Hospital Ward at Queen Victoria Sanitorium, a bare room stripped to its bones.

Series · 14 prints

Queen Victoria Sanitorium

Photographed 2015
Frames 14
Camera NIKON D7000
Location New South Wales, Australia
Status Abandoned; in ruins; asbestos contamination
Years 1903 to 1999
Architect George Sydney Jones
Specs 372 hectares · Twelve open-air chalets · Edwardian pavilion-plan sanatorium
01 ABOUT THIS SERIES

Series story

Map · Mapbox · OpenStreetMap

Queen Victoria Sanitorium opened on 18 February 1903 at Wentworth Falls in the Blue Mountains as a tuberculosis sanatorium for men. The original house was built for Sydney businessman Kelso King, who sold the property to the Queen Victoria Diamond Jubilee Homes for Consumptives Fund after the death of his wife Irene in 1900. The full complex was designed and built between 1902 and 1921. The sanatorium ran for 55 years before becoming a hospital for the aged and chronically ill in 1958 and finally a nursing home, which closed in May 1999. The site is on the local heritage register (item Wf025) but is not on the NSW State Heritage Register. Most of the complex is now in ruin.

03 PRINTS

Prints in this series

Kitchen at Queen Victoria Sanitorium, white ceramic tiles line the walls of the kitchen corridor, their grout darkened.
Kitchen
Hospital Ward at Queen Victoria Sanitorium, a bare room stripped to its bones.
Hospital Ward
Laundry at Queen Victoria Sanitorium, a room used for washing and drying laundry.
Laundry
Hallway at Queen Victoria Sanitorium, the corridor which ran through the centre of the main building complex.
Hallway
Nurse Call Button at Queen Victoria Sanitorium, bedside button used to get the attention of nursing staff by patients.
Nurse Call Button
Patio at Queen Victoria Sanitorium, an indoor/outdoor patio area coming from the wards into the garden.
Patio
Cleaners Room at Queen Victoria Sanitorium, some hanging racks high on the walls, perhaps for storing brooms/mops, etc.
Cleaners Room
Patients Bathroom at Queen Victoria Sanitorium, partly vandalised bathroom with oil heaters fixed to the walls.
Patients Bathroom
Garden Verandah at Queen Victoria Sanitorium, this verandah overlooked the beautiful garden that still thrives.
Garden Verandah
Entertainment Room at Queen Victoria Sanitorium, the front door leading into the common area of the dormitory.
Entertainment Room
Dining Area at Queen Victoria Sanitorium, possibly the dining area of the hospital.
Dining Area
Garden at Queen Victoria Sanitorium, mature pine trees in the background surround this site.
Garden
Cottage at Queen Victoria Sanitorium, a kitchen sink in the Federation period cottage that still exists on the site.
Cottage
Bench Seat at Queen Victoria Sanitorium, a cast iron and timber park bench sits in uncut grass, its slats thick with lichen.
Bench Seat
04 ABOUT THE PRINTS

How they’re made

Paper

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