Cottage colouds the bakery occupies the rear

the bakery occupies the rear

Cleaning Flotation at Ashio

each step layered with dust and debris from decades of disuse

from around 1994 until the city's fiscal collapse forced closure in 2006

Cottage colouds the bakery occupies the rearA timber cottage sits at the edge of the overgrown grounds of the Queen Victoria Sanitorium, its weathered walls and collapsing roof marking decades of disuse since the facility closed in May 1999. The sanitorium operated for 96 years on Kings Tableland, first as a tuberculosis sanatorium from 1903, later as a hospital for the aged and chronically ill. Part of the Queen Victoria Sanitorium series.