Light Leaks Size:M its heavy frame and mechanisms

its heavy frame and mechanisms intact after the works closed in August 1988

left to the slow work of weather and time

from around 1994 until 2006

when the last permanent resident left

purpose-built in 1957 to serve the Balmain Tigers community

Light Leaks Size:M its heavy frame and mechanismsLate afternoon light finds its way into Female Ward 9 of the Kirkbride Complex, cutting clean shafts through the darkness and catching dust suspended in the still air. This ward was part of the ten ward pavilion layout designed by Colonial Architect James Barnet and Inspector General of the Insane Frederic Norton Manning, ground broken in 1880 and first occupied in 1884. Part of the Callan Park series.