Gladesville Mental Hospital
Sitting on the appropriately named bedlam point sydney s first ever psychiatric hospital opened its doors in 1838 and racked up ghost story after ghost story until it eventually closed in 1997.
Gladesville mental hospital. Gladesville in 1892 was thwe only mental hospital where such facilities were available. Gladesville mental hospital where thousands of dead were thrown in unmarked graves july 30 2017 nikola petrovski before this asylum was planned patients that suffered from mental or emotional disorders were housed either in a lunatic asylum located on the northern banks of the parramatta river in gladesville a suburb of sydney or at the. The hospital officially closed in 1993 with the last in patient services ceased in 1997. Gladesville hospital originally known as tarban creek lunatic asylum was designed by the colonial architect mortimer lewis.
The gladesville hospital cemetery is the final resting place of more than 1 200 former patients and several staff. Additions were made to the laundry in 1892 item 35 and 1912 item 35a and the kitchen in 1900 item 29. Since 1997 all inpatient services at gladesville have been moved to the macquarie hospital in north ryde. Phase iii in may 1926 horace henry nowland was appointed medical superintendent of the hospital a position he retained until retirement in 1950.
Welcome to one door gladesville support hub one door s support hub is located in the old gladesville hospital a site with a long history of change innovation and progress in mental health care. Gladesville mental hospital tunnel under victoria road gladesville mental hospital tunnel under victoria road. The story of gladesville mental hospital is the story of mental health in australia. The last in patient services were closed in 1997.
The first patients arrived from liverpool asylum and the female factory at parramatta in 1838. The former mental hospital now abandoned is derelict covered in graffiti and regarded as one of the most haunted places in new south wales. Our head office is the hub of our corporate services workforce support and advocacy work. The hospital officially closed in 1993 with the last in patient services ceased in 1997.
On tuesday 10 december 2019 the nsw mental health commission held a memorial to acknowledge and remember the lives of former residents of the gladesville psychiatric hospital on victoria road in gladesville nsw. The gladesville mental hospital formerly known as the tarban creek lunatic asylum was a psychiatric hospital established in 1838 in the suburb of gladesville sydney new south wales in australia.