This is the fifth cache in my series of suburbs in Darwin. Darwin is a wonderful tropical city, that I have lived in for a large part of my life.
The name of Stuart Park is due to its proximity to the Stuart Highway. The area here was formerly known as Parap Camp - consisting of huts and tents. This Army camp was present during the WW11 years.
The nearby Sidney Williams hut is a survivor of the Parap Camp. It is typical of the type of prefabricated hut used pre-war and wartime army occupation of parts of Darwin and with residential use of Parap Camp by civilians at a time of acute housing shortage after the war.
The hut was constructed in 1940 to house Australian Army personnel who were then arriving in Darwin in large numbers. Amongst other occupants, it housed troops held in reserve to defend the Darwin Fortress area in the event of invasion. Most civilians had been evacuated from Darwin in 1941-42, but civilians began to return from late 1945. They found accommodation in Sidney Williams huts and other buildings in the former military camps, the largest of which was Parap Camp.
In 1947 the Northern Territory Administration took over the camp area and began allocating temporary housing there, mainly to returning part Aboriginal people. The camp continued to be occupied until Darwin's acute post war housing shortage was resolved. The hut was used as a residence and store, with a retail shop being conducted in the western section - as a store, it was a gathering place for residents of the Parap Camp area.
Have a look at the Gallery to see the interior of a Sidney Williams Hut during the 1940s.
The listed coordinates are false and within 1 km of actual cache
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Do not forget to track down the other caches in the series and learn a little about Darwin's suburbs!
s12 26.694 e 130 50.757