Rozelle Hospital Oral History Project, interviews by Roslyn Burge and Ann-Therese King, with related photographs

MLOH 642 / 1-16

fonds

1973, 2008-2010

Nonmusical Sound Recordings, Oral Histories, Graphic Materials, Photographs, Textual Records

932545

Sound Recording : CY MLOH 642/1-16

48 audio files (25 hr., 13 min.) - digital, WAV, stereo (48 kHz, 24 bit)
19 photographs - digital, JPEGs, colour
1 photograph - digital, TIFF, black and white
1 photograph - digital, BMP, colour
16 text files (428 pages) - digital, Microsoft Word

The Rozelle Hospital Oral History project sought to record the memories of people who worked at Rozelle Hospital, Lilyfield, New South Wales. Leichhardt Council funded Roslyn Burge to undertake this project through the award of a Local History Grant in 2007.

In 2007 it was proposed that Rozelle Hospital would close in March 2008. The government had built a new hospital offering acute care adjacent to Concord Hospital and remaining patients were transferred there on 30 April 2008. It was therefore considered imperative to record the memories of people had worked at the hospital or had some involvement with the hospital. Eight men and women who worked or lived at Rozelle Hospital between 1935 and 2008 participated in the project. Their stories provide an account of changing patterns of work, hospital practices, patient care and staff support across the twentieth century at Callan Park and Broughton Hall (amalgamated in 1976 to Rozelle Hospital).

Callan Park was a purpose built psychiatric institution which provided care to the state of New South Wales from 1876, when the first 44 male patients were moved to Garry Owen House from Tarban Creek – that is for a period of 131 years.

Broughton Hall Psychiatric Clinic (adjacent to Callan Park) was built as a family home and was first used to accommodate psychiatric patients in 1916 when the Langdon family lent their home to the government for soldiers returning from the First World War. Broughton Hall Psychiatric Clinic was amalgamated with Callan Park in 1976 to form Rozelle Hospital.

Reference
Library correspondence file and
The Dictionary of Sydney. https://dictionaryofsydney.org/entry/callan_park_mental_hospital, (accessed 21 October 2021)

This collection comprises sixteen oral history interviews, with accompanying transcripts, which document the experiences of people who have been associated with Rozelle Hosptal, previously called Callan Park. Interviewees include current and former staff and their relatives, and a former resident.


File 01: Caroline Bray interview and photograph, by Ann-Therese King, 5 June 2009

File 02: Audrey Church interview and photographs, by Roslyn Burge, 12 May 2010, and related photograph

File 03: Graeme Curry interview and photograh, by Roslyn Burge, 9 June 2009

File 04: Monika Da Rocha interview and photograph, by Roslyn Burge, 13 March 2008

File 05: Jill Faddy interview and photograph, by Roslyn Burge, 14 May 2009

File 06: Paul Gilchrist interview and photograph, by Roslyn Burge, 17 May 2009

File 07: Julie Gover interview and photograph, by Roslyn Burge, 16 February, 8 March, 12 March and 29 November 2008

File 08: Peter Gray interview by Ann-Therese King, 21 August 2009, and related photographs

File 09: Dr Neil Jeyasingam interview and photograph, by Roslyn Burge, 18 February 2008

File 10: Jess Learing interview and photographs, by Roslyn Burge, 28 November and 12 December 2008

File 11: Dr Jean Lennane interview and photograph, by Roslyn Burge, 14 November 2008

File 12: Vickie Melanson interview and photograph, by Roslyn Burge, 24 April 2009

File 13: Randall Millington interview and photograph, by Roslyn Burge, 8 February 2008

File 14: Gary Rowley interview and photograph, by Roslyn Burge, 5 March 2008

File 15: John Snowdon interview and photograph, by Roslyn Burge, 15 February 2008

File 16: June Spiers interview by Ann-Therese King, 2 June 2009

In copyright:
Copyright holder:: Roslyn Burge
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright holder