#sydney red brick

Small 1930’s era art deco apartment building, four units only in “Sydney Red Brick”. Petersham.

A nod to the Ol’ Queenie’s Jubilee from one of the last outposts of Empire. There he is. Up there. On the hospital. Who? Albert, HRH the Prince Consort (from 1840-61).

This here’s the Albert Pavilion to match the reverse mirror image Victoria Pavilion (1901-03), designed by NSW Govt. Architect, Walter Liberty Vernon, in the “classical Federation-style”. Mansfield Bros. contracting in Sydney Sandstone and Red Brick. Originally built to commemorate the death of Queen Victoria (1901), it was the new “men’s wing” of the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital (RPA), on the north side of the original building established in 1882. Women were treated in the Victoria wing to the south. This pavilion also cared for thousands of wounded soldiers from both World Wars, and is still used as regular hospital wards today. The statute of Albert and a matching one of Victoria are both nine foot tall, made of hammered copper by sculptor James White at his nearby Annandale workshop. The RPA is now one of the oldest, largest and most prestigious public hospitals in the land. Camperdown.