Re-use of a former residential mental institution: Callan Park was a former State run mental institution established in the 1870's in the inner western suburbs of Sydney

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Re-use of a former residential mental institution

Aug 11, 2019 02:20:51 #

arathorn357 Loc: Sydney, Australia

Callan Park was a former State run mental institution established in the 1870's in the inner western suburbs of Sydney - it's near a land projection into the harbour called Bedlam Point, named after the original Bedlam lunatic asylum in London.
Until the early 1990's it operated on the basis of institutionalised care, where patients where committed to that institution until they were no longer considered a danger to themselves or society.
With the world wide change to community based care in the 1990's, the site became redundant and is now used for a variety of community uses, including a college for the arts, a variety of sporting / wide recreation uses and the occasional music concert. The buildings are in a variable state of repair, but all are sort of interesting.

The parklands between the buildings were very much used as part of the therapy to treat patients.

All taken with a Fuji XT2 with a 50-230 kit lens, just to see if you could capture a lot with a single lens.

Typical wide parklands between buildings