Broughton Hall Psychiatric Clinic. Broughton Hall Psychiatric Clinic. Peter Reynolds. Ken Leong. The Broughton Hall Psychiatric Clinic lies within the traditional lands of the Eora people. Governor Macquarie granted John Gardiner Austen, the keeper of Sydney's town clock, 1. Spring Cove, on 3. August 1. 81. 9. Spring Cove, later known as Austenham, is now within the area of the goods railway line, adjacent to Lilyfield Road, Perry Street, Iron Cove and Callan Park. He had by then fulfilled the governor's requirement that he cultivate 2. In 1. 83. 5, Rogers in turn sold to the Deputy Surveyor General, Captain Samuel Augustus Perry, for . The drawing of a bishop's mitre in the title block of the sale plan, perhaps to influence potential buyers, is probably a reference to William Grant Broughton, Anglican Bishop of Australia. One of the buyers attracted to the sale, however, was the owner of the adjoining Garryowen Estate, John Ryan Brenan, who bought a three- acre (1. Brenan Street (now Wharf Road) and Church Street in 1. After paying the purchase price of . The new building was a 'brick stuccoed house' with stables and was rated at . The Reverend Joseph Walpole leased the building as Broughton House School and Boarding Academy in 1. Hume quickly profited from the transaction by reselling to John Philip Deane for . He arrived in Hobart Town on 1. July 1. 82. 2 where he became a hotel- keeper and had other business interests as well. In 1. 82. 5 he advertised for pupils for pianoforte and violin and became organist of St David's Church where he played the first organ to be imported to Australia. He also performed in many concerts and played the violin in the Theatre Royal orchestra. He is reputed to have introduced chamber music to Australia. In 1. 84. 6, Deane sold Broughton House to John Grahame, a Sydney merchant, for . PENNSYLVANIA ARCHIVES SECOND SERIES Vol VIII Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives. USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or. The 1611 King James Version and its early revisions Unknown to many people is the fact that the KJV actually was revised many times between the date of its first publication in 1611 and the publication of the Revised Version, which was published. Grahame leased the house to George King, a gentleman, who bought the property in 1. Montefiore sold in the following year to merchant Robert Scott Ross for . He was a well- connected Sydney businessman in partnership with Frederick Parsons of Leichhardt and Frederick Geard of Balmain. His success in the business world is reflected in the fact that he extended the house to 2. These additions were a factor in the house being converted to a home for the mentally ill in later years. After his death on 2 July 1. Available in the following formats: Facsimile PDF 25.5 MB This is a facsimile or image-based PDF made from scans of the original book. MARC Record 1.62 KB MAchine-Readable Cataloging record. Kindle 759 KB This is an E-book formatted for Amazon Kindle. A vote of no confidence in the British Labour Government of James Callaghan occurred on 28 March 1979. The vote was brought by Opposition leader Margaret Thatcher and was lost by the Labour Government by one vote (311 votes to 310), which was announced at. DNA and genealogy collaboration for James I Stewart born 1394 Dumferline Palace, Dumfermline, Fifeshire, Scotland died 1437 Perth, Perthshire, Scotland including ancestry + 2 photos + 1 family memories + 2 genealogist comments + questions + Y-chromosome. Annandale timber merchants William and Frederick Langdon in 1. The Langdons placed Broughton Hall and other buildings on the 2. Into this haven of peace came 6. Broughton Hall became the Number 1. Australian Army Hospital reserved for shell shock cases. By the end of the World War I, 1,0. Broughton Hall. Of this number 9. On 4 June 1. 91. 8 the Commonwealth government formally resumed the entire property. Those who could afford it were admitted to private nursing homes if they were mentally afflicted but not certifiably insane. This left no places of care for mentally disturbed wage- earners between the general hospitals and the mental asylums. Broughton Hall filled this need when it became the Broughton Hall Psychiatric Clinic, a 'pioneer enterprise', on 4 April 1. The landscaping of the grounds consisted of 'building hills where none had been, valleys, sunken gardens, streams, bridges and stone walls.' . There was a degree of practicality about his efforts. Overflow from the hospital refrigerator became the source of a fish- bearing stream spanned by ornamental bridges. It meandered through a planted forest which was a sanctuary for birds. His scheme was worked out in meticulous detail on a drawing board as carefully as if it had been in an engineering workshop. Each view was different and as a patient turned a corner it was to notice a new aspect, striking because of its perfection. He was keen student of the Orient and provided many Chinese and Japanese ornamental pieces for the grounds. Evan Jones is said to have developed an understanding with the patients who worked with him in creating the grounds. This partnership saw the creation of a zoological garden with strutting peacocks, kangaroos, emus and other Australian fauna as well as a well- stocked aviary 'particularly of cockatoos and parrots'. The dilapidated kangaroo house survived until 1. Despite Evan Jones's efforts until his death in 1. His scheme for a desert scene complete with dry- climate plants never eventuated. Major buildings were planned close to Glover and Church streets and laid out to look inward to the gardens. The exception was the Administration Block which had an entablatured portico as the hospital's public entrance fronting Church Street. The clinic expands. In the early 1. 92. When the clinic was expanded in the early 1. Broughton Hall became Ward 1, and Wards 2 to 4 were built. The new clinic, however, did not receive legal status until the passing of the Lunacy Amendment Act in 1. The next building program took place from 1. A new occupational therapy building was followed by an electrotherapy unit and a new canteen. Despite not actually being in Rozelle, the hospital still bears that name. Its current location, according to the Geographical Names Board, is Lilyfield. The old Broughton Hall (Broughton House) served as a female ward until its closure in 1. From then until 1. In 1. 97. 4 it became a 'home' for patients of the Adolescent Unit. It was renamed Rivendell, from the novels of JRR Tolkien – a place of goodness, peace and strength, devoid of all evils. After ceasing to be a 'home', the old house became sadly derelict and vandalised. The former grand residence, left empty and with doors swinging open, caught fire in the 1. Broughton Hall has been threatened with closure, sparking persistent and effective resident action to save it, unseparated from Callan Park, as a centre for mental health.
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