• Title
  Peat Island Centre, 2010 / photographed by Warren Clarke
• Creator
  Warren D. Clarke
• Call number
  a4791 Online
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  29 April - 9 September, 2010
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  923918
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  8 photographs - digital, TIFF file, coloured
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  A large residential centre for people with intellectual disabilities, the Peat Island Centre closed in 2010 after 99 years of operation. Peat Island is located on the lower reaches of the Hawkesbury River, about 50 kilometres north of Sydney. Accommodation for people with an intellectual disability was established on the island in 1911. Peat Island was identified for closure in the 1983 Richmond Report, which recommended a move away from institutionalised care towards community integration. In 1989 responsibility for institutions for people with an intellectual disability, including Peat Island, was transferred from the Department of Health to the Department of Family and Youth and Community Services, to reinforce the difference between intellectual disability and mental illness. The name Peat Island Centre was adopted at this time. In 2001 the Peat Island Centre came under the control of a new Government agency, the Department of Ageing, Disability and Home Care. The Department launched a strategy in 2006 to provide residential assistance for people with an intellectual disability, which included a commitment to close all large residential centres. Two years later it was announced that the Peat Island Centre would be closed by 2010, with residents being relocated to purpose-built care facilities at Hamlyn Terrace and Wadalba. Reference: Our island home : a history of Peat Island / [Author and researcher Laila Ellmoos, oral historian Sue Andersen, photographer William Newell]. Sydney, N.S.W. : Ageing, Disability & Home Care, [2010]. This book was published to commemorate the closure of the Peat Island Centre in 2010.
• Scope and Content
  1. Peat Island Centre viewed from the eastern bank of the Hawkesbury River adjacent to the F3 (Pacific Highway), 12 August 2010
  2. The northern end of the Peat Island Centre as viewed from the bridge and causeway linking it to the mainland section of the grounds, 12 August 2010
  3. Peat Island resident Ronald Kennedy awaits the mail delivery service from the Hawkesbury ferry seen in the distance. The ferry makes daily deliveries to the pier on the western side of the island, 13 July 2010
  4. Peat Island residents l to r, Warwick Lewis, Leslie Hackett, Sally Tsin (doctor), Fred Nissen and Fred Slogett. Doctor Sally Tsin makes her weekly visit to Peat Island, 29 April 2010
  5. Peat Island residents foreground l to r, Kevin Hester and Jack Phillips enjoying a game of improvised bowls helped by the centre's nursing staff, 13 July 2010
  6. Peat Island resident Richard McLachlan making chains from milk bottle tops in the centre's art and craft facility, 13 July 2010
  7. Peat Island residents l to r, John White, Noel Culpin, Michael Pringle and John Feinberg wait in line adjacent to the island's medical clinic for a routine eye test, 26 July 2010
  8. Peat Island Down Syndrome residents l to r, Christine Langford and Diane Martin, 9 September 2010
• Copying Conditions
  Copyright status:: In copyright - Life of photographer plus 70 years
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy Warren Clarke
• Description source
  
  Captions supplied by photographer
• General note
  
  Digital order no:Album ID : 947268
• Subject
  Group homes for people with mental disabilities--New South Wales
  
• Topic
  disabilities
  
• Place
  Peat Island (Hawkesbury River, N.S.W.)
  Peat Island Centre (Peat Island, N.S.W.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE15986840

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