Inside Cell socket one of several timber-framed false-front

one of several timber-framed false-front facades built to replicate 1880s American main-street architecture

one of a wave of inner-Melbourne manufacturers that didn't survive tariff reductions and cheap imports

from 1975 to 1983

The rear doors open onto overgrown grounds

Stairs Down at Bathurst

Inside Cell socket one of several timber-framed false-frontA cell from Female Ward 9 inside Callan Park, photographed in 2019 after the Sydney College of the Arts had vacated the Kirkbride Complex. Peeling paint and worn surfaces surround a small window that frames a sliver of outside world, a reminder of what the pavilion type layout was meant to provide: light, air, and the therapeutic promise of the grounds beyond. Part of the Callan Park series.