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Cheer Up Hut, Adelaide

Cheer Up Hut, Adelaide

View of the Cheer Up Hut in Adelaide with its Peterborough wing, identified on the back of the card as 'Peterborough Wing of C-U-H'. Additional writing on the back (which appears to be a contemporary account of loans made to servicemen) reads: '15/10 (fare to Pinnaroo / Pte C.W.Watkins / 3/6 Lieut Cpl Williams / 4/- = Pt Tucker / 2d Extra postage / 2/9 fare lent Watson / [bracketed with] Mather / 3/- Lieut Lewis / 10/- fare to Brinkworth /(O'Rielly / 1/3 Willsden'. The Cheer Up Hut stood on the site of the Festival Theatre in Elder Park.

Start of building the Cheer Up Hut

Start of building the Cheer Up Hut

Rather fuzzy view of a number of men and one women standing in a cleared piece of land. [On back of photograph] 'Fixing first jarrah post for the Cheer Up Hut on / Railways Land at rear of the City Baths / Adelaide 1915. Hut opened in October 1915. / Architect Mr H J Henderson Secretary of the / Adelaide Club. / After World War I the Hut was taken over by the / Railways Institute. In 1939 it was / requisitioned & again used until 1947 / for the entertainment of all allied / servicemen and merchant navy.'

Cheer Up Hut

Cheer Up Hut

[General description] Men playing billiards in the Billiard Room at the Cheer Up Hut.See B 5504 for a brief description of the Cheer Up Society. [On back of photograph] 'Cheer Up Hut, Adelaide / December 24th, 1919'.

Supplies for the Cheer Up Hut

Supplies for the Cheer Up Hut

CHEER UP HUT: Four women volunteers and a soldier sorting food supplies at the Cheer Up hut; third from the left: Lorna Hughes; 4th from the left: Jean Taylor.

Volunteer helpers outside the Cheer-Up Hut

Volunteer helpers outside the Cheer-Up Hut

CHEER UP HUT: Five volunteer helpers outside the Cheer-Up Hut; they are Chris Christianson; Ethel Kempster; L. Hughes; Ella Cole and Roz Gamlin, order not known.

Sailors at the Cheer Up Hut

Sailors at the Cheer Up Hut

CHEER UP HUT: : Sailors enjoying a meal at the Cheer Up Hut.

Volunteer helpers outside the Cheer-Up Hut

Volunteer helpers outside the Cheer-Up Hut

CHEER UP HUT: A group of volunteer helpers outside the Cheer-Up Hut; present are Ella Cole; Bertha Wildy; D. Farrow; Marjorie Morphett; Chris Christianson; Roz Gamlin; Bessie Sanders; E. Morley; J. Sanders; Enid Wallis; L.H. Pryzibilla; M. Gordon; Marjorie Raggatt; Kath Phillips; L. Hannaford; Gertie B. Dixon; Barbara E. Perriman; Isla Crump and Joan Reeves, order not known.

Cheer-Up Hut concert party

Cheer-Up Hut concert party

CHEER-UP HUT: Members of the Cheer Up Hut concert party: a composite view.

Cheer Up Hut

Cheer Up Hut

Cheer Up Hut erected during the 1914-18 War for the use of soldiers, 22nd October 1924. The west of the Hut is 132 yards west of King William Road; the east end is 88 yards west of King William Road. The Cheer Up Society was founded by Alexandrina Seager to support the soldiers fighting in World War I and II. During WWII the huts were used for everyday and social functions.

Women volunteers at the Cheer-up Hut

Women volunteers at the Cheer-up Hut

CHEER-UP-HUT: Women volunteers at the Peterborough(?) Cheer-up Hut - 'Girls going up to join procession. Red Cross Drive Sept 12. They march as a cross'.

Cheer-Up Hut, Adelaide

Cheer-Up Hut, Adelaide

CHEER-UP HUT: A dormitory at the Cheer-Up Hut with a nurse making up a bed; view 2.

Cheer Up Hut

Cheer Up Hut

[General description] The South Australian Cheer-Up Society was founded by Alexandrina Seager, its object being to support the soldiers in the First and Second World Wars and to bring them into contact with the 'highest type of womanhood'. This hut was near the Adelaide Railway Station and had a hostel and canteen. It was funded from various charitable institutions. The room shown here is comfortably furnished with armchairs, chairs and tables and a piano. [On back of photograph] 'Peterborough Wing / Cheer Up Hut, Adelaide / December 24 th., 1919'.

Nurses outside the Cheer Up Hut

Nurses outside the Cheer Up Hut

CHEER UP HUT: A group of nurses and an army officer outside the Cheer Up Hut.

Guests at the closing down of the Cheer-Up Hut

Guests at the closing down of the Cheer-Up Hut

CHEER-UP HUT: Guests present at the closing down of the Cheer-Up Hut on Saturday, 27th April 1946; centre of front row is Viscountess Edwina Mountbatten and Lt. Gen. Sir Charles Norrie, Governor of S.A.

Cheer-Up Hut in Adelaide

Cheer-Up Hut in Adelaide

CHEER-UP HUT: A dormitory at the Cheer-Up Hut.

Cheer Up Hut

Cheer Up Hut

[General description] This large room has tables laid for a meal with 'helpers' (ladies in long white dresses including a nun-like veil) standing by. Photographs of dignitaries line the walls and there is a stage draped with an Australian flag. On the stage is a piano and a phonograph. See B 5504 for a brief description of the Cheer Up Society. [On back of photograph] 'Cheer Up Hut, Adelaide / 18th December 1919'.

Cheer Up Hut

Cheer Up Hut

[General description] This long narrow room is lined with chairs and has tables down the centre. See B 5504 for a brief description of the Cheer Up Society. [On back of photograph] 'South balcony L.W. / Cheer Up Hut Adelaide / December 18th, 1919'.

Cheer Up Hut

Cheer Up Hut

[General description] This spartan room, named the 'Duncan Rest Room' contains two single beds and two chairs. Perhaps one of the Society members made the matching bed covers? See B 5504 for a brief description of the Cheer Up Society. [On back of photograph] 'Cheer Up Hut, Adelaide / December 24, 1919'.

Group of men outside the Cheer Up Hut, Adelaide, South Australia

Group of men outside the Cheer Up Hut, Adelaide, South Australia

A group of men photographed at the entrance to the Cheer Up Hut in Adelaide, South Australia. Three of the men are in army uniform, two of these men are holding bugles. Names have not been provided.

Cheer Up Hut

Cheer Up Hut

Cheer Up Hut, erected during the 1914-18 War for the use of soldiers. West end of Hut is 132 yards west of King William Road, the east side is 88 yards west of King William Road.

The Cheer Up Hut

The Cheer Up Hut

The Cheer Up Hut, Adelaide, 19 th May 1916.

Cheer Up Hut

Cheer Up Hut

French soldiers at the Cheer Up Hut.

Cheer Up Hut

Cheer Up Hut

Parade of solders outside the Cheer up hut.

Party at the Cheer Up Hut

Party at the Cheer Up Hut

A party gathering thought to be at the Cheer Up Hut.

Reunion Dinner at the Cheer-Up Hut

Reunion Dinner at the Cheer-Up Hut

A large group of men seated at tables in the decorated hall of the Cheer-Up Hut, with women standing along to the sides.

Reunion Dinner at the Cheer-Up Hut

Reunion Dinner at the Cheer-Up Hut

A large group of men seated at tables in the decorated hall of the Cheer-Up Hut, with women standing along to the sides.

New Zealand soldiers at the Hut

New Zealand soldiers at the Hut

'New Zealand Soldiers at the Hut 1916' [from back of photograph] showing a large number of men in uniform posing in front of the Cheer up Hut in Adelaide; there are two women in the front row and a number of people are looking out from the second floor window where three different flags are hanging.

The Burra Hall

The Burra Hall

Bird's eye view of the interior of the Burra Hall, the main hall of the Cheer Up Hut in Adelaide, set up with tables for dining and with five Cheer Up Society workers standing beside one. There is a piano and phonograph on the stage which is draped with the Australian flag and the Union Jack, and there are photographs of servicemen around the hall. [On the back of photograph] 'The Cheer Up Hut / World War I / The Burra Hall / about 1918 / Ready for daily Service and ex-Servicemen's "free" meals (guests of the Society - through generosity of the Public & Voluntary / helpers.) Photo in panels of men who made the supreme sacrifice'.

Anzac Arch, Adelaide

Anzac Arch, Adelaide

View of the Anzac Arch, with the Cheer Up Hut behind it. [On back of photograph] 'The Anzac Arch built / by the Cheer Up Society as a / welcome to Anzac & other service / men (near the Cheer Up Hut) at / rear of the Railway Station / Adelaide'.

Anzac Arch, Adelaide

Anzac Arch, Adelaide

View of the Anzac Arch, with the Cheer Up Hut visible through the arch. [On back of photograph] 'The Anzac Arch / built by the / Cheer Up Society / to welcome home / the Anzacs from Gallipoli & / other servicemen. / Built on Railway / property. / Showing the / Cheer Up Hut'.