Light Leaks Size:M A steel workbench on castors

A steel workbench on castors stands against the far wall beneath a corrugated iron ceiling

when the last permanent resident left

serving first as a tuberculosis facility for male patients and later as a hospital for the aged and chronically ill

from around 1994 until 2006

Tatami mats stacked in a derelict classroom at Family School Fureai

Light Leaks Size:M A steel workbench on castorsLate afternoon light finds its way into Female Ward 9 of the Kirkbride Complex, cutting clean shafts through the darkness and catching dust suspended in the still air. This ward was part of the ten ward pavilion layout designed by Colonial Architect James Barnet and Inspector General of the Insane Frederic Norton Manning, ground broken in 1880 and first occupied in 1884. Part of the Callan Park series.