Backlight hill Buckets and brooms stand where

Buckets and brooms stand where a cleaner left them

Concrete columns recede the length of the first floor

Part of the Peters' Ice Cream Factory series

The office once coordinated a steam-driven dairy plant that opened in 1939 with a capacity for 70 to 80 workers across three shifts

Backlight hill Buckets and brooms stand whereA window at the far end of Female Ward 9 casts a hard backlight through the room, throwing dust motes into suspension against the decaying walls. The ward is part of the Kirkbride Complex at Callan Park, the sandstone pavilion group built between 1880 and 1885 as Australia's first purpose built hospital for moral therapy. Part of the Callan Park series.