The Villawood Migrant Hostel recipe books and dining equipment are historically significant as evidence of the daily ritual of communal dining at the Hostel from 1948 until the mid 1980s.

Discover the British ‘Union Jack’ Flag used at the Westbridge Migrant Hostel, Villawood, New South Wales between 1950 and1960.

The poster has historic value as evidence of post World War 2 mass migration and the attempt by the Australian government to build the nation’s population with European migrants.

The first major post-war wave of migration started with displaced persons. These people had fled their countries of birth due to war, dislocation…