BEECHWORTH LUNATiC ASYLUM ~ ViCTORiA
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- Опубликовано: 10 май 2021
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BEECHWORTH LUNATiC ASYLUM Victoria 2021
May Day Asylum opened on the 24th October 1867, it was the fourth Asylum to be built in Victoria. At the time of completion it was noted as the largest building in the colony. The site for the Asylum was chosen primarily for its healthy elevated position, its capacity for potential expansion and its proximity to the town of Beechworth.
The Asylum was considered a sufficient distance from town but not too far. This made it easier for visitors and delivery of provisions. An impressive early 19th century architecture design of its time, the self sufficient asylum was surrounded by farmland and fields, with its own piggery, stables, orchards and kitchen gardens on site. The asylum featured a theatre for patient recreation as well as tennis courts, an oval and cricket pavilion.
Treatment of asylum patients in the mid to late 1800s was limited. The high altitude winds of Mayday Hills were believed to carry afflictions of the mind away.
Restraint practices were applied either through the wearing of straight jackets or placement into isolation cages, these were the main form of ‘rehabilitation’ provided. With little understanding of mental health, patients were admitted to hospital for genuine mental health conditions such as schizophrenia, depression and the misunderstood physical ailments, epilepsy.
Two signatures were required in order to be admitted to the Asylum and eight were needed to be discharged. It was therefore much harder to get out of the asylum than in. It is estimated that around a third of patients admitted to Mayday Hills left in a coffin.
The nurses’ quarters were built in 1937. Prior to this, provision was made for nurses to sleep in their own private room located within each ward. Nurses were required to live on site unless they could had sufficient reason not to. The top floor of the nurses’ quarters was converted into classrooms for nursing training.
The original garden was designed by a patient, Robert Coates. The gardens were extended and improved over the years by Mr Hugh Linaker in 1912, by Dr Farren Ridge in 1930 and again in the 1980s.
The Melbourne Royal Botanic Gardens supplied many of the exotic trees, many of which can still be seen today.
After 128 years of service, Mayday Hills Lunatic Asylum closed its doors in 1995.
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Please note error; The Building Called Carinya is actually Kurrajong (a cottage for males), the Carinya (a female cottage originally called Myrtle) is across the road from it.
The Asylum also opened in 1867.
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Hi 🙋♂️ friends! Thank you 🙏 for beautiful drive, park, birds 🐦 and house 🏠
Thanks for visiting and glad you enjoyed our adventure. Have a great week.
A beautiful well preserved historiacal plece keep sharing stay connected
Thanks for visiting and that you found this walk around the Asylum very interesting. Have a great weekend Nardz.
Such sad history! Thank you JoJo & Pietro 😘
Very much so. 😢
Another fascinating adventure, thanks for sharing it with us 👍🥰 as always lots of great information 🤩 Hope your all keeping safe & having a nice weekend, Take Care 😍xx
Glad you enjoyed it. You guys keep well and safe too. Thank you for watching.
well done! Grazie della condivisione e Pollice alto.
Grazie Mille. Buona Giornata Ragazze. 😘
This was super cool! We love areas like this - so much history! What an awesome day exploring! Thank you for sharing! How interesting!
Glad you enjoyed coming along with us on this episode Ladies. As much as it had a sad history, there was some good. Have a great day. 👍🏼🙏🏼🤗
Very beautiful green area, interesting story and information, great tour of the buildings and rooms.
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Nice. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for watching!
Hello friends from down under…. It gives me « la chaire de poule » while listening the story and the history of this strange place. Very interesting place but I would not like to have spent some times there….. thanks for sharing another great episode…. Bon week-end et à bientôt ✌️
Bonjour Tikay et Marc. Ce n'est pas un endroit où je voudrais être enfermé. C'est un endroit sombre. Des histoires tristes. Traitements cruels. Glad you enjoyed this episode. Bonne journée 😘
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So good ❤❤
Nice video ❤
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Thank you 🙏🏽
Wonderful place to visit
Thank you. Glad you enjoyed the video. Have a great weekend.
Enjoyed the tour thanks taking us along 😊✌️
Glad you enjoyed and thank you for watching.
Thank you for the virtual tour of the asylum my friend...
Glad you enjoyed it, thank you for dropping by and watching. Have a great weekend.
Great video my friends big like 👍
Big thanks John. Glad you enjoyed the video. Have a great weekend.
Nice buildings, nice place.
Thank you for watching. Have a great day.
Wow. Sometime I'm really glad that we live in different time.. great video as always.
Glad you enjoyed it. Pavel I totally agree with you. It would have been horrific! Hope you are having a great weekend.
perfect music for this. You know all the paranormal I have done. I won't do a asylum. To much negative energy for me. I always feel really wired in them. Hey you are almost at 1K.
Miss Martini, I did the ghost tour a couple of years ago and noticed nothing of the abnormal. I felt quite safe. I suppose if one was on their own, then it might be a little eerie.
Inch by inch, yes I am almost 1k....yeah! Thank you for watching. Have a great week. 😘
hello 🤠👍💞 nice up 39
Thank you, glad you enjoyed this episode. Hope you had a great day.
Wow interesting place you gotta feel for the souls that was in this place
It has a sad history. If people were eccentric or going a little different and admitted, then enough time in this institution would be enough to send you mad. Thank you for watching 👍🏽🙏🏽
Really cool tour guys thank you. Amazing to think 8 people needed to sign to get you out. How cool was that gatehouse. Separating malea and females is exactly what they did in workhouses in the uk only that was for familys deprived and only option was to go and live in these places. Very interesting and informative thanks 😊
Your welcome 🙏🏽 The early years were shocking. Glad you enjoyed the episode. 👍🏽👍🏽🤗
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Thanks for the visit, cheers.
Hahaha Peter got you a beauty @ 0:54, made me laugh!
He got me too 😂 No idea that was coming. Have a great week Daz.
@@CowboyJojosAdventures You too mate. Going to be a cold wet one down here
@@TasdazDownunder yesterday was a stunning day, but we are expecting rain this afternoon, ugh 🤦
Geez, somber place alright, once you're in through the front door little chance you'll come back out, this vid is cool but also a bit eerie, five hundred views so far too, good work Jojo and Peter :)
Thank you Steve. An interesting place to visit, very sad. There are Asylum tours to tell you more about this eerie place. Glad you enjoyed this episode. Have a great weekend.
Buen video me gusta . FELICITACIONES SALUDOS NOS VEMOS
Muchos Gracias Juan. Buen Weekend.
@@CowboyJojosAdventures Igualmente gracias
Amazing guys, we`ll wait u here in Canada to travel with us along the Panamarican trip! 😍
Hello and welcome to our channel. Glad you enjoyed our episode. Look forward to your adventure. Cheers ~ Joseph & Peter
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Well done Joe with this video. People obviously love anything to do with the mentality insane. Great tour of the asylum. So eerie!
Glad you enjoyed it Naile. I made a couple of errors. But I put the name of the correct building in the description box below. I was also 10 years early. It opened 10 year later 1867.
@@CowboyJojosAdventures a slight mistake. I didn’t even notice hahaha
Hi Joe and Peter, I've actually detected there with the comic Chef
adventures down under, Neil ...
Great place we found some great treasures from the past that were related to the instruction...
Scary place at night,
Did you do the ghost Tower??
Should do it mate you won't sleep for days after it🤣..
I have done the Asylum tour, but don’t recall the ghost Tower. It definitely an interesting place 👍🏽
Hey guys, this is our new channel. Came by to make sure we give you a follow. Kisses to you both.
Hello Miss Martini, I am already connected to your channel "The Strange". Came by to watch an interesting episode. Have a great day. 😘
Very interesting! Thanks!
Your welcome 🙏🏽 thank you for dropping by and watching an episode of our adventures. Have a great weekend.
Nice video gents! We were up in Beechworth in Jan had a sticky beak - very creepy place even in the day time! Your vid captured the mood very well 👍
Thanks Marc, glad you enjoyed the tour. We didn’t have time to do a ghost tour, perhaps next time. But walking around gives one a feel of the place, definitely. Thank you for watching and welcome to our channel.
Well Cowboy looks like you finally made it home LOL great video buddy
You cheeky bugger 🤣 Thank you so much for watching, glad you enjoyed the video. Grea to see you here.
I'd like to think they did some good for their patients, but there are always some really bad people. I'd like to think things have gotten better too. Great video guys, very thought provoking, 😊
Thank you for watching John. As time went by knowledge got better on how to treat people. Mental Health is a tricky subject to this day and deinstitutionalising has done no favours and our streets are full of homeless people, who forget to take there meds and are no better off. Some people do well and others fail. Very sad!
Neat history Jojo. Depending on who you ask I may meet the criteria for entry. Some say I'm crazy some say I'm different. LOL It is neat to see these old buildings. No thank you on the straight jacket that would definitely make me crazy! The cows fit right in, they must have mad cow disease. LOL. Take care.
You and me then Steve. Remember two signatures in and eight out and if were not mad going in, be sure that after some time we would be crazy! Glad you enjoyed the episode, have a great day and regards to Kristy. Cheers and stay safe.
The grounds of this asylum are very picturesque! The architecture of these asylums are also fascinating. It would be cool to gain entry, but at least you were able to get a glimpse through that open window. Like 42.
Thank you for stopping by and watching. They do do Ghost tours in the evening and some day tours. One gets the feeling of the place and the sense of history by walking the grounds. But yes it would be great to get another perspective by walking indoors. Hope you have a great day.
Well, I don't think you could have chosen better music for that piece. That patient room seen through the window was especially depressing. Interesting history behind the place, and it's too bad that there are so many places all over the world with such similar stories. Saw you in comments on another channel, and glad to have found your little space here. We'll be following along to see where else you have to show us!
Welcome to our channel and glad you enjoyed our episode on the lunatic asylum. Appreciated the comments and look forward to seeing your content. 🙏🏽👍🏽
Haha he had you speechless. That sounds about right, takes two to get you in but 8 to get you out. That room sure was tiny, it's neat you can check out places like these and understand and learn how those people were treated.
Ah yes, I had no idea that was coming 😂 . Those rooms were very small, probably fit a bed, a pan and a chair with a small table. Initially the treatments were horrific as time went on treatments and understanding improved. Glad you could join us, have a great week beck. Thank you for dropping by.
Commit Jojo... Never! Cool history 😎
Thank you 🙏🏽 Don’t worry Peter won’t be locking me up.....never 😂
LOL I (Jennifer) would have been committed too and I am definitely ok with that! 2 signatures to get in and 8 to get out...yikes. This location is absolutely mesmerizing (annnnd right down our alley!) Fascinating history and your choice of music was so hauntingly beautiful. Loved this!! Also, love your t-shirts Jo Jo and Peter!! Are they available for purchase? I would love to get one to wear on our livestream!!
Thats two of us committed Jennifer and Steve from Packs-a-lot.
Glad you enjoyed this episode. It seems to me that this is what the public enjoy, but it is a bit difficult to find these places in Victoria, Australia. Yes, I had a t/shirts made recently. There was a site I could of organised so that they could be on sale for the public, but hated the colours. So if you seriously would like one DM me on instagram. Thanks so much for watching. ❤️🤗😘
Really loveing your channel,way i was with covid,i thought i would end up in a asylum,hopefully things get better now,love your channel debs stay safe.
Glad to hear you are able to be out. We also had a hard lockdown of 3 months. Australia acted very quickly. Thank you for watching and welcome to our channel Deb, cheers ~ Jojo
@@CowboyJojosAdventures My pleasure ,you have a amazing channel,stay safe and have a lovely weekend.debs
@@debsmostexcellentadventure5353 thank you Debs, you too 🙏🏽🤗
It is sad the way people have treated each other through history. Glad to see our understanding of people's differences and actual mental health issues has improved over the years. This place has lovely architecture and grounds. But seeing that room through that window was kind of sad thinking about how people were isolated in rooms like that. Thanks for taking us along for some interesting history.
Glad you enjoyed the video, thank you for watching. Have a great weekend.
I originally posted a comment acknowledging the professional excellence that this channel achieves in the videos it presents. Asylum Ghost Tours has subsequently ridiculed some of my comments as “blah, blah, blah rubbish.” I don’t know if that places Asylum Ghost Tours in a particularly good place in terms of PR and if the words, “blah, blah, blah rubbish” promote the academic reputation of the historian who professes to run it.
I do my best David, thank you.
Your videos are in a league of their own! This one was haunting, beautiful, humorous and all tied together with clever timing/camera work. Only thing to add - exquisite choice of music.
Thank you David. I appreciate your support. Glad you enjoyed the episode.
Glad you also saw the humour David 👍🏽👍🏽😊
@@CowboyJojosAdventures Yep, the interaction between you guys is hilarious.
Haunted by ghosts! 👻👀😅
We agree 👍🏽
Thank you for watching 👍🏽🙏🏽🤠
Great work team - you nailed the music particularly! Sad past of a time some of us may have been inmates - that is sobering, and wonderful to se how far we have come as a society.
Love your work guys
Thank you Ralph, glad you enjoyed this episode. Stay tuned for the Beechworth Cemetery. Hope you had a great day. Cheers ~ Joseph.
Thanks for all the history of all the places you guys go to. Very interesting but sad. Have a great week!
Glad you enjoyed it Wade, thank you for watching. Have a great day buddy.
Good, I’m not the only one visiting Asylums for a trip. This one was pretty cool and it just closed recently in the 90’s. I do like your new format of showing the place before your intro. When someone clicks they know exactly what they are in for. Just don’t let Peter lock you in. I can be 1 of 8 trying to get you out 😂
Now I know I have a good mate. our blood is worth Bottling. Glad you enjoyed this episode. Thanks Carl.
I commented on this episode earlier today. Again, thank you so much for such a well executed video!
Your welcome David, glad you enjoyed this video. Next week I take you to the Beechworth Cemetery.
@@CowboyJojosAdventures I look forward to it Joseph 🙏
I find these places quite disturbing. It's amazing to think about how medieval medicine and medical practice was even into the 1960s. I dont trust medical practices even now, actually. Good video!
Now these people are all in the community and no one to care for them. Most of the people with psychiatric issues end up living on our streets. Those that are supposedly living some normality in their lives, forget to take their meds as they think they are okay and they are not. With noone to monitor them its only time before they end up in the wrong place or do something regrettable. Thank you for watching Cindy. Have a great weekend.
I think Peter had it right Jojo. Just you. Lol
Just little ol' me 😂 too funny.
nice place but a bit spooky to see it..i like following his journey ..
Glad you enjoyed it. Thank you for watching. have a great weekend.
Interesting buildings and history - very well done! I remember seeing your other video also... yes, thankfully we’ve made progress in helping people with mental health. Often the grounds at asylums are very well landscaped - but I don’t image the patients got to enjoy going outside. Were patients there until 1995? If you know?
Yes, patients were there until 1995. Now they wander the streets, some are housed and others choose to become homeless and sleep outside. The asylums got better as the years went by and these became safe havens for themselves as well as their daily medication was monitored. These days these people forget to take their medication as they are feeling okay, then a few can become aggressive. The Government has done no favours by deinstitutionalising these hospitals.
Thank you for watching Jennifer. My partner works for a Psychiatric Hospital. More for drug and depression.
@@CowboyJojosAdventures Ah, yes - I see. We have much of the same problem here. A lot of the burden falls on the families of people with mental health challenges. There’s not much housing help - only short term inpatient treatment for drug addiction.
I know some people that we could lock up there.
So do I. unfortunately they decommissioned all our Asylums.
What are these buildings used for today?
Some are now council offices. The Old Nurses quarters are now accomodation. One is now a Hotel. Another section runs tours. People are now living in some of the houses.
Thank you for watching Rod.
It wasn't opened in the 1850's. Opened in 1867 . History needs to be correct.
Thank you William the correct date is in the description box beneath the video. Thank you for watching and appreciated your comment.
Interesting place to visit not live 🤪
No I would not wished to have lived in this place Brian. It has a dark past.
@@CowboyJojosAdventures so true