Henderson Bros Nursery Rhymes Collection

Heritage Innovation - Finalist

Henderson Bros Nursery Rhymes Collection
Child & Family Services ballarat Inc.

Following a fifty-year loan to Ballarat Health Services, seven Henderson Brothers paintings (originally housed in the Ballarat Orphanage Toddlers Block) have been reunited with their earlier history.  The paintings date from the 1920s and are  significant to generations of former orphanage residents as well as children who saw them at the health centre.  They are considered a little known part of Ballarat's  orphanage history. CAFS is using both these paintings and digital storytelling to commemorate and celebrate  the history of past orphanage residents in their new innovative legacy centre, bringing this  important story to life.