Debbie Manson Painting Collection Former patient Debbie Manson, who suffered immensely at the hands of staff as a young lady, uses painting as therapy, releasing the captured grief with emotion Titled: Bailley Henderson Hospital Click to view Titled: Tribute to Paul former child patient of WPH Click to view Titled: Ballie Henderson Hospital Toowoomba Click to view Titled: A Morgue Trolley Click to view Tribute: Jo a former nurse of WPH Click to view Titled: Dearly Missed. Tribute to former patient of WPH Click to view Titled: Ipswich Mental Hospital, Recreation Hall Click to view Titled: Pearce House WPH Click to view Titled: ///// Window in Osler House Click to view Titled : View from window in Bostock House WPH Click to view Titled: Room in Osler House WPH Click to view Titled: Tribute to Father Wally. Click to view Titled: A Nurse call button in Osler House. Click to view Titled: Ipswich Mental Hospital Operating Theatre Click to view Titled: Ipswich Mental Hospital Male Ward 2, Visitation Shelter. Click to view Titled: Woogaroo Asylum Click to view Titled: Long Days Click to view Titled: Tribute to Rhonda.T. Former patient of WPH Click to view Titled : Keep the memories alive. Tribute to former patient WPH Click to view Titled: A L/H (Osler House WPH) Click to view Titled: Patients working the vegetable garden 1960s WPH Click to view Titled: Beautiful Butterfly, Tribute to former patient WPH Click to view Titled: Long days and sleepless nights. Old Women's 1 & 2 WPH Click to view Titled: A tribute to a patient at Dunwich Asylum Click to view Tilted: John Oxley Memorial Hospital WPH Click to view

Boyce Family Collection Random selection of photos converted from slides taken by former Medical Superintendent Dr Clive Boyce. Click to view Click to view Click to view Click to view Click to view Click to view Click to view Click to view Click to view

The research shared on this page is from former patient Debbie Manson Asylum Deaths from 1860 to 1945 Records taken from Patient Case Notes at State Archives Qld. The hospital opened on 12th January 1865. The patient’s death records, which have no location of burial, are listed as being buried at one of the three hospital cemeteries out of respect. The following patient names are recorded from Patient Case Notes at the State Archives. To date, 14/01/2025, that is, case books A, B, and E. Coroner's Reports (Reports and No Reports), State Archives, all 25,910 pages. Also sourced from MyHeritage.com, Trove Newspaper Articles and The 934 Theiss. Due to there being NO OFFICIAL record of the headstone with the patient's name, I have listed their deaths in order of recorded deaths. Updated on 24/06/2025 Updated on 24/06/2025 State Archives Admissions Register Wolston Park Hospital Case Book "A" Admissions 05/11/1860 till 19/09/1922 Click to view Click to view Click to view Click to view Click to view Click to view Click to view Click to view Click to view Click to view Click to view Click to view Click to view Click to view Click to view Click to view Click to view Click to view Click to view Click to view Click to view Click to view Click to view Click to view Click to view State Archives Admissions Register Wolston Park Hospital Case Book "B" Case Books Male and Female Admissions 13 November 1860 till 19th September 1922 Click to view Click to view Click to view Click to view Click to view Click to view Click to view Click to view Click to view Click to view Click to view Click to view Click to view Click to view Click to view Click to view Click to view Click to view Click to view Click to view Click to view Click to view Click to view Click to view Click to view State Archives Admissions Register Wolston Park Hospital Case Book "C" Recorded directly from the Case Book at the State Archives on 10/09/2024. Click to view Click to view Click to view Click to view Click to view Click to view Click to view Click to view Click to view Click to view Click to view Click to view Click to view Click to view Click to view Click to view Click to view Click to view Click to view

Spirits of the Past The site is widely regarded as one of Australia's most chilling and haunted locations, with numerous reports of paranormal activity linked to its long and dark history of patient abuse and mistreatment. Opened in 1865, the site includes a few abandoned, decaying buildings alongside some restored ones. Alleged Spiritual Activity Urban explorers, paranormal investigators and curious visitors, as well as the site administrators of this page who have visited abandoned sections of the hospital complex, have reported eerie experiences, often attributed to the lingering spirits of former patients and staff. Reports include: Hearing disembodied voices and footsteps in parts of the facility where the floorboards no longer exist. Feeling as if someone grabbed their shoulders or experienced unexplained physical contact. A general feeling of dread and a sense that something "quite evil" lurks within the walls. The history of the hospital provides a sombre context for these beliefs, including: Widespread abuse: Allegations of sexual assault, beatings, chemical restraint, and neglect from the 1950s to the 1980s have been widely reported. Unmarked graves: Hundreds, potentially thousands, of patients who died at the asylum were buried in unmarked graves in 3 cemeteries located across the complex, with many remains later moved to Goodna, adding to the sense of restless spirits. Wrongful confinement: Many patients, including children who were wards of the state, were wrongfully placed in adult mental health facilities despite not having committed a crime or necessarily having a mental illness, and enduring significant trauma. Some experiences are documented by witness accounts Reports from some current staff indicate that Dawson House is haunted by various noises, including the internal lift moving and operating independently. The remains of unknown blood are located in the Morgue fridges. The spirit dressed in white has been seen wandering the former female division's surroundings. A male spirit seen sitting in the recreation hall appears to be facing the stage and waiting for something to start on stage. The "red-eyed " spirit stares in the dark in the hallway of the former male division building. A spirit by the name of "Eliza " who appears to be living within Old Women's 1 & 2, who is very interactive but only towards females, but does make herself known to males by making sounds within the building. A friendly young female who giggles and skips on the rear ground-floor verandah of Old Women's 1 & 2, who is interactive for a short time, notes how she died, and even says goodbye. A male spirit located within Old Women's 1 & 2, the western lower section, who whispers in your ear, "Help me, I'm trapped" . Another unknown spirit is located within Old Women's 1 & 2 and whispers in your ear, "Help Her" . A group of unknown spirits has been observed walking together on Ellerton Drive near Boyce Road. Please Note: As researchers documenting the history of this complex, we want to make it clear that we are NOT paranormal investigators, nor are we experienced in this field, despite claims made by the paranormal community who want access to this site for their own benefit. For the public, we discourage attempts to access the site or interact with certain spirits, as they possess serious negative energies. If you decide to do it, it's at your own risk

Goodna Township As early as 1841, a sheep run called "Woogaroo Station" was owned by the Grenier family of South Brisbane. This name referred to a waterhole in the creek and was superseded from 1856 onwards by Goodna, an Indigenous word meaning "dung. An unfortunate linguistic misunderstanding appears to have caused this name. Before time The broad river snaked its way through the bush as always since the Dreamtime, nourishing the people and animals who came to its banks. The rhythm of life and the movement of people accompanied the unfolding pattern of the seasons. Women and children spent their days gathering plants and small creatures while the men hunted larger animals, birds and fish. The dreaming stories were celebrated in dance, song, art, and word in the camp along the creek, where neighbouring clans gathered, and the Yaggera people met the Turrbal in corroboree. They fashioned tools and blades from stone and traded them. Men from many clans gathered at the Bora Ring to teach boys how to become warriors, and elders guided them through the secret steps to manhood. Ceremonies marked the passage from child to adult, and the ancestors' initiation mysteries were shared. Europeans' arrival In December 1823, the incursion began. Two rowboats came up the river, crewed by alien men from another continent. John Oxley and Allan Cunningham, with an officer and their boat crews, began their exploration. On 3 December 1823, Oxley landed at Prior’s Pocket on the northern bank of the river and, leaving his men to rest, he crossed the river, climbing a low hill and then walking to Dingo Hill from where he could see much of the surrounding landscape. Others followed, and in 1827, a small party of convicts and their guards passed by on their way to a spot upstream, beyond where two rivers joined together, where a deposit of white limestone had been recognised. Here, at the future site of Ipswich, they could hew and burn limestone to make cement. When the ghostly strangers arrived, they were terrifying in their violation of the land and its creatures, and of each other. They brought with them their alien animals, and in their cruelty and savagery, they broke all the laws that had existed since time immemorial, bending the country to their will and somehow escaping the fate of those who transgress against the spirit of the land. Against their violence and their diseases, the original people had little defence. The convicts left in 1839, and free settlement was allowed. The Aboriginal people were driven to the margins as the white men took over the land, careless of their gathering places and sacred sites, and excluding them from their hunting grounds. The men of Woogaroo Station and their horses drove their sheep across the land, crushing underfoot a way of life that had existed for thousands of years. Woogaroo The river became a highway for the steamboats of the white man, and the dusty track beside it became a pathway for bullock drays and carts. At this spot, a village known as Woogaroo grew up on the river flats as a landing developed and innkeepers set up hostelries for thirsty workers and travellers by land and by water. A store was established in 1857. By 1859, a thousand bales of Darling Downs wool made their way down the river to Brisbane each month. Settlers attempted to cultivate sugar and cotton with early success. Bullock teams heaved prized logs of hoop pine and red cedar to the wharf for use in Brisbane. Coal was discovered, and primitive mines were developed as men imagined the fortunes they could make selling the valuable fuel for use in steamships, foundries and workshops. Situated between the two most important towns in the Moreton Bay district, the growing settlement welcomed the establishment of the new Colony of Queensland in 1859, the same year that O’Possum Creek cattle station was established, and a cemetery was opened. As a self-respecting part of the British Empire, Queensland needed all the latest facilities. This included an ‘asylum’ where the unfortunates of society could be housed away from the public eye. In those days, such a place was not only for the mentally ill but also for many of those with disabilities. The Woogaroo Lunatic Asylum received its first inmates in 1865 when seven warders (two of them female) and ten police constables escorted 57 male and two female lunatics from Brisbane Gaol to the new Asylum. The place has changed its name many times: the Goodna Asylum, the Goodna Hospital for the Insane, the Brisbane Mental Hospital, the Brisbane Special Hospital, Wolston Park Hospital, and now simply ‘The Park’. As the number of inmates increased, so did the number of warders living nearby. So too did the number of farmers, as the government divided the land into farms, and the number of mouths to feed steadily grew. Establishing the new Colony required building a Government House and a Parliament building. The sandstone for these buildings came from a quarry established at Woogaroo near what Stuart Street is now. Workers quarried, dressed, and carted the stone to the river for barge transport to Brisbane. Construction of the Government House at Gardens Point in Brisbane began in 1860, and of the nearby Parliament House in 1865. Another requirement of the new Colony was a railway. River transport sufficed from Brisbane to Ipswich, but beyond that, a line to the rich Darling Downs, with its grazing properties, was needed. All the rails, workshop equipment, locomotives, carriages and wagons needed for the pioneer line came up the river on barges hauled by steamboat to North Ipswich, from where the line commenced in 1865 Woogaroo becomes Goodna In 1865, the settlement’s name was changed from Woogaroo to Goodna. By then, it had a post office and a Congregational church. The Royal Mail Hotel had opened by 1866. The wealthy entrepreneur Robert Towns opened a coal mine, with production beginning in 1867, thereby creating additional jobs. The loaded coal wagons, about 7000 tons a year, were hauled by horses down to the river wharf on a narrow-gauge tramway using timber rails. A police station was established, and in 1870, a blacksmith set up shop. In 1870, a State School also opened. As Brisbane and Ipswich grew, farming shifted to maize (for animal feed) and root vegetables, with a strong local market for these products. By the early 1870s, transport and industry had expanded, providing passenger services between Goodna and Brisbane and Ipswich, with two steamboat services per day in each direction. Three-horse coach services each way, two of them run by Cobb and Co. The steamboat called at Oxley and Goodna, while the intermediate coach stops were at Rocklea, Oxley and Goodna. The Brisbane Road of that time corresponds to the Brisbane Terrace of today. When it was decided to extend the railway from Ipswich to Brisbane, the first sod turning took place at Goodna on 30 January 1873. Two thousand people travelled from Brisbane and Ipswich, most by river, to see the Governor, the Marquis of Normanby, perform the ceremony using a silver spade and wheelbarrow. The Ipswich Volunteer Artillery fired off two cannons as a salute. It took more than three years to complete the line, making Goodna an essential station for travellers between Brisbane and Toowoomba, Dalby, and Warwick. From Goodna, travel to Ipswich by train was only about half an hour and to Brisbane about an hour: the river steamers and coaches plied their trade no more. The railway line encouraged further development. For example, a sawmill had opened by 1884, allowing sawn timber to be taken as building supplies not only to Brisbane but as far west as Roma. Dairying, butchery, market gardening and even honey production grew as a result of the improved transport links. At the same time, a chemical factory was established close to the river, and a brickworks was opened. By 1888, Goodna's population was 500. The open country in the area served a variety of purposes. For example, in 1886, the Queensland Defence Force’s volunteer soldiers used the area for training their horses to haul artillery guns in preparation for any foreign attack upon the colony. A few years later, the Goodna area was a favourite gathering place for the Brisbane Hunt Club, which perpetuated the British traditions associated with fox hunting. The riders brought their horses from Brisbane by special train, and the pack of hounds came on foot from their kennels at Rocklea. Following lunch at a local hostelry or private residence, the ‘hunt’ would take place with the hounds following not a fox but a pre-laid scent trail across the country, and there was much jumping of fences and other obstacles on the part of the riders. The 1893 flood Flooding of the Brisbane River was a frequent problem at Goodna, and a rowboat was kept available to allow staff of the Mental Hospital to travel to and from work. The 1890 flood caused extensive damage, displacing many people from their homes and sheltering them in the Catholic church. In 1893, the most significant flood on record occurred. At Goodna, the water level rose to 22 metres (5 metres higher than in 1974 and 6 metres higher than in 2011), flooding the Catholic church. The flood destroyed many more of the buildings in the settlement north of the railway line. Even the Railway Station building was partially swept away. Although some buildings were rebuilt on the river flats along the old Brisbane Road, development turned to the higher ground above the railway line. There were seven hills in the area: Hospital Hill, Dingo Hill, Holmes Hill, Brickfield Hill, Meaney’s Hill, School Hill, and Bradley’s Hill. ‘School Hill’, ‘Brickfield Hill’ and ‘Holmes Hill’ were all common Goodna addresses in the 1930s Picture Ipswich Photo Gallery Trove Goodna Articles Plan of the Village of Goodna 1865 Click to view Goodna 1888 Click to view Woogaroo Scrub 1890 Click to view Moreton District, Queensland. 20 Chain Series. Parish of Goodna, County of Stanley 1863 - 1922 Click to view Town of Goodna, Parish of Goodna, County of Stanley. 8 chains to the inch. 1917 Click to view Brisbane Terrace Goodna in 1924 Click to view Ipswich Road - Goodna 1923 Click to view Men inspect repairs to road surface Brisbane Terrace Goodna, Ipswich, 1926. In the distance, you can see the Royal Mail & Railway Hotels Click to view In 1903 Goodna was described in the Australian handbook: Click to view "The Pines" residence was built and lived in by the Law family. The house was situated on Brisbane Terrace with the Blacksmith's shop next door and the Goodna School in the background. Click to view Looking from where today's Queen st roundabout Church St looking down towards the Goodna Jacaranda fields are today. The rail line still goes over, but newest addition is the motorway bridge Click to view Uknown resident, taken on Barram St Click to view Goodna State School 1923 Click to view Cotton Farm - Goodna 1913 Click to view Apiary in Goodna Backyard 1913 Click to view Truck Using Ipswich Road - Goodna Click to view Brisbane - Toowoomba Road at Goodna 1946 Click to view 1 May 1944 Click to view Goodna Racecourse 1919 Click to view 1921 photo Click to view 1925 photo Click to view Goodna Racecourse Click to view PURCHASE OF OLD RACECOURSE 1948 Click to view Goodna, QLD. 1942-06. Click to view Goodna, QLD. 1942-06. Click to view

Joshua Jeays A carpenter from Leicester rose to prominence as a successful developer, alderman, and mayor of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. He constructed buildings and supplied stone from his Woogaroo quarry. One of the initial structures, Female Wards 1 and 2, was built using local sandstone from his quarry, which also provided materials for Old Government House (1862) and Parliament House (1865). The Riverbank and Nyunda Park Area, nestled between the main hospital complex and the old Farm Complex, extends northeast around the reservoir towards the Basil Stafford Centre. This bushland area, west of Explorer’s Walk, showcases remnants of the former sandstone quarry operations and transport routes. The quarry has two primary sites (north and south) and several smaller ones, identifiable by vertical worked faces and horizontal benched areas, connected by a track that transports stone to a northern jetty on the river, about 600 meters away. Another track branches southeast towards the main hospital complex. In 1980, Nyunda Park became an outdoor recreational space, featuring bushland, Joshua Jeays’ old sandstone quarry, a dam, and pathways. The John Oxley Centre, a forensic psychiatric facility, was erected on the site's western edge beside the Brisbane River in 1990. Joshua Jeays passed away at 69 on March 11, 1881, and was interred at Toowong Cemetery. His legacy endures through the buildings he left behind. Interesting facts about Joshua Jeays: He fervently supported Queensland's separation from New South Wales. He served on the inaugural Brisbane Municipal Council. He was the fourth Mayor of Brisbane. Joshua Jeays Click to view Location of Quarry Click to view Foundations of Old Women's 1 & 2 Click to view Foundations of Old Women's 1 & 2 Click to view Bostock House foundation Click to view First known photo of Old Women's with second story added using Woogaroo Sandstone Click to view Bardon House was built in 1863 by well-known Brisbane builder and early mayor of Brisbane, Joshua Jeays. Jeays had developed a quarry at Woogaroo (now called Goodna), and this house was built from stone sourced there. Bardon House is a two-storey Victorian Gothic structure with a steeply pitched roof, gables and dormer windows. Bardon House is still part of St Joseph's School. Click to view Brisbane City Council Plaque Click to view Joshua & Sarah Jeays resting place at Toowong Click to view 1860s track today to the former quarry Click to view Sandstone Ridge Click to view 1860s track today to the former quarry Click to view 1860s track today to the former quarry Click to view 1860s track today to the former quarry Click to view 1860s track today to the former quarry Click to view 1860s track today to the former quarry Click to view

Wolston House When Dr Stephen Simpson was appointed Commissioner for Crown Lands for the Moreton Bay District in 1842, the area opened for free settlement after the closure of the penal colony. He was a cultured man, a Doctor of Medicine, a Justice of the Peace, a Police Magistrate and a founding Member of the Queensland Legislative Council following Separation from New South Wales. His first home in the colony was at Woogaroo (where the Wolston Park Golf Club is situated), which was to become the site of the Wolston Park Hospital. In 1851, when the opportunity to buy land in the area arose, he purchased 640 acres (2.6 km2) to the east of his first house on land overlooking the Brisbane River. Wolston House comprises the homestead and garden of the Wolston Estate, a large pastoral property initially established by Dr Stephen Simpson in 1852 and extended during the 1860s by Matthew Goggs. The new property, which included a stockyard, stables, outbuildings and a house and garden, was laid out by surveyor William Pettigrew in 1852. The garden was planned with care. Pettigrew recorded in his diary the planting of fruit trees there, and Simpson was known for his interest in plants and gardening. Simpson may have planted the fig trees at Wolston. The house Simpson lived in was much smaller than the Wolston homestead that now stands. He had arrived in Brisbane as a recent widower and lived in a way that would have made a significant or formal dwelling unnecessary. He constructed a two-room brick cottage over a sandstone basement. The house was shingled and had a detached kitchen. This cottage now forms the core of the house. Simpson may have added the existing sandstone kitchen that adjoins this section before he sold the house in 1860, or Goggs may have. After his wife and child died, Simpson designated his nephew, John Ommaney (for whom Mount Ommaney is named) as his heir. On 11 March 1856, the young man, aged 20, was riding from Wolston station and was thrown from his horse. The horse returned to Wolston, and a search was undertaken. Ommaney was found on the ground insensible and, despite medical attention, died. His body was taken by steamer to be buried in the Church of England cemetery at Paddington . This may have affected Simpson's commitment to remaining in the colony, and a few years later, he put the Wolston estate up for sale and returned to England. According to the auction notice that appeared in the Moreton Bay Courier of 3 January 1860, the estate was by then well established with 2,000 acres (8.1 km2) of fenced land, an extensive garden and orchards, 250 head of horses and 400 of cattle. Matthew Buscall Goggs purchased Wolston in October 1860. He continued to operate the estate as a cattle and horse-breeding station and expanded the holding to 100,000 acres (400 km2). Goggs, a farmer's son, emigrated to Australia in 1841 and took up land at Chinchilla with his first wife. He purchased Wolston after his second marriage to Anne Gedge, and they had ten children. Goggs built a sandstone extension to the house in the 1860s to accommodate his family, and in the 1870s added a cedar annexe containing children's bedrooms. Gogg died in 1882 and was buried in a mausoleum that he had built in the grounds of the estate. This was damaged in the 1893 floods, and the bodies of Goggs and two infants were reburied at Toowong Cemetery . Following Gogg's death, his eldest son, also named Matthew Buscall, ran the estate until around 1890, when he moved to Brisbane. A Mr Thomas Matthews is recorded in Post Office Directories as having lived at Wolston between 1890 and 1893 and may have leased the property from the Goggs family. Over the years, the family had bought and sold land, and by 1907, the Wolston property had been reduced to 650 acres (2.6 km2) around Wolston House. Wolston House, 1890 In 1907, the Grindle family purchased the property. They expanded it and ran a successful dairy, milking 120 cows a day and selling the milk to Brisbane. They covered the shingle roof with corrugated iron. They rationalised the spacing of the verandah posts, which had previously been irregular, reflecting the stages of the house's extension. In 1956, Robert Hurley purchased the estate. By this time, the property had become run-down, and the house was inhabited by three elderly Grindle brothers who were no longer able to manage it. At the time, this consisted of 117 acres (47 ha) of freehold land in poor condition. The Hurleys rebuilt the property, establishing an intensive dairy business. In 1960, the Queensland Department of Agriculture and Stock resumed the property to develop a tick research centre. They demolished the farm outbuildings and intended to demolish the homestead as well; however, an intensive campaign by the Queensland Women's Historical Association, the Royal Historical Society of Queensland, and the newly formed National Trust of Queensland saved it. In 1965, the house was transferred to the National Trust and became its first property. Sir Raphael Cilento , who became the Trust's second president from 1966 to 1971, and architect Karl Langer were prominent in acquiring the homestead and shaping its interpretation. This interpretation rested on the property's occupation by Dr Stephen Simpson, and it was therefore decided to demolish the timber section at the rear, which was clearly of a later date. When the Trust acquired the house, it was in poor condition. In addition to urgent repairs, the Trust carried out extensive reconstruction. Although it reflects early-1960s philosophies, this approach is unacceptable today. The current conservation philosophy, in line with the recommendations of the Burra Charter , favours minimal intervention and interpretation and embraces the house and its setting throughout its life. The Trust has owned Wolston House for more than 30 years. It remains open to the public as a museum, allowing study of the effects of changes in conservation philosophies and methods over this period. Description Wolston House is on a rural site between Brisbane and Ipswich overlooking the Brisbane River. The surrounding land is now occupied by Wacol Correctional Centre and the Department of Primary Industries, but retains its pastoral character. A mature garden surrounds the house, with large trees, a well, and a pump. The house is constructed of sandstone and brick, with a galvanised-iron roof, and comprises six rooms. Two cellars with attached lean-tos form a half-basement accessed from the rear. The house is one room deep with the rooms disposed along a verandah supported by timber posts. The rooms are accessed through French windows, with no formal entrance. These consist of a large double room divided by folding cedar doors, a bedroom, a dining room, and a kitchen set at a slightly lower level. Much of the joinery is original; however, much of the plaster wall finishes have been reconstructed, and the ceilings, which were thought to have been pressed metal and plaster, have been rebuilt in secondhand timber. To the rear of the house, brick basement walls remain from the 1860s children's wing, which was demolished in the 1970s. Wolston functions as a house museum, and a modern caretaker's residence is situated to one side of the house. A modern toilet block sits behind the house, and a timber railway building has been relocated to the rear of the site to serve as a store. The gate posts and part of the wall shown in 1930s photographs survive, as do elements of original paving. The collection, which was developed to furnish the house, does not pertain to it but includes items associated with individuals who lived or worked on the property. It contains several significant early pieces of furniture and objects. Heritage listing Wolston House was listed on the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992, having satisfied the following criteria. The place is important in demonstrating the evolution or pattern of Queensland's history. It is also associated with the formation of the National Trust of Queensland and with Sir Raphael Cilento and Karl Langer, who played significant roles in acquiring Wolston House as the Trust's foundation property. The place demonstrates rare, uncommon or endangered aspects of Queensland's cultural heritage. Wolston House is a rare surviving early homestead, primarily constructed in the 1860s, incorporating an 1852 cottage. The surviving materials and workmanship from these building stages illustrate techniques not commonly found in small rural buildings of this period. The place is important in demonstrating the principal characteristics of a particular class of cultural places. By its form and the absence of a formal entry, the building demonstrates aspects of the way of life of the district's first European settlers. The place is important because of its aesthetic significance The building's character and its relationship with the landscape have considerable aesthetic appeal and are well-received by the community. The place has a special association with the life or work of a particular person, group or organisation of importance in Queensland's history. The earliest part of the house is associated with Dr Stephen Simpson (1792-1869), a prominent figure in public life in early Brisbane. It is also associated with the formation of the National Trust of Queensland and with Sir Raphael Cilento and Karl Langer, who played significant roles in acquiring Wolston House as the Trust's foundation property. HISTORIC WOLSTON. By F.E. LORD. Click here to view Click here to view Click here to view Click here to view Click here to view Click here to view Click here to view Click here to view Click here to view Click here to view Click here to view Click here to view Click here to view Click here to view Click here to view Click here to view Click here to view Click here to view Click here to view Sir Raphael Cilento demonstrating laundry mangle to Governor Sir Alan Mansfield, Wolston House, Wacol. 1969 Click here to view

Magdalen Asylum Magdalen Asylum, in Wooloowin, was operated by the Order of the Sisters of Mercy. It opened in 1889 as a home for unmarried mothers, disabled girls and infants. It ceased operating as a home for very young children in 1959. From 1974, it no longer cared for children but provided continuing care for physically and intellectually disabled persons and single mothers. In 1978, its function changed to a centre for people with intellectual and physical disabilities, and it was renamed Mercy Centre. Mother Mary Vincent was instrumental in the establishment when she came to Queensland from Ireland in 1861. Archbishop Dr Dunne laid the foundation stone on Sunday, 22nd April 1888 . The Holy Cross Retreat opened on 13th October 1889, when Governor Sir Henry Norman opened it. The asylum was a haven for destitute women (usually 'fallen' or with children out of wedlock) and, in common with most similar institutions, employed the women in laundry work in the running of the institution. Holy Cross Retreat was licensed in 1895 under the Orphanages Act 1879, then under the State Children Act 1911. It was licensed again under the Children's Services Act 1965. In 1977, the dormitory building and kitchen wing were demolished, but the steam laundry was maintained as a sheltered workshop for intellectually handicapped women and men. Today, all that remains from those days is the laundry building and the church on site. Former Names Magdalen Asylum, Wooloowin Holy Cross Magdalen Asylum, Wooloowin Holy Cross Retreat and Infants Home 1895 map Click to view Click to view Click to view Click to view Click to view

Dunwich Asylum The Dunwich Benevolent Asylum was a Benevolent Asylum for the aged, infirm and destitute, operated by the Queensland Government in Australia. It was located at Dunwich on North Stradbroke Island in Moreton Bay and operated from 1865 to 1946. The Dunwich Benevolent Asylum was established under the Benevolent Asylum Wards Act of 1861 to provide accommodation and care for poor people unable to care for themselves because of illness or infirmity. It opened on 13 May 1865 with the transfer of initial patients from the Benevolent Ward of the Brisbane General Hospital . More than 21,000 people were admitted to the asylum during its operation, with approximately 1,000 to 1,600 at any one time. Those who died in the asylum were generally buried in the Dunwich Cemetery unless families made other arrangements. In the 80 years spanning 1867-1947, 8,426 former inmates of the Dunwich Benevolent Asylum were buried in the Dunwich Cemetery. It operated until 30 September 1946, after which the patients were transferred to the newly opened Eventide Home at Sandgate , a northern suburb of Brisbane . Most buildings were later destroyed. However, some buildings remain, including the heritage-listed St Mark's Anglican Church and Dunwich Public Hall . The 'Aboriginal Gang' that worked at the Dunwich Benevolent Asylum were the first Aboriginal people in Australia to receive equal wages. In 1944, after a 25-year campaign, Aboriginal workers secured equal wages, almost 20 years before anywhere else in Australia. The Asylum closed shortly after, with the Aboriginal Gang only getting equal wages for one and a half years. The asylum occupied most of the current Dunwich township. It had many buildings with wards for men, women, and Asiatics. It had a kitchen, bakery, laundry, and other service buildings, including a power station built in 1926. It had a public hall, recreational facilities and a visitor centre for social activities. A farm with associated outbuildings provided meat and dairy products. A 1913 map shows it occupying the coastal area from Dunwich Cemetery down to the present-day jetty and inland to approximately the present-day Mitchell Crescent and Barton Street. Swamps are shown beyond the boundaries. Click to view Click to view Click to view Click to view Click to view Click to view Click to view Click to view Click to view Click to view Click to view Click to view Click to view Click to view Click to view Click to view Concert in the Victoria Hall for, 1909 Click to view The last surviving inmate accommodation of the former Dunwich Benevolent Asylum, known as Ward 13, has been entered into the Queensland Heritage Register. Click to view

Ipswich Asylum The Ipswich Branch of the Woogaroo Lunatic Asylum was opened in 1878 to take patients from the overcrowded Woogaroo Lunatic Asylum at Wacol. The name changed to the Ipswich Hospital for the Insane in 1910. Sandy Gallop Asylum, as it was first known, was established in 1878 as a branch asylum of the Goodna Asylum. It occupied a 140-acre site on the southern outskirts of Ipswich. The main building was a single-storey timber-and-masonry structure with three dormitories and two day rooms. The asylum received mainly chronic cases from Goodna. By the 1880s, it was accommodating more than 100 patients. The constant growth in admissions of patients to asylums in Queensland prompted the creation of Sandy Gallop as a separate institution. From 1910, it was known as the Ipswich Hospital for the Insane. James Hogg, the Inspector of Hospitals for the Insane (1898–1908), and his replacement, Henry Byam Ellerton (1909–1937), undertook a major building program between 1908 and 1917. Buildings erected included two male wards, three female wards, a hospital, an administration building, a laundry, a recreation hall, a kitchen, a boiler house, and a medical superintendent's residence. By 1920, the asylum was accommodating almost 450 patients. Changes in legislation in 1938 and shifts in approaches to treating mental patients led to the institution's name being changed to the Ipswich Mental Hospital. The number of patients continued to grow throughout the 1940s and 1950s, and overcrowding and staff shortages became major problems. Another phase of building activity occurred in the late 1950s and early 1960s, but did little to alleviate overcrowding. By the 1960s, the institution accommodated more than 600 patients. After the reorganisation of mental health services in 1968, the institution became a training centre for people with intellectual disabilities. It was renamed the Challinor Centre and remodelled. In 1973, the original 1878 building was demolished and replaced by a substantially larger single-storey brick complex. Other new buildings included a canteen (1978), workshops (1979) and a staff development centre (1981). The hospital also provided recreational facilities for residents, and in 1978, a sporting oval was constructed on part of the former farm site. It was renamed the Ipswich Hospital for the Insane in 1910. These building works and improvements were intended to forge a new identity for Challinor and to distinguish it from its previous role as a lunatic asylum and mental hospital. This process also involved demolishing buildings from earlier eras where possible. By the late 1970s, almost all evidence of farming activities, including sheds and yards, had been removed . In 1973, Allison House (the former No. 1 female ward) was demolished, and a section of the nurses' quarters was demolished in 1981. The former medical superintendent's residence was demolished in 1984 following partial fire damage. Since the 1970s, a programme of normalisation and deinstitutionalisation has steadily reduced the number of people in the centre. Clients have been encouraged and assisted to move into community-based accommodation, and plans are underway to close the centre entirely. The Challinor Centre closed in 1998. The site then became the University of Queensland's Ipswich campus. In 2015, the campus was transferred to the University of Southern Queensland, although the University of Queensland will continue to run some courses on the site. Former names: Asylum For the Insane, Ipswich Asylum For the Insane, Sandy Gallop Asylum For the Insane, Sandy Galop Hospital For the Insane, Ipswich Insane Asylum, Sandy Gallop Insane Asylum, Sandy Galop Ipswich Branch Asylum Ipswich Hospital for the Insane Ipswich Mental Hospital Lunatic Asylum, Ipswich Sandy Gallop Asylum for the Insane Sandy Gallop Insane Asylum Sandy Galop Asylum for the Insane Sandy Galop Insane Asylum Click to view Click to view Click to view Click to view Click to view Click to view Click to view Click to view Click to view Click to view Click to view Click to view Click to view