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Urban Exploration – Glenside Hospital – The Birches, The Grove & The Occupational Therapy Centre

Continuing my series on the various buildings and wards which make up the former Glenside Hospital.  For more than a century the collection of buildings now known as Glenside Hospital were home to Adelaide’s abandoned, sick and insane. Within the walls of the 130 acre hospital were countless tales not just of sorrow but also ground-breaking, world-first advancements in the treatment of […]

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Urban Exploration – The Mortuary

This former mortuary once served the local hospital.  Opening in the 1920s, the hospital catered primarily for patients with mental illness and intellectual disabilities.  The care and treatment of mental illness and intellectual disability was poor and the two were often grouped together.  A 1950s investigation into the hospital revealed that children and adult patients were being housed […]

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