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Convict Barracks, Sydney, Australia, c.1819 Hyde Park Barracks, Sydney, 1840s Hyde Park Barracks in a 1914 drawing by William Hardy Wilson. The Hyde Park Barracks, Sydney is a heritage-listed former barracks, hospital, convict accommodation, mint and courthouse and now museum and café located at Macquarie Street in the Sydney central business district, in the City of Sydney local government ...
Ararat Asylum (Aradale Mental Hospital) Closed: 1865: 1993: 2000: Ararat: Collingwood Stockade (Carlton Lunatic Asylum) Demolished: 1866: 1872? Carlton North, Melbourne: Beechworth Asylum (Mayday Hills) Closed: 1867: 1995: 1200 [9] Beechworth: Kew Asylum (Willsmere Mental Hospital) Closed: 1871 [10] 1988: 884 (in 1903) [11] Kew, Melbourne ...
Benevolent asylums, also known as destitute asylums or infirmaries for the destitute, were institutions established throughout the colonies of Australia in the 19th century to house destitute men; deserted, vagrant or homeless women and their children; and orphans not able to support themselves.
Immigration detention centres detain people who have overstayed their visa, breached their visa conditions and had their visa cancelled or have been refused entry at Australia's entry ports. [7] This includes irregular maritime arrivals claiming asylum without passports, identity papers or valid entry visas.
Villawood IDC. Villawood Immigration Detention Centre, originally Villawood Migrant Hostel or Villawood Migrant Centre, split into a separate section named Westbridge Migrant Hostel from 1968 to 1984, is an Australian immigration detention facility located in the suburb of Villawood in Sydney, Australia.
Law Courts Building.The open space on the right is the northern end of Queen's Square. Arranged around Queens Square, clockwise from the north, are the Law Courts Building, the Sydney Mint, [1] [2] the UNESCO World Heritage Listed Hyde Park Barracks, [3] [4] the Land Titles Office, [5] Hyde Park, [6] St James' Church, [7] and Sydney Law School.
The Callan Park Hospital for the Insane (1878–1914) is a heritage-listed former insane asylum, which was subsequently, for a time, used as a college campus, [5] located in the grounds of Callan Park, an area on the shores of Iron Cove in Lilyfield, a suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Hyde Park, Sydney, is an urban park, of 16.2-hectare (40-acre), located in the central business district of Sydney, in the City of Sydney local government area of New South Wales, Australia. It is the oldest public parkland in Australia.