The Adelaide Kids’ Shelter opened in North Adelaide in 1976. Run by a community based committee, the shelter provided accommodation mainly for up to five adolescent girls aged between 12 and 18. It took in a small number of boys. At the end of 1982 the shelter relocated to Kilkenny. The exact closing date for…
The Norwood Youth Shelter was the new name for the Contact and Exchange Centre when it moved to Norwood in 1978. The independently run shelter provided support and long term accommodation for young people coming out of institutional care. Records suggest that the Shelter closed in the 1980s. The Norwood Youth Shelter was the new…
The Contact and Exchange Centre opened in November 1975 at Byron Place in Adelaide. It was established and run by an independent group of social workers and social work students from the South Australian Institute of Technology. It initially provided short term accommodation for homeless young people.. The Centre moved to Norwood in 1978 and…
Joyce Shultz House was established by the Red Cross. Along with Dunant House it operated as temporary youth housing and was operating in the mid 1980s. The location and opening and closing dates for Joyce Shultz House are currently unknown.
Cabra Dominican Convent opened in Adelaide in 1868 as a day and boarding school. Run by the Dominican Sisters it was initially staffed by nine sisters who supervised 37 boarders. In 1886 the school moved to a new site in Goodwood. By 1928 numbers of boarders had grown to 93 with 232 day students. In…
The Gurney Street Legacy Hostels were established by Legacy in Gurney Street, Dulwich in 1964. The two cottages were purchased by Legacy to provide temporary accommodation for Legacy wards after the closure of Waverley House. The Gurney Street Legacy Hostels only operated for a few years due to general changes in the field of residential…
The Elizabeth Grace Community Unit was established by the government in North Adelaide in 1975. It was run as an non-secure open hostel for girls from Vaughan House who were working in the community. The hostel had originally been created as a part of Vaughan House as an open hostel section called the Elizabeth Grace…
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) was opened in 1954. It operated as a maternity hospital until 1959. In 2009 it was a 327 bed acute care teaching hospital that provided inpatient, outpatient, emergency and mental health services to the population of Adelaide’s western suburbs. It was still operating in 2014.
The Manunka Mission was established by Mrs Janet Matthews in 1901 on the Murray River near Mannum. It operated as a Mission and a government ration station. A day school operated at the Mission and a dormitory was planned. In 1909 there were 40-50 Aboriginal people living at the Mission. Manunka Mission closed in 1916….
The Finniss Springs Mission was established by the United Aborigines’ Mission (UAM) north west of Marree, in 1939. It operated as a Mission, a Mission school and a government ration station. A dormitory for Aboriginal children whose parents worked away from the Mission was operating by 1944. Approximately 75 people resided at the Mission in…
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