76 Health & History, 2015. 17/2 Book Reviews Roslyn Burge, Callan Park: Compassion and Conflict in the Asylum (Sydney: Friends of Callan Park, 2015). ISBN 978-0-9943688-0-5 (HC). 32pp. What is Callan Park? Callan Park is an area of 61 hectares in the Leichhardt municipality of Inner West Sydney, between Lilyfield and Rozelle. In 1839, crown solicitor and police magistrate, John Ryan Brenan, made a series of purchases to acquire the Callan Park land, which he named the Garry Owen Estate: Brenan built a house on the land overlooking the Parramatta River which he named Garry Owen House, and this was a local centre for social life until his bankruptcy in 1864. The land was then purchased by a Sydney businessman, John Gorton, who renamed the property Callan Park, after the Callan River in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. The entire area was purchased by the colonial government and became Callan Park Lunatic Asylum in 1874. The main complex was completed in 1885, the two major and adjoining areas being known as Callan Park and Broughton Hall. Broughton Hall functioned as the No. 13 Auxiliary Military Hospital during World War I and in 1920 gave its name to the first voluntary psychiatric clinic in the nation. Callan Park and Broughton Hall were amalgamated in 1976 to form the Rozelle Hospital, and this hospital itself was closed on April 30, 2008. Now the former Rozelle Hospital site, known as Callan Park, is subject to the Callan Park (Special Provisions) Act 2002 and is owned by NSW Health. The Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority previously advised the state government on the future of the site but since June 2015 responsibility for the administration of Callan Park has been transferred to the state minister for the Environment. Roslyn Burge is a professional historian who has worked at the Australian Centre for Public History at UTS as a team member on oral history projects, and also, has worked independently with oral history projects for government, corporate, and individual clients. Few communities across Australia have embraced and lived so closely with two psychiatric clinics in their midst for more than 134 years; Roslyn Burge attests that the local community consistently and overwhelmingly supports the establishment of voluntary community mental health services at Callan Park. Health & History ● 17/2 ● 2015 77 History Week is the annual celebration of history across NSW and is presented by the History Council of NSW. Almost every year since 1999 the ‘Friends of Callan Park’ have presented an event for History Week and/or the National Trust’s Heritage Festival as a means of educating the public about some of the issues pertinent not only to Callan Park and mental health services but also to contribute to the public discussion about the state of heritage and the management of institutional cultural landscapes. The History Week theme in 2010 was ‘Faces in the Street’: the friends of Callan Park interpreted this as ‘Faces in the Park’, and utilising oral history interviews and community contributions, an outdoor poster exhibition was launched across the landscape of Callan Park and Broughton Hall. The poster panels were colour-coded according to category: Patients, Residents, Staff, Community, ‘Conflict’, and ‘Memorials and Modernism’. This small publication faithfully follows the above categories in presenting its account of Callan Park and what has occurred there in the past, the feelings of the local community towards it, and the very real concern of the entire community that this unique property will simply become part of the sprawling Sydney suburban ‘landscape’. Magnificent colour photographs detail the unique geography and some fine nineteenth-century architecture; the text informs us that ‘Callan Park and Broughton Hall have more tree species than New York’s Central Park’. The sections of the book devoted to patients and their families and the residents, including farm managers, administrators, matron, and doctors, provide fascinating and most readable insights into this institution, such as the fact that Callan Park was the only government farm to make a profit! The section devoted to conflict and rallying the community is both poignant and powerful; four pages of colour photographs graphically illustrate the community’s involvement with rallies and political campaigns in...