Kirkbride Cells sofa Signal flag pigeon holes sit

Signal flag pigeon holes sit to its left

still arranged as though a meal might yet be served

catching dust motes in a shaft above exposed timber beams and industrial remnants

The word "Help" is scrawled across a decaying wall inside Female Ward 9 and 10 of the Kirkbride Complex at Callan Park

Kirkbride Cells sofa Signal flag pigeon holes sitConfined cells from Female Wards 9 and 10 within the Kirkbride Complex at Callan Park, their plaster walls peeling back in long strips under barred windows. The wards were part of a pavilion type layout designed from 1880 for moral therapy, where light and distributed space were the treatment itself. By 1930 the hospital held 1,500 patients against a designed capacity of 766. Part of the Callan Park series.