Chilling snapshots show the vague outline of a 'female patient' on the roof of the Sunbury Lunatic Asylum in Victoria. The image was captured during a night tour of the notorious asylum ...

The Sunbury Lunatic Asylum was among several institutions, including Ararat, Beechworth, Yarra Bend and Kew, to house thousands of patients during and after the gold rush. It took just two ...

A forthcoming development will see a wing of the heritage-listed Sunbury Lunatic Asylum (the former Female Refractory) transformed into an arts precinct where local artists, potters and ...

The grounds around Sunbury’s former mental asylum are now part of the Jacksons Creek housing estate plans drawn up by the Victorian Planning Authority in 2018. The Eynesbury Homestead ...

In 1945, Maraquita Sargeant, a mother of five young children, was admitted against her will to Sunbury Mental Asylum in Australia. Her youngest child, Tony, has spent the last 50 years of his life ...

A GRIM, dark and little-understood part of Sunbury’s history can now be relived, with walking tours of the town’s old asylum relaunched after a two-year hiatus. The sprawling Jacksons Hill ...

The grand Victorian building on Jackson Hill has had many names but is still known locally as the Sunbury Asylum. In 1945 Maraquita Sargeant was committed here at the request of her husband ...