Welcome to Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Built in 1900, Bundoora Homestead is a magnificent Queen Anne style Federation mansion operating as a historic house, art gallery and café, registered by Heritage Victoria and certified by the National Trust. Bundoora Homestead Art Centre is the public art gallery for the City of Darebin hosting contemporary visual arts and craft exhibitions, a public education program including artist talks, workshops and events, and the biennial Darebin Art Prize.
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Coming Home
From 1920 until 1993, Bundoora Homestead Art Centre operated first as Bundoora Convalescence Farm and then as Bundoora Repatriation Hospital.
For more than seventy years, it was home to hundreds of returned servicemen. These men were not only physically damaged by their wartime experiences, their mental health was also dramatically affected. Despite the severe trauma, sometimes it took years or decades for the conditions to emerge.
For some servicemen, this meant being unable to sleep, hold down a job, maintain successful relationships or stay in one place, whilst others experienced a range of debilitating symptoms including delusions and psychosis. While these men tried to cope as best they could, they were rarely encouraged to talk openly about what they had seen or done. The experience of war haunted their lives and the lives of their families as they attempted to resume civilian life.
At this time, there was little understanding around trauma and mental health. For some returned servicemen and their families, it was important that their mental illness was acknowledged as being a consequence of their war service. This was not only due to social stigma associated with mental illness generally, but also because war pensions provided families with greater financial security.
This is as much the story of the Bundoora Repatriation Hospital as it is the story of a mother and daughter uncovering the history of the man who was their father and grandfather respectively. That man was Wilfred Collinson, who was just 19 when he enlisted in the AIF. He fought in Gallipoli and on the Western Front, saw out the duration of the war and returned home in 1919. He gained employment with the Victorian Railways and met and married Carline Aminde. The couple went on to have four children. By 1937, Wilfred Collinson’s mental state had deteriorated and he would go on to spend the remainder of his life – more than 35 years – as a patient at Bundoora.
We know so little about the lives and stories of men like Wilfred, the people who cared for them, the people who loved them and the people they left behind. For the most part the voices of the men themselves are missing from their own narrative and we can only interpret their experiences through the words of authorities and their loved ones.
Directed and Edited by Joel Checkley and Produced by Belinda Ensor for Museums Australia (Victoria), 2015.
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There are reports of the site being haunted. People while locking up have heard of foot steps and door shutting. Even being sightings of ghosts in hallways and on stairs. This site was at a time for the mentally ill and during world war one there was a lot of people treated here.
Alexander ‘Alec’ John Robb | Bundoora Homestead Heritage Film Series
Alexander ‘Alec’ John Robb was a patient at Bundoora Repatriation Hospital periodically for 35 years. After serving in WWI and surviving the ANZAC landing at Gallipoli, he spent time recovering in hospital in the South of England. Whilst there he met Marjorie, who he married in 1918. After returning to Australia Alec was hospitalised dozens of times before making a strong and rapid recovery in 1954. His daughter Marjorie has suggested that her father may have been successfully treated with lithium under the care of Dr John Cade. After 1954 Alec was able to live with his family in the community and never returned to the Hospital.
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Wilfred Collinson | Bundoora Homestead Heritage Film Series
Wilfred Collinson served in WWI after enlisting in 1914 when he was just 19 years old. After the war, he returned to Melbourne and married Carline Aminde. Neither Wilfred or Carline could foresee that the trauma from his war experience would lead Wilfred to Bundoora Repatriation Hospital, where he would live for 35 years until his death in 1972.
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Dr John Cade | Bundoora Homestead Heritage Film Series
Dr John Cade AO began his tenure at Bundoora Repatriation Mental Hospital in 1939 as a medical officer. He enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) in July 1940 and was assigned to the 2/9 Field Ambulance. When Singapore fell to the Japanese in 1942, Dr Cade, along with thousands of other Allied troops, became a prisoner-of-war at Changi camp until the end of the war.
On his return to Australia, Dr Cade resumed his position at Bundoora and in 1947 was promoted to senior medical officer. He strongly believed that some mental illnesses were caused by metabolic disturbance and set about testing his theory in a disused kitchen of an old ward that served as his research laboratory. The results of Dr Cade’s subsequent discovery of the calming effects produced by lithium carbonate in treating mental illness were presented in a paper entitled, Lithium salts in the treatment of psychotic excitement, published in the Medical Journal of Australia (1949).
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A huge thanks to all locals and businesses who took part in making this video.
Featuring and with special thanks to: SPAN Community House, and 'The Cameronettes of the Cameron Cricket Club; and great local businesses - Kustom burgers, Rhubarb Rhubarb Organics, Gringo Paella, Folino's Quality Meats, Sargents Cakes, A1 Bakery, Two Fat Monks, Wesley Anne, Northcote Social Club, Welcome To Thornbury, The Warehouse Pizzeria, TRUMPY, Tahina Bar, and Pizza Meine Liebe.
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