Willow Court Project

**The 2015 Advanced Archaeology Field School crossed a (large) number of things off the ‘to do’ list. With geophysicist Kelsey Lowe from the University of Queensland, students surveyed almost all of the open areas around the Willow Court buildings (including the Carlton Yard, the southern Allonah yard, the rear of

**Heather Burke and the archaeology students from Flinders University will be returning next week 8-12th February. ** The students will be finishing off the cataloging (the other material they didn’t get to last year), doing a complete and detailed survey plan of the site and also doing geophysics in various

I stumbled across a song written about Ward 4 on youtube. It was written and performed by Kris McIntosh. Kris stated that he moved to Hobart from Brisbane 12 months ago and when visiting New Norfolk he stumbled across Willow Court. Kris said that  he was amazed with the history

Some big news coming out of the Willow Court area Agrarian kitchen and the Eleventh Order brewery have been given the green light to enter into lease negotiations with council in the Bronte building in Willow Court. Sounds like a really great concept. It was always my dream to have

Hope former patients of Tasmania’s Willow Court psychiatric unit will get parliamentary apology http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-12-09/hope-tasmanian-psychiatric-patients-get-a-parliament-apology/7011890 There are hopes former patients of a notorious Tasmanian psychiatric hospital will receive a parliamentary apology next year. It has been 15 years since the closure of