Sydney Harbour Bridge War Memorial

This afternoon we walked to Callan Park, a nineteenth-century former asylum with beautiful sandstone buildings and extensive grounds on Iron Cove Bay. The war memorial and ornamental pond in the grounds were designed by Douglas Grant, an Aboriginal returned soldier and draughtsman, in 1931, and built by patients. Coincidentally, my grandmother taught arts and crafts to shell-shocked soldiers here, in the 1920s. Many of the buildings are terribly dilapidated, as is the war memorial. 

The extra is a sunshine wattle in White’s Creek Reserve.

Thanks for hosting Marlieske.