Various publicity items from the album.
Sans titre1953 HA 004b Founders formal portrait: Albert Charles Collins
Sans titrePortrait photograph of Rev Dr J R Webb who conducted the service of the laying of the College foundation stone. At the time he was the head of the Methodist Church in South Africa.
Sans titre1953 HA 014a Leake lays Foundation Stone
Sans titre1953 HA 018c Chapel Foundation Stone: view of the assembly towards Collins House.
Sans titre1953 HA 019a Chapel Foundation Stone: view of the assembly towards Collins House.
Sans titre1956 HA 055a Chapel Harris wedding: bride entering the Chapel. The bride is the daughter of EM Harris. This was the first wedding to take place in the Chapel.
Legend:
The Charles Leake Archive consists of 2 albums, a box of correspondence and a few loose printed items and photographs. These include:
1) Printed items, particularly those relating to the Rand Aid Association of which Leake was a longstanding chairman and Methodist Churches in Johannesburg. Some brochures refer to Mountcollins House, which was named after Leake's association with the founding benefactors of the College;
2) Monochrome photographs including formal portraits, family photographs and incidental photographs;
3) Newspaper cuttings mostly related to the contribution that Leake made over his many years of involvement in the College, in the Rand Aid Association and the Methodist Church as well as a few social occasions;
4) Artefacts include Leake's passport and cards used to promote his candidacy in a Transvaal provincial election.
5) Correspondence acknowledging Leake's contribution to the development of Johannesburg and the Rand Aid Association.
6) Original certificates and licences issued to Leake and dating back to 1896.
7) Documents of the Wesleyan Church Trust.
Formal portrait photograph of Leake. It is estimated to have been taken prior to the opening of the College in 1953 and relative to later photographs, possibly in the early 1940s.
Sans titreThomas Hall Archive:
Digital copy of an obituary published in the SAJS, January 1964.
The College has very little information on Thomas Hall, an early Council member, after whom one of BP houses is named. Anyone with further information on Hall is invited to contact the Archivist.
1953 BC Foundation scholars, view looking across what was later to become the suburb of Parkmore, towards the ridge where Sandton City was built in 1973 on Zandfontein Farm.
This photograph illustrates the remoteness of the St Stithians property at the time the College was founded. The property, itself a portion of the original Driefontein Farm, was surrounded by farmland in 1953.
Early history of the school containing information on the foundation of the College and its Cornish origins, the starting of the College and milestones from 1952 to 1968, the Parents' Association and the Old Boys' Association.
Sans titrePhysical album:
The Harris album was compiled from photographs, newspaper cuttings, programmes etc. sent to Miss Harris and her sister, Mrs Hetty Kingswell, in the United Kingdom by Mr E M (Monty) Harris, a founding staff member of the College. A few further photographs and an introductory page were added by Mr Walter Mears, the first headmaster of the College.
Digital album:
The digital album, for ease of use, has been divided into four items, each of which consists of various parts;
Item 1: Complete pages
Item 2: Multi-page documents that are contained within the album. This item allows one to browse through each document individually.
Item 3: Newspaper cuttings that were folded in the album are expanded here for full viewing.
Item 4: All 115 digitised photographs from the album, listed in the chronological order in which they appear in the album.
Items collected by Lilian Harris and amalgamated into an album presented to the College following the sudden death of E M Harris in 1961.
Sans titreNoticeboard near the Corlett Gate entrance erected to advertise the opening of the College.
1953 HA 007c View of construction of BC classroom block from Dining Hall, Feb 1953
Sans titre1953 HA 014b Mrs Mountstephens unveils Founders plaque in the foyer of the Boys' College.
Sans titre1953 HA 015a Chapel Foundation stone assembly
Sans titre1953 HA 018a Chapel Foundation Stone
Sans titre1953 HA 018a Chapel Foundation Stone: view of the assembly.
Sans titre1953 HA 019g Chapel Foundation stone Mr & Mrs Tucker 19530811
Sans titre1953 HA 021a Chapel construction
Sans titre1953 HA 021d BC Classroom block construction: view from Chapel Quad.
Sans titre1956 HA 055b Chapel Harris wedding: Mr & Mrs Hacking. The bride is the daughter of EM Harris. This was the first wedding to take place in the Chapel.
Legend:
1956 HA 055d Chapel Harris wedding. The bride enters the Chapel with her father, EM Harris. This was the first wedding to take place in the Chapel. The name of the bridesmaid is not recorded.
Legend:
Extracts from letters written by E M Harris (one of four Founder Members of Staff of the College) to his sister, Lilian, in England between January 1953 and July,1961.
Sans titreFormal portrait photograph of Leake. It is dated from the same image as used on his campaign card for his candidacy for the 1920 Transvaal provincial election. At this time, Leake would have been 51 years old.
Sans titreThe Harris Album - a visual record of the early history of the school.
The Harris letters - printed and bound copies of the letters sent by EM Harris to his sister in England describing the day by day events that took place in the first eight years of the College.
1953 HA 007b Collins House north
Sans titre1953 HA 007d Collins House north view
Sans titre1953 HA 007e Collins House north view
Sans titre1953 HA 007f Collins House east
Sans titre1953 HA 017b Chapel foundation stone official party at plaque
Legend:
Left to right: Reeves, Webb, Tucker, Mountstephens, Leake
1953 HA 019a Chapel Foundation Stone: view of the assembly towards Collins House.
Sans titrePostcard pamphlet issued by Leake in support of his candidacy in the 1927 provincial election.
The pamphlet requests the support of voters for Leake.
It appears that Leake was not successful in being elected.
Postcard pamphlet issued by Leake in support of his candidacy in the 1927 provincial election (verso).
The pamphlet requests the support of voters for Leake.
It appears that Leake was not successful in being elected.
Items collected by Lilian Harris and amalgamated into an album presented to the College following the sudden death of E M Harris in 1961.
Sans titre1953 Foundation staff photo
Legend:
Left to right: EM (Monty) Harris; Miss Doehring; Miss Walmsley; Mr Wally Mears
1953 HA 004a Founders formal portrait: William Mountstephens
Sans titre1953 HA 005 Collins House north west with car Feb 1953
Sans titre1953 HA 007a Collins House north view 3
Sans titre1953 HA 007g Collins House east
Sans titre1953 HA 015b Chapel Foundation stone Rev Reeves addresses the assembly.
Sans titre1953 HA 016a Chapel foundation stone assembly looking from the Dining Hall towards the BC buildings.
Sans titre1953 HA 016b Chapel foundation stone laying: view across the Chapel foundations 19530811
Sans titre1953 HA 017a Chapel foundation stone Rev Webb address
Sans titre1953 HA 019c Architects at Dining Hall 19530811
Legend:
Left to right: [unidentified but thought to include CM Paynter and possibly AJ Marshall who were appointed in 1944]
1953 HA 019e Chapel foundation stone assembly 006
Sans titre1953 HA 019f BC Administration Building 19530811 viewed across the Chapel foundations
Sans titre1953 HA 020 Chapel foundation stone Rev Webb address 002
Sans titre1953 HA 021a Chapel construction
Sans titre1953 HA 021a Chapel construction 003 view from Collins House.
Sans titreExtracts from letters written by E M Harris (one of four Founder Members of Staff of the College) to his sister, Lilian, in England between January 1957 and May 1961.
Sans titrePamphlet issued by Leake in support of his candidacy in the 1920 provincial election: front page
Sans titrePamphlet issued by Leake in support of his candidacy in the 1920 provincial election. The verso includes his manifesto addressed to the Electors of the Division of Troyeville (Johannesburg) and ends with the words: "I have the honour to be, Gentleman, Yours truly, Chas. H. Leake" indicating that it was only men that were entitled to vote at that time.
Sans titreDigital copy of an obituary published in the SAJS, January 1964. The obituary provides details of Hall's working and academic life as well as some information on his professional and other interests.
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