Statement of Significance Criterion A: The place is important in demonstrating the evolution or pattern of Queensland’s history. Wolston Park Hospital Complex (established in 1865 as Woogaroo Asylum) is important in demonstrating the evolution of mental health care and welfare in Queensland. It is an early and distinctive example of a substantial public mental health institution. Wolston Park Hospital Complex demonstrates the primary role of the state in the care of people with mental illness since the 1860s. Founded by the Queensland government as the first publicly funded mental health institution in the colony, by the 1950s, it had become the largest institution providing care and treatment for people with mental illness in Queensland. The site is also important in demonstrating the development of specialist mental health services for returned service personnel and people with intellectual disabilities, including children. Wolston Park Hospital Complex retains a range of buildings dating from the 1860s, which through their design, relationships with each other and their setting, including designed landscapes, gardens and bushland, demonstrate the changing practices in the treatment of mental illness: from confinement and separation in the 19th century (Asylum); to activities and an environment conducive to mental health/recovery from 1909 to the 1930s (Moral Treatment or Therapy); to active treatment and cure through drug and medical therapies from the 1940s (Mental Hygiene 1940s-50s and Psychiatric Services 1960s-70s); to deinstitutionalization and community-based services by the 1980s. The site's physical evolution also demonstrates these changes in practice, as the complex developed incrementally across its large reserve. Grounds landscaping and patient gardening during the moral treatment era served as therapy, providing meaningful work, a pleasant environment, and recreational facilities. Farming was also used as a therapy during the moral treatment era and from the 1950s for those with intellectual disabilities. The institution’s philosophy of self-sufficiency is illustrated by the riverside quarry (1860s) and associated buildings, structures, and landscaping featuring sandstone; the Farm Wards, which provided food supplies; and the Female Wards 1 and 2, constructed using on-site bricks and timber felled nearby. Criterion B: The place demonstrates rare, uncommon, or endangered aspects of Queensland’s cultural heritage, as one of only three mental health institutions established in Queensland in the 19th century, and the only one that illustrates, through its fabric and layout, the evolution of mental health services from the 1860s onwards. Wolston Park Hospital Complex is rare and distinctive. Criterion B: The place demonstrates rare, uncommon or endangered aspects of Queensland’s cultural heritage. As one of only three mental health institutions established in Queensland in the 19th century, and the only one that illustrates through its fabric and layout the evolution of mental health services from the 1860s onwards, the complex is rare and distinctive. Criterion C: The place has the potential to yield information that will contribute to an understanding of Queensland’s history. The Wolston Park Hospital Complex has the potential to contribute knowledge that will lead to a greater understanding of early and evolved mental health treatment practices and conditions, the associated activities and infrastructure, the people who lived and worked there, and broader 19th and early-20th-century social attitudes towards mental health patients in Queensland. Detailed analysis of the hospital buildings – their planning, design and fabric, along with associated objects and documentary evidence – has the potential to contribute to a greater understanding of the historical functions, operational activities, and conditions experienced by patients subject to a controlled environment. Archaeological investigations at and around the three former cemetery sites may clarify the presence, nature and extent of burials, which, along with the identification and analysis of associated artefacts and features, have the potential to yield information about the treatment of deceased patients and burial practices at the hospital; spatial distribution and arrangement of graves; and the extent and methods of reinterments. Archaeological investigations of the early asylum area – its wards, hospital, doctors' residence and cottage sites, and associated jetty and bridge sites – have the potential to reveal sub-surface artefacts and features that might inform on the layout and operational activities, the living conditions of occupants, and transportation infrastructure associated with the complex. Previously the site of the 1840s Simpson residence, this area may also yield information about the site's mid-19th-century occupation. The medium- and high-density artefact scatters in the riverbank bushland area, including glass, ceramic, and metal kitchenware and tableware, could contribute to our understanding of the occupants, their material culture, and the day-to-day activities of hospital life. Criterion D: The place is important in demonstrating the principal characteristics of a particular class of cultural places. Highly intact, Wolston Park Hospital Complex is important in demonstrating the principal characteristics of a substantial public mental health institution in Queensland developed from the mid-19th to the mid-20th centuries. Principal characteristics include an expansive, isolated, and highly secure site; groups of hospital buildings arranged by function, with segregation of male and female patients; on-site services and infrastructure to support self-contained operation; patient cemeteries; and landscape features and functions designed for patient therapy. Wolston Park Hospital Complex is the earliest and most extensive example of its type in Queensland. The complex’s buildings, structures, and landscapes are important in demonstrating this type of place, including: Early road network Ellerton Drive (1870s, 1913-6); Boyce Road (by 1896); Hogg Lane (by 1896); Wolston Park Road, southern section (by 1896); Barrett Drive (by 1896-1948); Farm Roads (1899-1950s) Central Administration, Services, & Staff Residences Area Visitors Garden (c. 1912) and Visitors Pavilion (1920); Administration Building (1917); Hospital (1917); Chapel (1961); Medical Superintendent's Residence and Garden (1898); Assistant Medical Superintendent’s Residence and Garden (1912); Reservoir and Pump Houses (1914); Recreation Hall (1890-c. 1972); Laundry (1918); Powerhouse (1917); Morgue (1902-49). Female Patients Area Female Wards 1 & 2 (1866-1951); Shelter Shed for Female Patients (by 1944); Anderson House (1917); Staff Residence (1890s-1910s); Bostock House (1885-c1924); Dawson House (1944); Female Bathroom Block (1902) Female Patients Recreation Area & Early Asylum Site Recreation Grounds (1951-5); Cafeteria (c1951); Change Room and Stores Shed (c1951); Packing Shed and Patients Shelter (c1951); Early Asylum Site (1865), including Cemetery. Male Patients Area Recreation Grounds (by 1895); Fleming House (by 1896, c1917); Gladstone House, Jenner House, and Kelsey House (all 1936); Male Bathroom Block (1902); Lewis House, McDonnell House, and Noble House (all 1915); Osler House (1928); Pearce House (1934); Cemetery Site (1895-1912). Wacol Repatriation Complex Recreation Grounds (c. 1954- 55); Kitchen Block (1948); Wards A, B, and C (all 1948); Occupational Therapy and Recreation Hall (c. 1961); Cemetery Site (c. 1913- 45). Gailes Golf Club Course (1925) Farm Complex Piggery Remnants (1916-19); Dam (1950) and Pump House (by 1956); Later Farm Ward Building for Male Patients (c1964); Farm Overseer’s House (1918); Early Farm Ward Kitchen and Dairy (1916). Basil Stafford Centre Farm Ward Building and Grounds (1954-6); School Building for Child Patients with Intellectual Disabilities (1967) and Swimming Pool (c1973); Villas (c1978); and Hospital Dump Sites. Wolston Park Hospital Complex also demonstrates the principal characteristics of the Queensland Department of Public Works (DPW)'s architectural work, retaining an extensive range of excellent, highly intact examples of DPW-designed buildings constructed over more than 100 years (1875 to c1978). The principal characteristics of the DPW’s architectural work, as demonstrated at the hospital complex, include well-designed, fit-for-purpose buildings with a dignified civic character; the use of high-quality materials; and abundant natural light and interior ventilation. Criterion E: The place is important because of its aesthetic significance. Wolston Park Hospital Complex is significant for its aesthetic qualities, owing to the expressive and evocative qualities of its highly intact buildings and landscapes. The place expresses the Queensland Government’s regulation and treatment of people with mental illnesses from the 1860s to the 1970s, particularly its use of moral therapy. Through its elevated location and ordered buildings in formal landscapes surrounded by bushland, with controlled views to and from its features, the government sought to convey order, control, and calm to patients and visitors. The place is also evocative of institutional life and associated experiences of isolation, dependence, confinement, and treatment. These evocative qualities are layered across a variety of aspects, including substantial ward buildings designed for patient observation, control and management; communal patient dormitories, ablutions, dining, and recreation rooms, and individual patient cells; patient work and recreation landscapes; patient morgue and cemeteries; hospital paraphernalia and dump artefacts; and the patina of use on the fabric of the buildings. Important views unfold across the site, exemplified by the imposing early female and male ward buildings juxtaposed with their open, landscaped surrounds. Criterion F: The place is important in demonstrating a high degree of creative or technical achievement at a particular period. The place does not display any particular artistic, architectural, or creative qualities or any technical, construction or design qualities to be sufficiently important in demonstrating a high degree of creative or technical achievement at a particular period. The place does not satisfy this criterion. Criterion G: The place has a strong or special association with a particular community or cultural group for social, cultural or spiritual reasons. Operating for more than 155 years, Wolston Park Hospital Complex, the oldest and for many years, the largest mental health facility in Queensland, has a strong and special association with the Queensland mental health community, including past and present patients, their family members, friends, and advocates, medical and non-medical staff, social workers, clergy, and volunteers. Criterion H: The place has a special association with the life or work of a particular person, group or organisation of importance in Queensland’s history. Wolston Park Hospital Complex has a special association with Henry Byam Ellerton (c1871-1951), its Medical Superintendent and Inspector of the Insane of Queensland from 1909 to 1936, who made a notable contribution to the development of mental health services in the state. Ellerton improved patient care through staff training, occupational therapy, and improved facilities. In line with the moral treatment approach to patient care, Ellerton transformed Wolston Park Hospital Complex through major building, farming, recreation, and landscaping programmes, laying out the complex in the form it still retains.

Barrett Centre Opened in 1979, the Barrett Centre was named in honour of Dr R.H. Barrett, a former psychiatrist who was Deputy Medical Superintendent it was a 160-bed unit for acute admissions and shorter-stay patients, distinct from the longer-stay patients in other wards at Wolston Park Hospital. By 2000, the Barrett Centre had been decommissioned ahead of the broader Wolston Park Hospital closure, and many of its structures were later demolished (excluding the Barrett Adolescent Centre). Barrett Psychiatry Unit was established to provide acute care. It comprised eight separate buildings, a reception and admission block, three wards with 32 beds, two wards with 16 beds, a cafeteria and a medical officer's flat. The Barrett Adolescent Centre (BAC) was a public mental health facility that operated between 1983 and January 2014 on the campus of The Park – Centre for Mental Health at Wacol. It provided extended inpatient treatment for adolescents with severe and complex mental illnesses and treated patients aged between 13 and 18 years old. It had a capacity for 15 inpatients, five-day patients, and a small number of outpatients. There was also a waiting list for inpatient or day-patient admission. The clinical director of the BAC, a psychiatrist, led a multi-disciplinary team of medical, nursing and allied health staff. An on-site school, the Barrett Adolescent Centre Special School (BACSS), operated from 1985 and was managed by the Department of Education. On 6 August 2013, the then Minister for Health announced that the BAC would close. Two processes were set in place. The first was to identify appropriate alternative services for the then patients, and the second was to develop a new suite of services intended to cater for adolescents with extended treatment needs, including those who might otherwise have been admitted to the BAC. West Moreton Hospital and Health Service (WMHHS) undertook the first process. Children’s Health Queensland HHS (CHQ) led the second process. Barrett Adolescent Centre Commission of Inquiry Report Volume 1 JUNE 2016 Barrett Adolescent Centre Commission of Inquiry QLD Health Response Click to view Click to view Click to view Click to view Click to view Click to view Click to view Click to view

Wacol Repatriation Complex Towards the end of World War 1, the hospital began receiving a new type of patient - those with mental disorders specifically caused by involvement in the war. 'War veterans' became an increasingly significant minority among the inmate population as the war finished and soldiers returned home. With the Commonwealth Government establishing special hospital facilities for the treatment of physically injured, the question of establishing separate facilities for veterans with mental disorders was raised. HB Ellerton discussed the issue in his Annual Report of 1917 and commented that, while the idea had some merit, it was better to treat war veterans in an established institution such as Goodna. He argued that in a separate institution, inmates would not have access to 'experienced medical officers, specially trained and qualified matrons and nursing staff'. Ellerton also argued that veterans would have to be accommodated in hospitals of ordinary design. Such accommodation, he maintained, would be 'wanting other accommodation as found in all mental hospitals such as is provided in the yard gardens, and extensive grounds, out-door recreations, in-door amusements, and entertainments, and finally, occupations under those qualified to supervise their work.'s• With the onset of World War 2, the question of special facilities for the treatment of returned soldiers was again raised. By January 1942, 110 returned soldiers were inmates of the Goodna Mental Hospital. The Commonwealth Government expressed concern about the growing number of soldiers being admitted to Goodna and approached the Queensland Government about constructing purpose-built facilities. A review found that at least eighty beds were required for those whose condition was precipitated by war service."° The Commonwealth agreed to fund the construction of three special wards and the Queensland government was to be responsible for the maintenance ~£ the buildings and staffing. The Repatriation Commission was to pay for the treatment on a per capita basis." The Works Department prepared plans for a complete repatriation unit in consultation with Basil Stafford, the Director of Mental Hygiene. The unit was designed to be self-contained with three wards and kitchen/dining facilities. According to Stafford, the buildings were based on 'modern design' concepts, but were essentially the old principles of moral therapy resurrected and reinterpreted. The buildings were designed to eliminate the idea of confinement usually associated with mental hospitals, with freedom emphasised by wide verandahs and patients' dining areas opening directly onto grassed courtyards and lawns.62 Specially designed steel frame windows were included in the design to give protection to the patients without the need for iron bars or grating, to give the illusion of freedom." Construction on the buildings commenced in 1946, and the Wacol Repatriation Pavilion opened on 26 January 1948, when Governor John Lavarack opened it. The complex comprised three similar ward blocks with accommodation for 88 patients and a kitchen/canteen block. A recreation hall was completed in the 1950s. Patients constructed a cricket oval in 1954-55. Ward A Ward A is a single-storey brick building erected in 1948. It was to accommodate ex-servicemen requiring treatment for mental disorders. Ward A was one of two similar U-shaped blocks. It was constructed of cream brick with a roof of red asbestos cement tiles. The building comprised a main block containing a lounge, a recreation room, fifteen single bedrooms, a kitchen, ironing rooms, nurses' rooms, a lavatory, a bathroom, and an ancillary room. rooms. Two wings projected from the centre block. One contained offices, doctors' and examination rooms, store rooms and a spacious visitor's room; the other, nine bedrooms and a lavatory. A boiler room was constructed underneath the bathroom. The kitchenette and laundry were designed for patients' use to give them a feeling of independence by providing facilities for preparing light refreshments or doing small laundry and pressing. The verandah opened onto a grassy, terraced lawn. Renovations to the building in 1975 reduced the number of single rooms, as several were converted to provide toilets and showers to be shared by the adjacent rooms on each side. 1948: Two wards, a kitchen and a recreation block opened 1950: theatrette provided to the lounge room 1975: conversion of some rooms to bath/toilet facilities Ward B This building was erected in 1948 to specifically accommodate ex-servicemen suffering mental disorders. Previously returned ex-servicemen had been accommodated in the general section of the Goodna Mental Hospital. Ward B was similar to Ward A in construction. Ward C This building was erected in 1948 specifically to accommodate ex-servicemen suffering from mental disorders. Ward C differed from the other two wards with its H-shaped plan form. One wing contained two fifteen-bed wards. The centre section comprised ten single rooms, a nurses' room, bathrooms, lavatories, a kitchenette, and a laundry. An occupational therapy room was built in the basement in 1957, and that same year Ward C was converted to a closed ward for restless repatriation patients whose behaviour was unsuitable for the Wacol Pavilion. A verandah was added to Ward C in 1958/9 for occupational therapy, and the dining room was enclosed in 1965. To provide additional external shaded areas, a large open roof area was attached to the north-west elevation in 1990. 1958: occupational therapy area 1990: open covered area Kitchen/Canteen This building was erected as a cafeteria block for the Wacol repatriation pavilion in 1948. It contained a dining room, kitchen, scullery, cool rooms, preparation rooms, store room and lavatories. The cafeteria-style dining room could accommodate 96 diners. An open-fronted canteen teen, flanked by flower boxes, was built underneath the front portion of the building for the use of patients and friends and opened onto a terraced grassed lawn. Grounds The grounds of the Wacol Repatriation Pavilion comprise a mix of evenly sloped lawns with trees randomly planted between the buildings. Oleander clumps were formally spaced along both sides of the former entry. A cricket oval is situated to the southeast of the complex. It was built by patient labour in 1954-5 and features stone retaining walls, a white picket fence, and a timber sight screen. Wacol Repatriation Pavillion, Wacol, Queensland 1955-1975. Click to view Wacol Repatriation Pavillion, Wacol, Queensland 1955-1975. Click to view Wacol Repatriation Pavillion, Wacol, Queensland 1955-1975. Click to view Wacol Repatriation Pavillion, Wacol, Queensland 1955-1975. Click to view Wacol Repatriation Pavillion, Wacol, Queensland 1955-1975. Click to view Dining block being built at the Wacol Repatriation Pavillion, Wacol, Queensland 1955-1975. Click to view Dining block completed at the Wacol Repatriation Pavillion, Wacol, Queensland 1955-1975. Click to view 1961 Overhead Click to view 2026 Overhead Click to view Dining block abandoned at the Wacol Repatriation Pavillion, Wacol, Queensland early 2000s Click to view Wacol Repatriation Pavillion, Wacol, Queensland Click to view Wacol Repatriation Pavillion, Wacol, Queensland Click to view Wacol Repatriation Pavillion, Wacol, Queensland Click to view Wacol Repatriation Pavillion, Wacol, Queensland Click to view Wacol Repatriation Pavillion, Wacol, Queensland Click to view Wacol Repatriation Pavillion, Wacol, Queensland Click to view Wacol Repatriation Pavillion, Wacol, Queensland Click to view Wacol Repatriation Pavillion, Wacol, Queensland Click to view Wacol Repatriation Pavillion, Wacol, Queensland Click to view Wacol Repatriation Pavillion, Wacol, Queensland Click to view Wacol Repatriation Pavillion, Wacol, Queensland Click to view Recreation Ground Click to view The new road Click to view Click to view Layout Plan Click to view

Miscellaneous Files 1877 Royal Commission letter click to view Admission Register Wolston Park Hospital Case Book E (Male and Female Admissions) from 08-May-1875 – 09-May-1920. Ward Book 1922/23 Part 1 of 3 Ward Book 1922/23 Part 2 of 3 Ward Book 1922/23 Part 3 of 3 State Archives general notes from the year 1879 Royal Commission on the Management of the Woogaroo Lunatic Asylum and the Lunatic Reception Houses of the Colony - Report (Q Pp 1877 v1: 1073-1253) [1877] QldRoyalC 2 (15 May 1877) Research Guide to mental asylum records at Queensland State Archives Wolston Park Hospital, 1865–2001: A Retrospect Register of letters received 1878/79 Charitable institutions of the Queensland government to 1919 Commission of Appointment - Commissioner re Enquiry Lunatic Asylum, Woogaroo ‘Façade of success’ Woogaroo Lunatic Asylum 1865-1969 The early history of psychiatric nursing in Queensland Royal Commission of Inquiry into Woogaroo Lunatic Asylum and the Lunatic Reception Houses of QLD Casebook "A" of the Woogaroo Lunatic Asylum: patient demographics and diagnoses Queensland Parliamentary Debates [Hansard] Legislative Council TUESDAY, 17 AUG 1869 Woogaroo Asylum An Act to Consolidate and Amend the Law relating to the Insane. ASSENTED TO 2ND SEPTEMBER 1884 The road to recovery - a history of mental health services in Queensland 1859-2009 Going Up the Line to Goodna Wolston Park cricket Pavilion Conservation Plan Wolston Park Hospital University of Queensland Neuropsychiatric Unit Opening Day October 16 - 1972 1972 UQ Neuropsychiatric Guide Paper on the Park 1 Paper on the Park 2 Paper on the Park 3 Barrett Adolescent Centre Options Study 2015 1877 QUEENSLAND WOOGAROO COMMISSION REPORT

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

Wolston Park Golf Club The Wolston Park Golf Club was originally the Hospital Sports Club, which combined golf, cricket, bowls, and tennis. The Wolston Park Golf Club was formed in 1961 by Dr Clive Boyce, then Medical Superintendent, and the late W. K. Hynd, a Head Male Nurse. W. K. Hynd and the late Norm Campbell, Male Nurse, designed the first 9 holes; Bob Howard served as Treasurer. When first formed, the nine-hole golf course was used only by hospital staff and patients. The club was affiliated with the B.D.G.A. in 1970 and opened to non-hospital staff. The 120 members, made up of staff and patients, used the facilities of the Gailes Golf Clubhouse, although there was no other affiliation with that club. Wolston Park Golf Course was also built by patients and staff of the said Hospital, again being a therapeutic activity. It was then called the Golf Sports Club for the recreation of staff, patients and relatives. In August 1971, an annual inter-hospital competition between three hospitals, namely Wolston Park, Challinor Centre, Ipswich and Bailie Henderson, Toowoomba, competed for the Dr Noble Cup and the Dr Ellerton Shield by the staff and patients (patients who played the game of golf were automatically made Honorary Members, whilst a patient of Wolston Park Hospital). The Dr Noble Cup was presented to the best single event; the Dr Ellerton Shield was for the best six players from a Hospital. Lauric Howard, then of Challinor Centre, won the Dr Noble Cup with 35 points. The winning team for Wolston Park Hospital for the Shield was Doug Henshall, Kevin Halls, Dr Raoul Daniels, Dr John Waller, Terry Hughes and Jack Paddock, with 122 points. In 1971, the Club was also registered with the Brisbane District Golf Association, and membership opened to non-staff members. The present officials of the Club are: Dr Orme Orford (President), John Jenkins (Captain), Ray Whyte (Treasurer), and Doug Henshall (Secretary). The first Club Champions and Mixed Foursome Champions were: Laurie Howard (handicap - 3) for members and Mrs Patsy Daniels (wife of Dr Daniels, a medical staff member) (handicap - 2), for the associates. A few discharged patients returned each day to work on the course and received a nominal wage, which speaks for itself as a proven therapeutic area over the years. The Clubhouse sat behind the Canteen and was built with funds accumulated by the Club. The old clubhouse had a colourful history: it was first a canteen at the Redbank Army Camp during World War 2, then moved to Wolston Park Hospital and was used as a hairdressing salon. The late Dr Clive Boyce (past Medical Superintendent of Wolston Park Hospital, then called Brisbane Mental Hospital) won the Ellerton Cup in 1950, and his son, Pat Boyce, handed it back to the club in October 1982 for all to view. Wolston Park Golf Club History Update The first European to walk Gailes Golf Course was John Oxley. In 1823, Oxley discovered the Brisbane River. Oxley walked to Dingo Hill, which now accommodates the main building of Wolston Park Hospital. Gailes Golf Course had one founder — Dr H. Byan Ellerton, an Englishman of rare quality. Dr Ellerton took up an appointment at Wolston Park Hospital, the then Brisbane Mental Asylum, in 1909. A cricket fanatic, he soon had first-class cricket facilities at the Hospital and a wicket prepared by no other than Jack Farquhar, the future famed Gabba Curator. When Dr Ellerton turned to golf, he found the travel to the Brisbane Golf Club so irksome that he decided to build his own course. And so Goodna Golf Club (later Gailes) was born on Monday evening, February 4th, 1924. In the era of the horse and buggy, most members travelled by train to play golf. Unfortunately, trains rarely stopped at Dingo Hill Station, as it was then called. So the club secretary approached the Railway Department and secured a commitment to stop certain trains from May 1st, 1924, so members could pursue their sport. The station changed its name to Gailes on September 10th, 1925, and the golf club followed suit in March 1935. The Ellerton Cup was established in 1929 to celebrate the opening of the second 9 holes and to permanently acknowledge Byan Ellerton as the club founder. The Wolston Park Golf Club was originally the Hospital Sports Club, combining golf, cricket, bowls and tennis. The Wolston Park Golf Club was formed in 1961 by Dr Clive Boyce, then Medical Superintendent, and the late W. K. Hynd, a Head Male Nurse. W. K. Hynd and the late Norm Campbell, Male Nurse, designed the first 9 holes; Bob Howard served as Treasurer. When first formed, the nine-hole golf course was used only by hospital staff and patients. The club was affiliated with the B.D.G.A. in 1970 and opened to non-hospital staff. The 120 members, made up of staff and patients, used the facilities of the Gailes Golf Clubhouse, although there was no other affiliation with that club. Wolston Park Golf Course was also built by patients and staff of the said Hospital, again being a therapeutic activity. It was then called the Golf Sports Club for the recreation of staff, patients and relatives. In August 1971, an annual inter-hospital competition between three hospitals, namely Wolston Park, Challinor Centre, Ipswich and Baillie Henderson, Toowoomba, competed for the Dr Noble Cup and the Dr Ellerton Shield (the staff and patients who played the game of golf were automatically made Honorary Members, whilst a patient of Wolston Park Hospital). The Dr Noble Cup was presented to the best single event; the Dr Ellerton Shield was for the best six players from a Hospital. Laurie Howard, then of Challinor Centre, won the Dr Noble Cup with 35 points. The winning team for Wolston Park Hospital for the Shield was Doug Henshall, Kevin Halls, Dr Raoul Daniels, Dr John Waller, Terry Hughes and Jack Paddock, with 122 points. Also in 1971, the Club registered with the Brisbane District Golf Association, and membership opened to non-staff members. The present officials of the Club are: Dr Orme Orford (President), John Jenkins (Captain), Ray Whyte (Treasurer), and Doug Henshall (Secretary). The first Club Champions and Mixed Foursome Champions were: Laurie Howard (handicap - 3) for members and Mrs Patsy Daniels (wife of Dr Daniels, a medical staff member) (handicap - 2) for the associates. A few discharged patients returned each day to work on the course and received a nominal wage, which speaks for itself as a proven therapeutic area over the years. The Clubhouse sat behind the Canteen and was built with funds accumulated by the Club. The old clubhouse had a colourful history: it was first a canteen at the Redbank Army Camp during World War 2, then moved to Wolston Park Hospital and was used as a hairdressing salon. The late Dr Clive Boyce (past Medical Superintendent of Wolston Park Hospital, then called Brisbane Mental Hospital) won the Ellerton Cup in 1950, and his son, Pat Boyce, handed it back to the club in October 1982 for all to view. The staff and patients of Wolston Park Hospital built Gailes Golf Course, which was a rewarding activity. Currently, only one ex-patient is employed at Gailes Golf Course. A private enterprise now runs the club. Start of the Wolston Park Golf Club Click to view Club Monthly Medal Pin Click to view 26 January, 1969 Click to view Golf Club when located in the hospital complex Click to view Golf Club when located in the hospital complex Click to view Past Presidents Click to view Trying it out for the first time. Click to view 1979 Cabinet Documents Click to view 1978 Cabinet Documents Click to view 1978 Cabinet Documents Click to view 1979 Cabinet Documents Click to view 1979 Cabinet Documents Click to view 1988 Cabinet Document Click to view The Original Golf Club Plan Click to view 1986 Plaque Click to view 2001 Plaque when moved to the Riverside Ballroom complex Click to view Dr Ellerton Shield Click to view Click to view Click to view Click to view Click to view Click to view

Cafeteria Built-in 1954 The cafeteria, also known as the Riverside Ballroom, is a low-set brick building with a hipped roof, located in the centre of the area. It is long and narrow, stretching along the east/west ridgeline and has many windows on its northern side with impressive views across the recreation area’s amphitheatre to the Brisbane River and landscape beyond. Built initially as the communal dining room that could seat 500 patients, along with a servery, wash-up room, preparation room and stores, staff rooms and lavatories and patients' abulations and lavatories. It remains largely intact and, in 2020, serves as the clubhouse for the Wolston Park Golf Club. Minimal alterations include a freestanding, open-sided shelter on the northern side; replacement of the roof cladding from corrugated asbestos sheets to corrugated metal sheets; rearrangement of the ablutions; insertion of folding partitions into the long dining room; and replacement of the folding doors on the northern side of the dining room. Features of the Cafeteria of state-level cultural heritage significance also include Form and layout: long, narrow building with short projecting blocks for ablutions and kitchen; hipped roof; long dining room with views and access out to the north, servery bar and access to the kitchen at the south, large fireplace at the east, and access through to the ablutions at the west Curvilinear paved terrace on the northern side with a brick window and flower boxes. Materials: face brick walls and squat chimney; flat sheet-lined eaves; timber floor in the dining room; original partitions (timber-framed, flat sheet-lined; flat sheet-lined ceilings with timber battens Servery bar Original windows and doors Immediate landscape surround: adjacent lawn areas and a row of three mature bookleaf pines (Thuja orientalis) to the southwest. Research Note Another important building project undertaken by Dr Basil Strafford for female patients at the time was the construction of a dedicated female recreation facility, which commenced in 1951 on approximately 2.5 hectares on the western edge of the reserve, adjacent to the Brisbane River. The principal building within the area was the cafeteria with facilities to serve 500 patients [now Wolston Park Golf Club house]. Patients could spend the entire day in the recreation area without returning to the wards for midday meals. 1950 plan Click to view 1950 plan Click to view First day of operation in 1954 Click to view Ballroom after 1954 opening Click to view Fireplace 1953 Click to view Ballroom 2024 Click to view Rear entrance Click to view Chimney with a curious extension Click to view Curious extension Click to view Looking towards the ballroom from the front Click to view Kitchen entrance Click to view Side entrance Click to view Rear entrance Click to view Gardens and ballroom Click to view Gardens and ballroom Click to view Gardens with louvres Click to view Another entrance at the rear Click to view Location of the toilets Click to view Location of the toilets Click to view Ballroom 2024 Click to view Ballroom 2024 Click to view 161727967_10160697747206521_7856219398783697524_n.jpg Click to view Fireplace with sandstone rock, brick and original timber floor Click to view Fireplace with bricks Click to view Fireplace with sandstone rock Click to view

Medical Superintendent’s Residence Built-in 1898 Today, known as Manor House This building was erected in 1897 as a residence for the medical superintendent. It replaced a timber residence which had been severely damaged in the 1893 flood. They selected a new site on higher ground, away from the main asylum. The residence comprised a drawing room, bedrooms, dining room, pantry, servery, bathroom, kitchen, servants' room, nursery, office, and a detached washhouse and laundry. Fireplaces (marble, timber, tile surrounds) Also located nearby are two small freestanding brick outbuildings retained to the house’s rear (north) – a former garage (coach house) and a smaller, square building (smokehouse) Chronology: 1898: building construction was completed 1912: additions were added 1966: alterations to the kitchen wing Superintendent's Residence 1909 Click to view Superintendent's Residence around the 1950s Click to view Medical Superintendent’s Residence with Smokehouse can be seen in the right corner. Click to view Medical Superintendent’s Residence 1909 overlay with 2022 Click to view Smokehouse heritage collection from State Library of Queensland 2001 Click to view

Assistant Medical Superintendent’s Residence & Garden Built-in 1912 The building was erected in 1912 as a residence for the After an extensive fire in 1911, the senior assistant medical superintendent's residence was destroyed. Plans for a new residence were put in place immediately. Ellerton recommended building it in brick, but this was rejected as too expensive. However, Ellerton did persuade the Department of Works to specify Wunderlich pressed metal ceilings in the dining room and sitting rooms for the new building. Tenders were called in June 1911, and construction was completed the following year. Also had a former tennis court along with rendered masonry garden stairs, including concrete lion statues Chronology: 1912: construction was completed 1930: front verandah extended Assistant Medical Superintendent Residence Click to view Assistant Medical Superintendent Residence location of former tennis court Click to view Assistant Medical Superintendent Residence location of former tennis court rendered masonry garden stairs including concrete lion statues Click to view Assistant Medical Superintendent Residence Click to view Assistant Medical Superintendent’s Residence Click to view Assistant Medical Superintendent Residence Click to view Original and early brass door, fanlight, and window hardware Click to view timber joinery. Click to view Original and early brass door, fanlight, and window hardware Click to view Timber joinery Click to view Timber joinery including moulded architraves, picture rails, panelled doors, fretwork fanlights, multi-paned windows, window seats (dining room) Click to view Facebrick chimney Click to view Lion statues Click to view Lion statues Click to view