This is a photograph of the Sunbury Asylum, also known as the Sunbury Mental Hospital. It shows a row of ornate multi-story brick buildings with steep pitched roofs. The buildings visible are (from left to right) the administration building and main entrance to the asylum, the female hospital building, and the male admission and special…
This is a photograph of the administration block at the Royal Park Psychiatric Hospital, also known as the Royal Park Mental Hospital. It shows are large, plain, rectangular brick building with a shallow porch jutting out over the central entrance. Older more decorative buildings can be seen on either side of the adminsitration block. Two…
This is an image of one of the buildings of the former Royal Park Psychiatric Hospital, also known as the Royal Park Mental Hospital. It shows a red brick Federation style building with red tiles, front verandahs, and yellow details. The front entrance is in the centre of the building and has an ornate face…
This is a photograph of Beechworth Mental Hospital (then known as Beechworth Asylum) taken around the time of it’s opening in 1867. It shows a very large two to three storey building, with large wings built on either side of a central entrance. The building is surrounded by large gardens and lawns. Several people can…
This is a photograph of the main hospital block, also known as ward blocks A and B, at Larundel. It shows a large red brick two-storey building in mock tudor style. The building is covered in graffiti, and all of the windows have been boarded up. It is surrounded by security fencing.
This is a photograph of ward and hospital blocks at Larundel. It shows several large two-storey brick buildings in mock-tudor style, with grasslands in the foreground. This photo was taken several years before Larundel opened as a hospital.
This is a photograph of the main hospital block at Larundel. It shows a large two-storey brick building in mock-tudor style. This photo was taken several years before Larundel opened as a hospital.
This is a photograph of a patient peeling stamps off of envelopes in the Mont Park Occupational Therapy Unit. It shows the patient with a small stack of envelopes and a shallow bowl of water with some stamps floating in it on a desk in front of them. Towards the back of the desk are…
This is a photograph of the Farm Workers Block at Mont Park Hospital. It shows three stone buildings facing a large pond. The Farm Workers Block were the earliest wards constructed at Mont Park, and housed patients who were used as labor on the hospital’s vegetable gardens, orchard, and dairy, pig, and poultry farms. This…
This is a photograph showing nurses standing in what appears to be a dining room at Mont Park. It shows a room with long dining tables on one side, and smaller octagonal tables on the other side. Three nurses wearing white aprons and bonnets are standing at the back of the room. This photograph is…
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