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New revamped education tab

July 19, 2013 No Comments

Teaching at Willow Court We have revamped the education tab now for easier student and teacher access, lesson plans, handouts. student resources and films all add to the education that Willow Court and it’s history can provide to people who are studying in the community services, medical and allied health industries.

This is the past informing the future through the present, allowing student to understand the methods and standards of care Tasmanian’s demanded for People living with a disabilities and/or Mental Heath issues, who called Willow Court home.

Along with lots of open source resources this website can assist in informing students of the 173 years of history with audio and video tours, articles, maps and photos throughout time. We can also arrange guided tour with qualified Educators and visiting Guest Speakers. All tour guides have a long history of the site and it’s social and physical history.

Education at Willow Court, media release

(Willow Court Heritage Precinct is currently closed during restoration) Restoration Page

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New look articles page

July 9, 2013 No Comments

If you have any documents that would interest our members and you would like to share them please send us a message through the “contact us” tab Click Here . Here is the new look page with links to articles, reports, letters and publications about our Willow Court.

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Alan Pearson and Lew Rice

July 9, 2013 3 Comments

Alan Pearson who was the Chairman of the RDH Board for many years until closure of the site in 2001, and Lew Rice, well known former employee of RDH and talented saxophone player have passed away. Lew Rice died on Friday, he was in charge of C Ward for many years and both men will be a big loss for the knowledge and social heritage of Willow Court and Royal Derwent Hospital. We send our condolences to the families.

Monochrome photograph of the XL Orchestra. Lew Rice (alto sax & clarinet), Max Whittaker (sax) Vera Maxfield (piano), Jock Morison (violin), Geoff Rice (drums),

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Willow Court Media Release

July 2, 2013 No Comments

The Derwent Valley Council has put a media release up on their website well after the community already knew about it nearly two weeks earlier. It would appear that the Council is better at leaking news and not taking the opportunity to be the first to announce to the community the positive stories of Willow Court’s restoration progress. In the latest news from Councillor Damian Bester own web blog, which contained the media release over a week earlier, he suggests that Mercury Columnist, Leo Schofield needs to get the facts right before reporting in the Mercury Newspaper about Willow Court. Both men are employed by the Mercury Newspaper. Social media comments on New Norfolk Facebook groups are condemning Leo Schofield for his critical reflections of The Valley, it’s people and it’s lack of progress over the last decade with Willow Court. The media release offers little new information however the reply on Cr. Damian Bester web-blog will help secure public notoriety before the next local election due in 2014.

Official Media Release

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100,000 HITS!!! Thank you

June 27, 2013 No Comments

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Power to the Avenue

June 11, 2013 No Comments

Aurora’s activities today in the Avenue are working towards Willow Court having a good supply of electric power along with others in the Avenue, by the photos this is very close to finishing. The last photo shows a new power pole with a transformer in front of Bronte Ward ready and waiting to be connected. Connection will allow better security for the Historic Precinct of The Barracks, C & A Wards and Bronte Ward. Local businesses on the east side of George Street went without power for most of the day to cater for this connection, costing over $75,000.

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Catherine

June 9, 2013 No Comments

A card from Willow Court (The Hospital for the Insane) tells of Catherine, her life from admission to death, what happened to Catherine, who was she? It seems strange to only have a card that tells so little for a person. Was Catherine a forgotten person?

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Tasmanian Heritage Council Approved New Shopping Centre next to Willow Court

May 24, 2013 No Comments

Council approved a Supermarket Development on the old oval precinct area and the Tasmanian Heritage Council also approved the plans at its February meeting, subject to several conditions including a stipulation that the building must be a natural stone or brickwork colour similar to the lime-wash finishes found on the earliest buildings at Willow Court. New Norfolk News Article

This will help the new complex be in sympathy with it’s heritage neighbours it is believed. This is something that planners will only have one chance at getting right and we are hopeful that this has had enough thought.

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ABC Broadcast; Whose heritage is worth saving in Tasmania?

May 23, 2013 No Comments

Is Tasmania preserving the right things and whose heritage is worth saving anyway?

This is ABC’s Louise Saunders and Sarah Gillman interview of a mixed group of Tasmanians about our Heritage and what is worth saving and at the expense of what other heritage sites? She starts with the question, what is Heritage?

ABC Radio Tasmania Heritage Audio 44 minutes.

A general discussion about Heritage within Tasmania with guest speakers Paul Johnston, Architect; Warwick Oakman, architectural historian and member of the National Trust; Briony Kidd, Hobart-based director and playwright who was involved with the Save 10 Murray Street campaign; Dr Dianne Snowden, chair of the Tasmanian Heritage Council; Aaron Everett, Aboriginal Heritage Officer with the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre and Adrian Kelly, President of the Tasmanian Real Estate Institute.

Dianne Snowden is an ex-officio member of the Willow Court Conservation Committee as well as being the chair of the Tasmanian Heritage Council.

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Tunnel discussed in Agreement 1941

May 19, 2013 No Comments

Taken from an agreement between Local Council and the Minister for Lands and Works this document talks about joining Lachlan Park to the new New Norfolk Sewerage system and abandoning the old system which runs under Burnett Street.

“AN AGREEMENT made the 18th day of June one thousand nine hundred and forty-one between THE HONOURABLE THOMAS HENRY DAVIES being and as the Minister for Lands and Works for the time being in the State of Tasmania (hereinafter called “the Minister”) of the one part and THE WARDEN COUNCILLORS AND ELECTORS OF THE MUNICIPALITY OF NEW NORFOLK (hereinafter called” the council”) of the other part WHEREAS for many years past the sewage from Lachlan Park Hospital (hereinafter called “the hospital”) at New Norfolk in Tasmania owned and controlled and managed by the Crown under the Mental Diseases Hospital Act 1858 has flowed through a drain beneath Burnett-street (hereinafter called “the drain”) and has been emptied into the River Derwent at New Norfolk aforesaid AND WHEREAS the council has recently undertaken the construction of a modern sewerage scheme for the Town of New Norfolk and it is desirable for reasons of health and sanitation that the sewage from the hospital be emptied into the sewers so to be constructed by the council and that the use of the drain for the passage of sewage be for ever afterwards abandoned”

Government agreement, document (full) 1941

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