Cell Doors timber ceiling Double steel doors open onto

Double steel doors open onto a second room beyond

supplying crushed dolerite as road base for northern Sydney

The building was constructed in 1967 as a purpose-built television set for Skippy the Bush Kangaroo

its corrugated iron roof deep with rust

the two-storey wattle and daub structure at Wisemans Creek carries carved balcony timbers and decorative finials beneath its deteriorating skin

Cell Doors timber ceiling Double steel doors open ontoHeavy steel cell doors line the corridor of Female Ward 9 and 10 at Callan Park, rust staining the metal, paint peeling back through layers of institutional colour. The ward sits within the Kirkbride Complex, built between 1880 and 1885 on the principles of moral therapy: light, air, and distributed pavilions as the treatment itself. Part of the Callan Park series.