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The morgue and refrigeration room, Coroner's Court, Glebe 2020

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Anders, Simon (Images for Business)

Simon Anders is a photographer with Australian commercial photo imaging company Images for Business.

Health Infrastructure

Arm of NSW Health that oversees the planning, design, procurement and construction of health capital works in NSW, bringing together experts in health planning, architecture, engineering, building, town planning, construction, surveying, assets, communications and change management.

Glebe Coroner's Court

The former NSW State Coroner’s Court and Morgue building on Parramatta Road, Glebe, functioned as the centre of coronial justice in the state for 48 years, and tens of thousands of Sydney’s unexplained deaths, accidents, fires, explosions and missing persons were investigated there. The building housing two coroner’s courts and offices on the top floor and the morgue, refrigeration room and laboratory on the bottom floor, and from 1971 the Department of Forensic Medicine since 1971. In December 2018 it was replaced by a new facility in Lidcombe.

Death and Dying

Medical Science

Courts and judicial system

NSW State Coroner's Court and Morgue, Glebe

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Court complex at 44–46 Parramatta Road, Glebe that functioned as the centre of coronial justice in New South Wales for 48 years. The building housed two coroner’s courts, and offices, on the top floor, and the morgue, cool room and laboratory on the ground floor. The Department of Forensic Medicine was also housed in the building after 1971. In 2018 the Coroner and the Department of Forensic Medicine both moved to new purpose built premises at Lidcombe.

Glebe Estate

Land grant of 1790 made to the Anglican church for the maintenance of church and school. The farms were subsequently subdivided and leased as building lots, St Phillips in 1842 and Bishopthorpe in 1856. When leases expired, all the occupants became tenants of the Church of England. As the houses deteriorated a radical plan for renewal was hatched and the estate was purchased by the Commonwealth in 1974 before transfer to the New South Wales government.

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Forest Lodge

Inner city residential suburb between Glebe and Camperdown. It is named for the 1836 house of Ambrose Foss, chemist and druggist.

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