RPA Walking Tour - Sydney South West Area Health Service

Stop 1.......Outside the building there was a high paling fencewith wooden gates leading to a carriageway on thesouthern end with gaslight lamps at the entranceand the porter’s lodge on the right. The woodenfence was replaced by a stone wall in the 1890sand then by a small dwarf wall with stone posts.The front gardens have always been a source ofpride for the Hospital. The tall palms that grew fromseeds brought back by Corporal Sandy Wilsonfrom the South African War have long since gonebut other trees and shrubs had taken their place.(However, one of the seeds is thought to have beenplanted at the bottom of Johns Hopkins Drive andthe palm is still standing.)The front vestibule has two granite stones: on theright the foundation stone and on the left a stonereading, “and now abideth, Faith, Hope and Charitythese three but the greatest of these is Charity”.A translation of the foundation stone is available inthe Museum.5The Administration Block