Kirkbride Ward refrigeration blue-grey in the haze

blue-grey in the haze

A wire mesh cage encloses a section of the former O-I Glass factory at Spotswood

a green steel door carries graffiti tags against white-painted brick

Store at Kandos

A cast iron and timber bench sits in uncut grass at Queen Victoria Sanitorium

Kirkbride Ward refrigeration blue-grey in the hazeFemale Ward 9 and 10 inside the Kirkbride Complex at Callan Park, photographed in 2018 with paint peeling back from the walls in thick, curling sheets. The ward sits within a ten block pavilion arrangement designed by Colonial Architect James Barnet and Inspector General of the Insane Frederic Norton Manning, first opened to female patients on 19 December 1884. Part of the Callan Park series.