Scott Bird Heritage Photography
Documenting Australia's rich Aboriginal and European history.
Boot Scrapers & Carriage Blocks
Both Boot Scrapers (to scrape the mud off your boots when you're entering a building) and Carriage Blocks (sometimes 'Mounting Blocks', to help you onto a horse or in to a carriage) have both disappeared from newer buildings - neither being necessary now.
Made obsolete by sealed roads and motorised vehicles respetively.
Read MoreMade obsolete by sealed roads and motorised vehicles respetively.
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Lilyfield, Sydney, NSW, Australia
The former 'Callan Park Hospital for the Insane' beside the Iron Cove. Originally a private estate owned by Crown Solicitor and Police Magistrate John Ryan Brenan, it was later purchased by the Colonial Government and repurposed as a site for a new lunatic asylum.
The hospital operated here from 1885-1994. Several of the buildings are now home to the 'Sydney College of the Arts' (part of Sydney University).
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