The following memories and stories about the Maitland Hospital emerged from background research, and from being shared by artists, staff, volunteers, patients and community members.
After the storm.
Kevin Parsons shares a stunning photograph he took of The Maitland Hospital following a big storm in 2015.
How lovely is this doorway.
Some of the architectural features from different eras scattered across The Maitland Hospital site.
The biggest thing we’ll miss.
The memorable views and scenes from the hospital windows that look across the Mt Pleasant floodplain.
Germ proofing.
Infectious diseases and the Maitland Hospital’s 1891 and 1916 isolation wards.
Asylum to the sick and destitute.
The Maitland Benevolent Asylum, precursor to The Maitland Hospital.
A magnificent black pig.
Vegetable gardens and livestock as integral parts of the Maitland Hospital site.
A conspicuous object.
The 1840s Maitland Hospital building - the first building on the current hospital site.
Handsome and substantial.
The past and present of the 1905 building on The Maitland Hospital site.
Jigsaw of buildings.
The expansion of buildings and structures on the Maitland Hospital site throughout the twentieth and into the twenty-first centuries
Render the hospital beautiful.
The gardens and grounds of The Maitland Hospital, past and present.