This is a copy of an image of a badge from St John’s Homes for Boys. It was published on an old website about the Shrublands mansion site. The badge likely dates from the period before 1958 when St John’s started to accept girls as well as boys.
This is a poster created by the Victorian Department of Public Works to show buildings at Mental Hospitals around Victoria that had been designed and built by the department. It includes images of ward blocks, administration offices, and staff residences at Ballarat Mental Hospital, Sunbury Mental Hospital, Mont Park, Janefield, Larundel, and Brierly Hospital Warrnambool.
This is an image of the men’s wards at Ballarat Hospital for the Insane, also known as Ballarat Mental Hospital. It shows a large two-storey brick building with arched windows and doorways on the ground floor. The face of the building is covered in climbing vines. This building is the same building that housed the…
This is an image of some of the women’s wards at the Ballarat Hospital for the Insane, also known as the Ballarat Mental Hospital. It shows two buildings in Federation Queen Anne style, with decorated roofs and wide front verandahs. Two women dressed in white, possibly nurses, can be seen standing in front of one…
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.
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