Basin Size:XL its empty windows and peeling

its empty windows and peeling paint marking the end of seasonal work that once brought gangs of men together each year

Double steel doors open onto a second room beyond

A concrete staircase inside the Former Standard Brickworks at Box Hill

and debris covers the floor where the office workforce of Automatic Totalisators Limited once operated

Basin Size:XL its empty windows and peelingA porcelain basin, worn and stained, sits within one of the female wards of the Kirkbride Complex. Built between 1880 and 1885, Callan Park's ward blocks were designed as a curative environment, where the architecture itself was considered part of the treatment. The basin is what remains. Part of the Callan Park series.