Prior to this, the facility was conceived in , began being built in , was taken over by RAAF in , was a WAAF training depot from , and from provided emergency accommodation for the Department of Housing. User Contributed Tags Login to tag this record with meaningful keywords to make it easier to discover. Local : VA EndNote Web. EndNote Help. Save Search. In Larundel was given to the Department of Housing for emergency accommodation. The wards were hastily converted to flats. By there were families living at Larundel.
By November the last of the families had moved out and thirty male patients were transferred from Mont Park Hospital. Despite this large parts of the hospital remained unfinished and a low Government priority.
It was not until that Larundel was officially opened as a mental hospital. It had patients, a quarter of which were women. Two years later eight additional wards opened, allowing for another patients of which were female. By the early s Larundel had a number of wards operating dealing with a wide variety of psychological illnesses.
Are you sharing these stories online somewhere? Seems like a lot of people visiting this page had personal connections to the place — so I hope someone is able help you with this! My dad, a WWII victim spent years here off an on. I was about years of age, when I went to visit him. I was shielded by the catering lady taking me to the kitchen for a biscuit and a milo. Thank you for sharing this, Jill.
Having only seen the place abandoned, I really appreciate hearing these little human stories from its time in operation. Alone in a room on my 4th venture taking routine photos I walked into a coldspot , I was suddenly overcome by intense fear for my life , evil , dread and I went to hell in my own mind , I saw nothing but I felt the full force of something I had disturbed in that room.
Sounds like a powerful experience. Did you ever go back after that? I went here the end of last year if you want to explore id be fast they are pulling down buildings and putting up housing theres not much left of the place.
She was given shock therapy. My dad will not talk about it. Noone in my family will talk about it. I feel sorry for my nanna who i never met as she died before i was born. She got put in larundel for supposedly having depression and being crazy and was put through shock therapy.
I hate the way she was treated. If I can ask you a few questions please get in touch. I was a non-voluntary inmate of Larundel in It was a pretty terrible place but I did get out. I was sane when I went in, slightly less so when I got out. I wonder if someone will write its history,. So often the history of these places is recorded through official records, rather than making use of first hand accounts. Glad to hear you got out, anyway. Very interesting blog to read before attending the old asylum too.
Glad you found the information here interesting, too! Thanks for commenting. But thats what i loved about this place, it would scare the crap out of ya, especially considering we were Brilliant comment, thanks for sharing this Joe! I can only imagine how terrifying I would have found this place when I was 14… but I think if I lived nearby, I probably would have spent most nights there.
So you heard the music box, then? Interesting stuff. Does that sounds believable to you? You are wrong,A ward was for new arrivals, north 6 and north 8 was for violent offenders. You would be put on medication,when ok,you would be transfered to an open ward.
Yes, I heard something about a renovation project going down at Larundel. If you want to see something similar, you might want to go and check out Aradale. I really wanted to go, but ran out of time in the end. Hey darmen when you visit the aradale mental asylum are you allowed to do the same blog thing that you did on the laurundel mental asylum because this was very entertaining and interesting.
Please do more excursions like this???? Hi Darmon, I am potentially making a documentary about Larundel and was wondering if I could possibly use your pictures as a part of it, as many of the great shots you have are not accessible anymore. Thanks, Tessa Rigby. Hi Tess. Sounds like an interesting project — could you possibly send me an email about this? There were some signs of serious fire damage on the ground floor of the main building, but the place has obviously survived it — so who knows?
They may have demolished more of the buildings since my visit last year, however. I went in today! Sounds like you took the same route as me! Glad you managed to get in, hope you enjoyed the place. I live very close to the asylum, i have heard this music there before and got very intrigued. I studied the area for months, most people believe its the La trobe bells that people hear and say its ghosts afterwards, ive heard the bells there at midnight and its nothing like this but this music is in fact the tune of a local ice cream truck, this is what everyone has been hearing including me over the years for people to believe there is the ghost of a young girl haunting the place, and yes, this ice cream truck can even be heard very late at night.
Brilliant, thank you so much for posting this…. Correction noted, thanks! Also, cheers for the tip re. I certainly do my best! Problem is, I spend so much time travelling that I hardly have time to write the reports anymore…. Love the graffiti eyes. Please leave this field empty. Kristian am 30 March Daniel pm 29 September Michael am 10 September Thanks Michael, you are brave.
Thank you for the awakening Fiona am 27 February Chris am 22 March Catherine pm 23 August I done some exploring there at around 3 am and let me say although all my video and film recording captured nothin that could not be percent debunked,the screaming energy and pain of the decades passed ended up making me run Clint am 22 June Beth pm 7 May Susan am 5 June Robert Frederick pm 7 May My grandmother spent most of her adult life there, it was always hidden within the family, I have been trying to connect with any patients or carers to try and get an idea of what she may have went through Jacqueline houslow am 11 March I am after a direct email address for this place, anyone know where i can find it?
Ben am 2 January Kind regards Jenny am 20 September Chloe am 21 October Hania pm 19 July Let me know if I can get in touch, thanks Tina Cartwright pm 9 October But now I know sorry for any spelling mistakes Rylee am 6 February Ollie am 15 October Do I need a permission to get in?
Joseph pm 14 May Mikpix am 6 May Rod Lloyd am 2 April My father used to cook for the doctors and nurses at Larundel Beryl Manning am 30 March Yvonne am 11 February E am 12 December I am wondering if it was possible for me to have a few words with the owner about possibly taking some photos in this beautiful building with permission from the owner that is as i am very curious on what photos i could produce if i were to get permission nothing would be touched or destroyed or vandalised that you for your time Jake pm 3 October Darmon am 15 October I want to take pic here do?
Patricia Simmons am 29 September Darmon pm 5 October Hi My mother was in Larundel for 8 years from Nicole Hall pm 1 July Darmon am 10 September Any help Kaye Lewandowski am 26 August Darmon pm 5 November This is quite disturbing for me I was admitted in the early 70s and never knew what happend to my records or those who were ther Kaye Lewandowski am 26 August I can't even imagine why this is interesting to anyone, at the very least your term "mental assylum" is offensive and very outdated.
It was an institution and very rarely was any institution run "lovingly" in this country. PS And of course this is interesting to people! Great idea for a piece and fantastic photos. An excellent article Natasha, even if I am damaging my chances for the comment magnet :- 1 reply reply. Very interesting article! Great photos too. Abrahams, student journalist,and shopping officianado, How trite the latter description of yourself, the subject duly warrants the attention of one more concerned with life and the suffering of others.
Yes, just 15 years since the last patient was contained within those. I wish the walls could talk to reveal the atrocities patients endured, often at the hands of the nursing staff and injustices from other patients.
Perhaps these atrocities and conditionswould have provided your article with more credence, rather than highlighting the spookiness of the 'now' Larundel. Try to put your mind to how recent it is since ppeople were interned at Larundel. I prefer to use the term Psychiatric Hospital rather than Mental Asylum, a 19th. While all efforts are seen to be done to eradicate the stigma around mental illness you have chosen to grab onto an archaic title. Did you consider how demeaning "mental asylum" could be to larundel's former "inmates" The kitchen you descrisbed was where our food was dispensed, of meagre helpings while lbeing mostly of indigestible quality.
What is in there you ask. Many dark and horrific stories are within those walls, indelible memories for the "inmates". Larundel was a really scary, formidable place for the "inmates", I am sorry that the buildings now supply mystery and adventure to those who have no comprehension of what it was like to be locked up in Larundel.
I don't find it surprising that Larundel is now a favourite amongst ghost hunters. As an "inmate" in the 's, I can imagine many spirits abound there, of those interned there under atrocious conditions, Larundel was a living hell. As an"inmate" I can onlly concur that it was a creepy place and was a real life version of a horror movie.
In truth you say, Larundel was a lovingly managed psychiatric hospital, nothing could be further than the truth. I would suggest that you research your subject on a more caring and empathic level, having regard for those of us who expererienced first hand the ghastliness of 'The Living Larundel'. I hope lthis prompts you to give regard to the unheard voices of Larundel.
Larundel Survivor, Lou 2 replies reply. I spent a few months here in the early 90s, after suffering a traumatic event when I was a very young adult. It was run like a prison. Patients had to be up at the crack of dawn in the Melbourne winter and were herded into communal showers. Heating was very poor. Then we were given medication which made us perennially sleepy and lethargic but weren't allowed to go to sleep until after 9 pm. It was very difficult to survive here. Often there were predatory patients, eg there was one older gay guy who would try and molest me.
Nurses wouldn't believe my complaints and there was a strong "us versus them" mentality between staff and patients. I'm so glad I was certified as normal within a few months. Had I stayed there, I would have likely gone insane. It's a disgrace that these buildings have been left to be vandalized like this, shame on whoever is responsible for them. The buildings at Janiefield, also in Bundoora have been restored and are now part of a new housing development.
Time for Larundel to also be treated with the respect it deserves. These were from a shoot I did with some friends, turned out really cool! Wow great photo's. My Grandmother was placed in this home unsure if she had a Break down or had Dementia would like to find out her records if any one could tell me on here.
I can remember my mum saying she went to see her mum she was sitting on a chair crying event time she went to see her. Visits stopped so she died without anyone there for her. Hope they re-open it one day. Desy 0 replies reply.
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