

There Was Once an Asylum

This site not only provides an overview of mental health history and its implications for Goodna, but also explores the complex relationship between memory and history.
There are stories we may never know, but this site uncovers the history, revealing the layers of understanding that underpin the present.
It is done in a way that honours the patients, clients, and the people.


The Change Room & Stores Shed
Built-in c1951
The change room & stores shed is a small, timber-framed and -clad rectangular freestanding one-storey building to the west of the cafeteria. situated between the tennis court and the bowling green. This building was used to store equipment for the maintenance of the tennis court and bowling green. Built to accommodate a change room for patients and two storerooms to service the surrounding vegetable fields, it is highly intact and, in 2020, is used as a storeroom. Its original boarded doors have been removed/replaced, and its original roof cladding has been changed from corrugated asbestos sheets to corrugated metal sheets.



