This is a photograph of the Mission House and School at Mornington Island Mission. It shows two buildings, raised on stilts, on a beach with vegetation visible in the background. This photograph was included in a file held by Queensland State Archives that discuses water supply at the mission, titled ‘Missions – Mornington Island –…
This is a photograph of children playing on monkey-bars outside of a single storey stone building, identified as the Children’s Seaside Hotel, Narrabeen. The description posted alongside this photograph on the Narrabeen Reunions and the Northern Beaches Facebook page describes this photo as dating to the 1950s, and that the location of the Hotel was…
This is a photograph of a building known as Camfield House, which housed the Annesfield Aboriginal School. It shows a single-storey cottage with a small double-storey annexe on one end sitting at the top of a hill.
Museums of History NSW (State Archives) holds a large collection of records relating to patients admitted to Parramatta Mental Hospital. Many of the records contain information about patients at Parramatta, and may include information about children and young people who were admitted to the hospital. The records include admission and discharge registers, case files, post-morten…
Please contact the Cumberland Hospital Health Information and Record Service: Phone: (02) 8890 4767 Email: WSLHD-ROI@health.nsw.gov.au Website: https://www.nsw.gov.au/departments-and-agencies/wslhd/about-us/right-to-information
Parramatta Mental Hospital officially opened in 1849 under the name Parramatta Lunatic Asylum, on the site of the former Parramatta Female Factory. It was was run by the office of the Colonial Secretary before the Office of the Inspector General of the Insane was established in 1876 and took over it’s management. It had several…
This is a photograph of the women’s dormitory block at Newcastle Hospital for the Insane, taken by Ralph Snowball in 1888. It shows a long two-storey building with wrap-around verandahs, with formal gardens and a water fountain sitting in front of it. Various buildings in the streets of Newcastle are visible behind the dormitory block.
Museums of History NSW (State Archives) holds a large collection of records relating to patients admitted to Newcastle Mental Hospital. Many of the records contain information about patients at Newcastle, and may include information about children and young people who were admitted to the hospital. The records include admission and discharge registers, case files, school…
Please contact the Medico-Legal Clerk of Hunter New England Health Service: Postal address: PO Box 833 Newcastle, 2300 Phone: (02) 4014 3793
Newcastle Mental Hospital was established in 1871 in buildings that had previously been the Newcastle Industrial School and Reformatory for Girls, and prior to that the government barracks. It was opened to ease overcrowding at asylums in Sydney, and intended to specifically accept patients with developmental disabilities (referred to at the time as “imbeciles” and…
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