Bexley Boys’ Home
Location
Bexley North
NSW Australia
Provider
Date Opened
Date Closed
Location
120 Kingsland Road
Bexley North NSW
Australia
Provider: Salvation Army
Year Opened: 1915
Year Closed: 1979
Bexley Boys’ Home was a Salvation Army home. It started as a Probationary Home for Boys in 1915, taking boys referred from the courts. It then became a boys’ home in 1931.
Related News articles:
21 Boys Walk Out of Home, Daily Advertiser, 24 Oct 1949
Salvation Army officer dismissed amid more abuse evidence, Annette Blackwell, 30 Jan 2014
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Bill’s story is powerful, sad, joyful and motivating all in one. Bill was a child in foster are. At a young age, he was separated from his twin sisters and placed in foster care and other institutions. Bill suffered abuse and trauma that no child should ever endure, and only at the age of 57, was he able to tell his story.