Aerial views.
A small number of aerial photographs of the Maitland Hospital and its surroundings have been located. Dating from the late 1930s to the 1980s, they provide a visual commentary on the changes on the hospital site as new buildings and facilities were squeezed into spaces, and buildings of different eras linked. They also provide a sense of the changes in the hospital’s immediate neighbourhood.
Aerial view, late 1930s/early 1940s.
(Maitland and District Historical Society 2014_3033c)
Front right is the ‘intermediate’ and ‘private’ ward building that was completed in 1939. This, along with the absence of the entrance that, from 1942, linked the 1849 building to the 1930s complex, suggests the photograph was taken in the late 1930s/early 1940s.
Aerial view looking towards the hospital with the Long Bridge in the foreground, late 1930s/early 1940s.
(Maitland and District Historical Society 2014-3033d)
Aerial view, 1950s.
(Maitland City Library - Picture Maitland)
The Maitland Saleyards are front and centre of the photograph.
Aerial view towards the Mt Pleasant floodplain, 1950s.
(Maitland Hospital Collection 165.123)
Front left is the edge of the Maitland Saleyards next to the Family Hotel. On the opposite side of the road, on the left is the first nurses’ home with the 1930s complex of buildings behind it and to its right. The original 1840s building (lighter in colour) sits in front with the 1905 building behind it and, to the right and partly hidden by the plane supports, the 1916 isolation ward.
Aerial view, 1975.
(Maitland Hospital Collection 165.124)
Front cover of the annual report with an aerial view of the middle section of the hospital, 1982.
(Newcastle Region Library)