Soft Light switch house A first aid kit hangs

A first aid kit hangs undisturbed on a classroom wall at Macquarie Boys Technology High School

The works closed permanently in August 1988

The NSW State Heritage Inventory records Numbla Vale as a listed locality

the corrugated iron walls rusting back into the landscape

Soft Light switch house A first aid kit hangsA ward inside Callan Park's Kirkbride Complex, photographed in 2018. Gentle light moves across walls where plaster has pulled away and paint has lost its grip, the room stripped back to bare surfaces. The Kirkbride Complex was built from 1880 as Australia's first purpose built hospital for moral therapy, a design rooted in the idea that light, air, and landscape were themselves treatment. Female Ward 9 10 was part of that original intention. Part of