Launched at our AGM, our newest publication – Broughton Hall – Brought to Life describes in text and beautiful colour photos the history of Broughton Hall. Once a private estate, used in the wartime by the Red Cross and then developed into a voluntary psychiatric clinic, today …
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Step down services at Callan Park
On 21 June 2018 our local MP, Jamie Parker held a public meeting regarding the draft Landscape Structure Plan at Callan Park. The Office of Environment & Heritage (OEH) made a presentation describing the rationale for the plan and providing some high level details. Specifically to create an …
Callan Park: Hospital for the Insane by Sarah Luke
Tales of Victorian-era madness have imbued twenty-first century minds with images of inconvenient husbands and wives, locked up in attics or diseased madhouses in the English countryside, without hope of real care or release. But what was the reality faced by the ‘insane’ in nineteenth-century New …
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Callan Park: Compassion and Conflict in The Asylum by Roslyn Burge
Using images - some never seen publicly before - and oral history interviews (including the Rozelle Hospital Oral History Collection) historian Roslyn Burge has created a fascinating insight into the former mental asylum, capturing the stories of patients, residents, staff , the community, the …
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5 things to Love About Callan Park
In the Garden Drum - great article by Stuart Read describing his recent visit to Callan Park. Enjoy - it is a great read! http://gardendrum.com/2016/06/09/5-things-love-callan-park-estate-sydney/ …
