South Adelaide Creche

Photograph; 15.6 cm x 10.7 cm

In May 1887 Laura Mary Louisa Corbin founded the South Adelaide Day Nursery (later known as Creche) to provide affordable high standard childcare for working mothers. 

In August 1896, watched by a large crowd she laid the foundation stone for this beautiful dolls-house like building, paid for by donations from the Children's Sunbeam Society.

[On back of photograph] 'Acre 407 / Gouger Street, south side / July 21st 1897 / The South Adelaide Creche / The left side of the creche is 10 yards west of Mill Street and frontage is 10 yards'.