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…
This is a photograph of nurses standing in one of the patient dormitories at Mont Park. It shows two rows of approximately 8 beds with white embroidered sheets placed along the sides of a long room. Six nurses wearing white aprons and bonnets are standing among the beds. Down the middle of the room are…
This is a photograph of the Chronic Ward Blocks at Mont Park Hospital. The Chronic Block was the main block of patient wards at Mont Park. The photograph shows a curved driveway leading up to the central building of the block, identifiable by its ornate entrance, which housed the reception ward, operating theatre and dispensary,…
This is a copy of a press clipping from around 1986, showing a photograph of Yirra Hostel, around the time it was established by Jesus People.
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