Archives urn The backyard of Big Hill

The backyard of Big Hill Post Office

The building sits in a region where European selectors first arrived in 1829

to the right

its walls rusted through decades of Southern Tablelands winters

its walls stripped back to bare plaster and peeling paint

Archives urn The backyard of Big HillDust covered patient files and medical records fill the abandoned archives of Lewisham Hospital's novitiate building, photographed in 2019. The Little Company of Mary ran this complex from 1889 until 1986, building one of Sydney's Inner West's most significant Catholic institutions across nearly a century of continuous operation. Part of the Lewisham Hospital series.