Kamballa (girls) and Taldree (boys) and continued to operate under the management of the Child Welfare Department (YACS). Taldree was closed in 1980 with Kamballa continuing to operate until 1986. Around 1986 the Isolation Cells [27] were demolished.
Norma Parker Detention Centre In 1980 the Department of Corrective Services took over part of the site and established the Norma Parker Periodic Detention Centre. |
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