Rear Residence Topdown keep out Peeling paint and faded colour

Peeling paint and faded colour mark an abandoned ward inside the Queen Victoria Sanitorium

which served the district as a post office from 1 November 1869 until 1945

a cypress standing behind

The scratch is the only mark here anyone chose to leave

Once part of a complex designed to house and treat hundreds of patients

Rear Residence Topdown keep out Peeling paint and faded colourThe rear residence of Big Hill Post Office, seen from above, its roof collapsed and interior rooms open to the sky. The building is part of a two structure complex that served the Big Hill community from 1 November 1869 until 1945. Encroaching vegetation and weathered timber walls record the slow work of seven decades of abandonment. Part of the Big Hill Post Office series.