It was rough rendered in white and is used now by La Trobe Uni Departments. Further east along Forest Views, a double storey plain light brick structure is evident. This was once Ward South 7 Larundel and in was used for hospitalisation of about 55 elderly women. This became offices and staff quarters on the first floor with a clinic for dispensing medical supplies and a billiard room below.
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Time 16 m. Next Prev. It sounds as though La Trobe University are now responsible for a lot of the site. You could try contacting them, perhaps? Try applying under the Freedom of Information Act, as Patricia suggests below. This is quite disturbing for me I was admitted in the early 70s and never knew what happend to my records or those who were ther. Some of the buildings which were mont Park are now owned by la trobe uni, at this site there was mont Park Larundel and the alcoholics anonymous building.
Hi , my mother was a patient t Larundal for over 20 years and was one of the last patients to leave, she then went to Mont Park and then onto a new mental health unit at StKilda. Hello Sue. Thanks for this comment, and I do appreciate your concerns. Personally, I think the local council should raise some kind of memorial on this site. With respect, I feel that your criticism would be better directed not here, but rather towards the people who are actually responsible for the site.
Just last night 2 friends and I went to visit Larundel for the first time. But we walked all the way around the front building, hearing some odd sounds every now and then, nothing too creepy. But when we got to a point behind the front building we stopped in our tracks.. One of my friends held up their phone and it read exactly It was very echoey and eerie.
Very surreal. Do you have any theories? Somewhere in these comments, one person suggested that the music was a prank being played from the nearby uni campus. But to hear it out there in the middle of a field at midnight is definitely pretty odd.
Thank you for the update, I guess the mystery remains unsolved! Yes, in December The front building and a back building still remains standing. My mates I went there all the time and I know of that music box seen it in the building and it would always go off at love the feeling of a ghost present. When they were explaining earlier apparently a little girl passsd away playing her music box and apparently ever since people have heard strange music noises.
Hopefully this helps you???? Lived around the corner. Man, we were shits……. Ahhh memories. Scary place back then, remember the faces behind the barred windows staring blankly back at you.
As well as the haunting sounds that went hand in hand with these places, especially in the dead of night. Good blog. That must have been a pretty powerful place to visit as a kid. I can only imagine. Gives its current state some context, too — more than just a ruin, it makes me wonder where all those patients ended up. Thanks a lot for this comment. I find this stuff fascinating, my friend wants to do her hsc photography assignment there, but we are unsure if we will make it in time…… Before it gets pulled down.
Yes, that would be fascinating. Thanks for sharing your visit with this place. Got no nerve to check this one but has the courage to check your post.
I drove around the grounds of Larundel when it was open in the s looked very scary never went inside. I worked near by at Janefield Centre Bundoora for the disabled for 10 years. I could tell lots of stories, I have started to write them and will continue, it was a very scary sad place. Are you sharing these stories online somewhere? Seems like a lot of people visiting this page had personal connections to the place — so I hope someone is able help you with this!
My dad, a WWII victim spent years here off an on. I was about years of age, when I went to visit him. I was shielded by the catering lady taking me to the kitchen for a biscuit and a milo.
Thank you for sharing this, Jill. Having only seen the place abandoned, I really appreciate hearing these little human stories from its time in operation. Alone in a room on my 4th venture taking routine photos I walked into a coldspot , I was suddenly overcome by intense fear for my life , evil , dread and I went to hell in my own mind , I saw nothing but I felt the full force of something I had disturbed in that room.
Sounds like a powerful experience. Did you ever go back after that? I went here the end of last year if you want to explore id be fast they are pulling down buildings and putting up housing theres not much left of the place.
She was given shock therapy. My dad will not talk about it. Noone in my family will talk about it. I feel sorry for my nanna who i never met as she died before i was born. She got put in larundel for supposedly having depression and being crazy and was put through shock therapy. I hate the way she was treated. If I can ask you a few questions please get in touch. I was a non-voluntary inmate of Larundel in It was a pretty terrible place but I did get out.
I was sane when I went in, slightly less so when I got out. I wonder if someone will write its history,. So often the history of these places is recorded through official records, rather than making use of first hand accounts.
Glad to hear you got out, anyway. Very interesting blog to read before attending the old asylum too. Glad you found the information here interesting, too! Thanks for commenting. But thats what i loved about this place, it would scare the crap out of ya, especially considering we were Brilliant comment, thanks for sharing this Joe!
I can only imagine how terrifying I would have found this place when I was 14… but I think if I lived nearby, I probably would have spent most nights there. So you heard the music box, then?
Interesting stuff. Does that sounds believable to you? You are wrong,A ward was for new arrivals, north 6 and north 8 was for violent offenders. You would be put on medication,when ok,you would be transfered to an open ward. Yes, I heard something about a renovation project going down at Larundel. If you want to see something similar, you might want to go and check out Aradale. I really wanted to go, but ran out of time in the end.
Hey darmen when you visit the aradale mental asylum are you allowed to do the same blog thing that you did on the laurundel mental asylum because this was very entertaining and interesting. Please do more excursions like this???? Hi Darmon, I am potentially making a documentary about Larundel and was wondering if I could possibly use your pictures as a part of it, as many of the great shots you have are not accessible anymore.
Thanks, Tessa Rigby. Hi Tess. Sounds like an interesting project — could you possibly send me an email about this? There were some signs of serious fire damage on the ground floor of the main building, but the place has obviously survived it — so who knows?
They may have demolished more of the buildings since my visit last year, however. I went in today! Sounds like you took the same route as me! Glad you managed to get in, hope you enjoyed the place. I live very close to the asylum, i have heard this music there before and got very intrigued. I studied the area for months, most people believe its the La trobe bells that people hear and say its ghosts afterwards, ive heard the bells there at midnight and its nothing like this but this music is in fact the tune of a local ice cream truck, this is what everyone has been hearing including me over the years for people to believe there is the ghost of a young girl haunting the place, and yes, this ice cream truck can even be heard very late at night.
Brilliant, thank you so much for posting this…. Correction noted, thanks! Also, cheers for the tip re. It was considered as a U. In the end the R. Part of the existing complex was also used as a R. In Larundel was given to the Department of Housing for emergency accommodation. The wards were hastily converted to flats.
By there were families living at Larundel. By November the last of the families had moved out and thirty male patients were transferred from Mont Park Hospital. Despite this large parts of the hospital remained unfinished and a low Government priority. It was not until that Larundel was officially opened as a mental hospital. Both sounded very scary.
From listening to adults speaking about the institution it seemed like no one would be "let out". Back then the words used were bandied around with no political correctness like today. None of the words used were offensive that's what was said, but had the reaction of shock. The stigma and judgement was similar to those in prison.
One just wouldn't have really known because mostly it was spread "by heresay" and for me I just as a kid listened and none I know of never entered through the gates. So there was always the thought questions What do they do there and so on. A very sad place. I'm glad to hear the building is being renovated to breathe new life into it for better purposes.
Lou, Desy and dcoop,I'm so sorry to hear about your plight I couldn't imagine living there for a day let alone for weeks, months or years. Lou, thank you for your input to share your side of living there. So sad and I'm sure quite traumatic too. Have you thought of writing a book about your stay there? Plus adding how you have coped since because I feel your story to be quite inspiring. You write very well, Lou. Natasha thanks for the heads up for better or worse.
The reason this place is patrolled is not because of risk of vandalism There is asbestos everywhere! The whole place is covered in it. That may or maybe the reason its taking so long to develope the site. Because they have to be so careful pulling it down. Councils bury asbestos in landfill because its so risky to breakdown and its very expensive to remove. Cant risk the dust blowing around either especially if there is houses near by or within distance of harming people.
So if u dont want to die of asbestos inhalation dont go anywhere near this place for ur own health. This is very serious! There should be signs warning people of the risks there. I worked at Larundel Psychiatric Hospital during the 's and early 90's and never once heard it referred to as a Mental Asylum.
It was a hospital for those in need of psychiatric care so of course it wasn't a holiday camp but it also wasn't the nightmare of horrors some have made it out to be, certainly not in the eight years i was there.
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