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    36918°S 146.69642°E / -36.36918; 146.69642 Beechworth Asylum, also known in later years as the Beechworth Hospital for the Insane and Mayday Hills Mental...
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    Beechworth is a well-preserved historical town located in the north-east of Victoria, Australia, famous for its major growth during the gold rush days...
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    Victorian-era lunatic asylums such as Yarra Bend Asylum, Beechworth Asylum, and Kew Lunatic Asylum in Victoria, and the Parkside Lunatic Asylum in South Australia...
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  • Australia. Originally known as Ararat Lunatic Asylum, Aradale and its two sister asylums at Kew and Beechworth were commissioned to accommodate the growing...
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  • Australian Government. Retrieved 16 April 2023. La Trobe University Beechworth Site details Accessed 5/9/08 PROV, Agency VA 2840 [2], Accessed 27 August...
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    purpose-built asylum in the Colony of Victoria, Kew was also larger and more expensive than its sister asylums at Ararat and Beechworth. The asylum's buildings...
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  • Carlton Asylum, Kew Asylum and Yarra Bend Asylum. He continued to draw at Yarra Bend, and became known as 'the mad artist'. He died at Beechworth Asylum in...
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  • found and taken into custody peacefully the next day. J Ward Kew Asylum Beechworth Asylum List of Australian psychiatric institutions "Forensicare". Victorian...
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    include Alexandra Park, Ararat., Aradale Asylum, Buchan Caves, Maroondah Reservoir Park, May Day Hills/Beechworth Asylum, Mont Park, Pioneer Women's Memorial...
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    and Beechworth asylums were established. However, the gold rush caused a population explosion in the colony, increasing the burden on the new asylums. This...
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  • Asylum, Beechworth Port Fairy Hospital and Benevolent Asylum Sandhurst (Bendigo) Female Benevolent Asylum Sandhurst (Bendigo) Male Benevolent Asylum Melbourne...
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    Billson's Brewery is a brewery established in 1865 in Beechworth, north-east Victoria, and is one of the oldest continuing beverage manufacturers in Australia...
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    Tom, Catherine and their children moved to Beechworth where Tom was appointed Head Warden of Beechworth Asylum. Another daughter Imelda Mary (1916) was...
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  • Maitland Gaol, Old Dubbo Gaol, Macquarie Arms Hotel, Picton, Beechworth Lunatic Asylum, The Bright Oriental Hotel as well as many more famous Australian...
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  • Australian Open, in 1905. Curtis was medical superintendent of the Beechworth Asylum before his death in Melbourne on 12 September 1933, aged 58. "Lawn...
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  • and Won Wron were the last to be closed. Beechworth Prison was closed in 2004 and replaced with the Beechworth Correctional Centre the following year....
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  • 13,000 people died here during 140 years of operation. Beechworth Lunatic Asylum in Beechworth, Victoria is reportedly haunted by several ghosts of departed...
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    from local businesses and the community. The Beechworth site was once home to the Beechworth Lunatic Asylum, founded in 1867 and later renamed "Mayday Hills...
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    north-eastern Victoria, usually among granite boulders. Four of these are in the Beechworth area, one in Burrowa-Pine Mountain National Park, one in Chiltern Regional...
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    previously been retained in the gaols. The recently opened country asylums at Ararat and Beechworth had eased the pressure on Collingwood to accommodate those...
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  • example remaining in Australia of Chinese graves in their original state. Beechworth Cemetery, which opened in 1857, is significant for the way in which it...
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    Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) in 1877. In October 1878, at Beechworth court, Barry presided over a case in which Mrs Ellen Kelly (King) and...
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  • community. Josephine Patricia Cornish – For service to the community of Beechworth. Alan James Coulter – For service to community sport. Lynette Ann Cregan...
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    government buildings across Victoria, including Willsmere (formerly Kew Lunatic Asylum (1864)), which has very similar architecture. The school was to be named...
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    the early 1850s they moved to the goldfields at Bathurst and then to Beechworth. Eventually they came to Benalla in Victoria where Peter bought some land...
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    Redruth Gaol Maitland Gaol Wentworth Gaol Old Melbourne Gaol HM Prison Beechworth HM Prison Fairlea HM Prison Geelong HM Prison Sale HM Prison Morwell River...
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    and 300 nurses". Adelaide AZ. 2023. Retrieved 17 February 2023. "BEECHWORTH INSANE ASYLUM". The Age. No. 16, 006. Victoria, Australia. 29 June 1906. p. 6...
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    South Wales or acted as relieving manager. In 1875 the manager of the Beechworth branch of the Bank of New South Wales was charged with fraud on the eve...
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    a job as a bookkeeper at Alfred Billson's Anglo-Australian Brewery at Beechworth, in north-east Victoria. In March 1897, Hartt resigned from his position...
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  • Inaugural vice-president, West Australia Institute of Architects (1896) Born Beechworth, Victoria 1860 Died Subiaco, Western Australia 29 May 1941 Cavanagh &...
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