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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Aradale Mental Hospital (redirect from Ararat lunatic asylum)
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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Collingwood Stockade (section Asylum)
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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