(c)hobartdaily.com - Deserted and run down buildings of the former Royal Derwent Hospital, New Norfolk

Something that may be of interest is that New Norfolk used to be home to a mental hospital and a centre for physically and interllectually disabled clients. With modern treatment techniques the hospital was closed and the clients moved into the community. It left the facilities used in many case the equivalent of a ghost town which has become more run down and looking like today’s picture of a building of the former Royal Derwent Hospital

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