Boys Training School, Hobart
Location
Degraves Steet, Cascades South Hobart
TAS Australia
Provider
Tasmanian Governement
Date Opened
1884
Date Closed
1926
Boys Training School (Hobart)
Hobart
TAS
Australia
Provider: Tasmanian Government
Year Opened: 1884
Year Closed: 1926
Other names:
The Boys’ Reformatory, 1869 – 1876
Ashley Home for Boys, 1926 – 1999
The Boys’ Training School opened in South Hobart in 1884. It was a government institution for young male offenders. In 1896, it moved to the New Town Charitable Institution, formerly the site of the Queen’s Orphan Asylum. In 1922, it moved again, this time to Deloraine where, in 1926, it became the Ashley Home for Boys.
Like the Boys’ Reformatory, which had closed in 1876, it was on the site of the former Female Factory at Cascades, this time in Yard Five.
The boys wore a uniform of a vest, moleskin trousers, and a cloth cap.
The boys worked in the garden, the carpentry shop, and in the kitchen as scullery and kitchen boys. They also raised pigs. During the first School’s first year, they ploughed part of the hill behind the former Female Factory for crops, planted fruit trees and looked after the new herd of five dairy cows.
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