Gosford Farm Boy’s Home
Gosford Farm Boy’s Home
Kariong
Gosford
NSW
Australia
Provider: Government-Run
Year Opened: 1911
Year Closed: 1923
Gosford Farm Home for Boys was a reformatory opened by the Department of Public Instruction. It was officially opened in 1913 but boys lived there from 1911, as they laboured to build it. The farm home occupied a 700-acre site on Mount Penang. It housed boys moved from the Brush Farm Reformatory and the training vessel the Sobraon.
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Bon Fire Concert at Boys’ Home, 31 May 1923 (Gosford Times)
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