Stairwell Colour:N/A Dust-covered timber stairs climb toward

Dust-covered timber stairs climb toward an open attic doorway

textbooks and papers left where students last put them when the school closed in 2009

The school operated from its Rydalmere campus from 1957 until closure in 2009

Peeling paint and corroded fixtures mark the passage of decades since this space served the factory workforce

Stairwell Colour:N/A Dust-covered timber stairs climb towardThe concrete stairwell rises through Female Ward 9 & 10 of the Kirkbride Complex, light falling from high windows onto cracked plaster and layers of peeling paint. The Kirkbride Complex was designed by Colonial Architect James Barnet and Inspector General of the Insane Frederic Norton Manning, with construction completed in 1885. Part of the Callan Park series.