EXPLORING SYDNEY - GLADESVILLE HOSPITAL HISTORY TOUR - Urban Exploration // Australian Documentary 

My Dad worked as a psychiatrist at this hospital from 1965 to about 1976. We lived on the grounds in one of the doctor’s residences. At about 11:52 minutes in, you show a large two storey dark brick house. That was our home. There were three bedrooms upstairs and one bathroom that included the toilet. My bedroom was downstairs and there was a large living room, kitchen, laundry and study. All rooms had an open fireplace. It’s quite strange to see it now, as back then it had lawns that were fenced off with tall hedges that my Dad used to trim. The pool was in constant use in the 1960’s when I was in primary school and I could swim the length underwater, holding my breath. At times some patients would come down with their nurses. It was always sparkling clean. Thank you for this lovely trip down memory lane.

Really enjoyed this. I live in Gladesville and have been there many times. I like the folly although some locals have referred to it a 'tack room'(where horse harnesses were kept and maintained). Also have heard it has been used for modern witch covens for their meetings. There used to be a small museum there onsite and run by volunteers but it was only open about once a month. It had a lot of old medical equipment on display but not a lot relevant to the hospital. I am also fascinated by the number of people buried there in the area along Victoria Road in a long tree avenue west of Henley Cottage(your video captured a couple of the prominent headstones). Apparently the govt. wanted to sell the site to developers until an action group exposed the number of graves there. I think they disinterred some that they could identify and moved their remains to Field of Mars before realising the enormity of the situation.

ahhh... beautiful sydney.

This is put together really well, absolutely amazing mate. Thanks

Thank you for sharing this video. I haven’t got there yet cause of Covid. I finally found my Great Great Grandmother and she is buried there. Everyone else have made out she ran off and married someone else but she was committed here and didn’t last a year cause she was so sick. She shouldn’t have been committed as she was sick with kidney failure and melancholia which to me suggests she had post natal depression after just having my Great Grandmother. Mary Jane Rogers-Cole was Irish and she married my Great Great Grandfather Thomas Cole (Mariner) in 1856 in Scots church Sydney.

My great grandmother was a psychiatric nurse at this hospital. That was probably around 1910-20s.

Loved the video it was very educational and informative. If you get a chance you should do a tour of beechworth down in Vic.

This was great! Thank you for the video and all the research.

Another great informative video. Thanks again

Once again amazing , Thanks

Very good. You missed though the “Madman tunnel” which is now blocked up. The road still exists. The northern side of the road had buildings but were lost due to development. I used to walk through there in the 1980’s. Great research though.

Speaking of the Parramatta Female Factory, you should do an episode on that, especially the Parramatta Girls Home (1 Fleet Street) which retains some of the 'abandoned buildings' feel. Of course, since many of the Parragirls are still alive, this is something that needs to be done with sensitivity.

Sweet content mate, great location keep up the wicked works. Cheers 👍🏻 Black collar project 👻

Wow that was an interesting story

A great place to wander

Very informative documentary. I remember our educator telling us stories how people with disabilities were treated back then. Nice video! 💯

Love the b Video mate I'm a big fan,I hope you grow back your beautiful long hair

Very informative

Excellent

Always wished that tunnel at the beginning of the video had no GRAFFITI in it. Why are there no complaints about it? or why doesn't it get removed?

I especially liked how you source the pictures and footage.

I use to live near this (former) hospital (before moving to Queensland) and applied for Nursing jobs there when it was open, I had friends and family that worked there. The now residential accommodation you see around the 30 second mark was also once a part of the hospital. There was a history of cruelty and sadness here, as no doubt good as well and if legends are true (which I can't confirm or deny) is suppose to be haunted as well.

Live the videos! Keep them coming

Looks so much like (architecturally) Callan Park”s Kirkbride buildings.

Well documented mate. This place is on my list for future explores. See any potential ways into closed buildings by any chance?

Very interesting and well-produced video. Have just found your channel and enjoying your content. Just asked my 89 yo Mum about Fairyland who knew of it but never went. We agreed that some older family members may have so ww are going to look through Grandparents' photo albums to see if anything is recognizable. Keep up the great work!

what a nice young man.

Interesting! My convict ancestor died in the Tarban Creek Asylum.

I spent a month making handrails by myself in those first two buildings in the beginning of the video. Found some creepy stuff behind a staircase . Suitcases of people's belongings old medical records. I always felt very weird upstairs where all the cupboards and beds were. Happened to find a photo on the net of children in straight jackets all sitting on the floor upstairs where I was working. Bad stuff went down there. Went under the road where those old toilets are. Once again weird feeling . Silly going under there but it did. What happened under there who knows.

Wish I could be there!

Hello. Nice document. Is this place currently available, could I do such a tour of this place legibly?

Is the folly still there? I couldn’t see it when I went.

Great voice impressions great tour Ta

Hey, i really like this content and want to watch, but the music is distracting and makes it hard to listen to you. I'd love if you could upload a video with the music turned off :)

Funny old English ascent when you narrate the old news papers lol I bet you giggle to ur self

Most of Gladesville was closed in in 1993 and most of the buildings demolished except the few remaining my father in law worked there after returning from the 2WW, the remaining buildings may look nice historically but its the two underground levels that no longer exist single exclusion what could only be called in any terms total isolation , mental health was so misunderstood back then, source for the underground levels which obviously now have become foundations for town house complexes, well an old fella in his later years and yes I visited the site with him a true ANZAC in 1981 , a lot of demo and concrete was used to hide the truth , enough said , I will see myself out

Are you interested in a haunted house in st Mary's western Sydney.