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.

Formal group photograph of the 1955 Grade 4 class taken in front of BC reception.

Article describing the College, focusing on what it has to offer and its values.

1953BC_0003: Foundation class Std 6 (Grade 8)
Legend:

Back row: Endenburg, Cook, Neves, Aitken, Wilkinson, Lotter, Ashfield, Lewis, Reeves
Middle row: Kelly, McMillan, Woolley. Westhorpe, Wallis, Mair, Harvey, JF Vickers, Campbell
Front row: Coetsee, Hayes, Taylor, EM Harris, J de W Bennett, Johnson, DH Bennet

1953BC_0007: BC Address by Rev Ambrose Reeves at the laying of the Foundation Stone of the Chapel.

1953BC_0016: BC Address by Rev Dr Webb at the laying of the Foundation Stone of the Chapel.
legend:
Seated to the left are Mr and Mrs Mears and Rev Ambrose Reeves; to the righ: Mr Gilbert Tucker, Mr Leake, and Rev Arnold J Walker.

1953BC_0017: BC View of the Dining Hall from the Chapel Drive area during construction of the Chapel

1953BC_00019: Laying of the Foundation Stone of the Chapel - Charles H Leake lays the foundation stone (wide view)

Sandton Historical Association Annual Magazine #7, 1983
Contents:
1) NEWSLETTER
2) MEMBERSHIP FORM
3) QUARTET
4) INTRODUCTION by the Editor to a series of four articles concerning the farm DRIEFONTEIN which is of special importance
today as the historical WEBER HOUSE still stands on this farm.
5) FROM 1859 : LANDOWNERS OF DRIEFONTEIN by E. J. Carruthers. The story of the land and its various owners over the 120 years since the first farms were proclaimed in the Transvaal.
6) THE LOST HOUSES OF DRIEFONTEIN by Professor R. J. Mason. Report on an investigation of the site of the 1890 - 1926 Wilhelmi Farm, which remains only as a ruin, carried out by the Archaeological Research Unit of the University of the Witwatersrand.
7) WHY THE WEBER HOUSE IS WORTHY OF PRESERVATION by Juliet Marais Louw. Mrs. Marais Louw, who spent much of her childhood in what is now Sandton, makes a plea for the old WEBER HOUSE to be saved for posterity.
8) 1908 - THE WRIGHT FAMILY ARRIVE AT DRIEFONTEIN by Juliet Marais Louw. A portrait of some of the people who have lived at
Driefontein.
9) PASSING OF A PIONEER. Poetic Tribute to Mrs. E. Wilhelmi

1953BC_0006: Foundation class Grades 1 and 2
Legend (as identified by Rob McLaren):
Back row: John Goode, ... , Richard Read, Hamish Gordon, Hugh Laburn, ..., ...., Paul Nash, ..., John Napier, Paul Arnold, Kenny Kay;
Middle row: Norman Tickton, Karl Shrader, ..., David A (Ikey) Lewis, ..., Bruce Joscelyne, Richard Pryce, ..., ..., Rohan Lobb , ...;
Front row: John Lamont , ..., Ian Hampton, Rodney Kable, Andrew Brown, Anthony Miller, Nick Barcza, Graham Thompson, ..., ... .

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.

1947BC_0003: The board erected near the Corlett Gate advertising the opening of the College in 1953.

1953BC_0001: Photograph of the start of an athletics track event
TBI - names of individuals

1953BC_0008: Collins House

1953BC_0009: View to the north of the BC Classroom block from the foundations of the Chapel and showing the congregation present at the event.

1953BC_0011: Laying of the Foundation Stone of the Chapel - view of the congregation from BC upper floor corridor

1953BC_00012: Laying of the Foundation Stone of the Chapel - Charles H Leake lays the foundation stone

1953BC_0015: View of Collins House from the east showing terraces

1953BC_00020: College Official Opening: Congregation at entrance to BC Administration block

1953BC_00021: Laying of the Foundation Stone of the Chapel: view from upper BC classroom block towards Dining Hall

1953BC_00020: College Official Opening: Mrs Mountstephens unveils the Founders' plaque

1953 BP Grade 1 and 2 first photo on wagon, believed to have been taken by Miss Doehring. Names of most of the children have been identified as follows:
In the group on the wagon: David Gass, Anthony Miller, Bruce Joscelyne, John Napier, Norman Tickton, Douglas MacGregor, Andrew Brown, John Aubrey, Kenneth Kay, (John?) Donaldson, Karl Schrader, Rodney Kable, Paul Arnold;
On the wagon bar (left to right): Graeme Thompson, John Angus, Roger King, Hugh Laburn, Nicholas Barcza, John Goode, Paul Nash
Three boys were not identified in the photograph.

Informal group photograph of the Grade 1 foundation class taken in July, 1953, just before Norman Tickton joined the school. The view is towards Zandfontein Farm, the site of the present day Sandton City.

Informal group photograph of the Grade 2 foundation class taken in September, 1953 just after Norman Tickton joined the school. The photograph was taken in the Chapel area and shows construction work and Collins House in the background.

1962 BP School Spring Fair Grade 1 ST p027. Informal photograph taken in BC D1 when it was the Grade 1 classroom. The Spring Fair was a PA fundraising effort. (Report Stythian 1962, page 27).
Legend:
Pat Dewes, (?) Cox and Graham Woodworth (Class of 1971)

Formal 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.

Sandton Historical Association Annual Magazine #2, 1978
Contents:
1) Editorial 1
2) How Sandton got its Water Supply by R. I. Louttit.
3) When Ouma wrote to the School Board by Juliet Marais Louw.
4) Witkoppen School by Agnes Kulenkampff.
5) Panner' s Lane - the story of a road by Muriel E. Fisher.
6) St Mungo' s Church Bryanston by W.R. Hedding.
7) Newsletter

1947BC_0001: Formal portrait of co-founder, Albert Charles Collins

1953BC_0005: BC D6 Classroom which served as the original Grade 1 classroom when the College opened.

1953BC_0018: BC Address by Mrs E Mountstephens at the laying of the Foundation Stone of the Chapel.

1953BC_0022: Laying of the Foundation Stone of the Chapel - view of the congregation from BC upper floor corridor towards Collins House

1959 BC Sports Day Baytopp ST p069 001

Legend:

Sandton Historical Association Annual Magazine #5, 1981
Contents:
1) Local history in the Sandton context by Jane Carruthers
2) St Stithians College by Sheila and Jimmy Verner
3) The Brolins of Linbro Park by Juliet Marais Louw
4) Alexandra Township by Maud Goedhuys
5) The Sandton Fire Brigade by Jane Carruthers with information supplied by R.D. Schmidt
6) Newsletter

1947BC_0002: Formal portrait of co-founder, William Mountstephens

1953BC_0004: Foundation class Std 7 (Grade 9)
Legend:
Back row: Swan, Curtis, Craven, Borchers, Abraham, Driver, Rankine,
Front row: Buchan, Laing, EM Harris, Murrish, Cruddas

1953BC_0010: Foundation staff
Legend:
Mr EM (Monty) Harris, Miss A M Doehring, Miss EC Walmsley, Mr WGA Mears

1953BC_00014: College Official Opening: Methodist ministers with BP foundation student
Legend:
Rev Ambrose Reeves , Rev Dr J B Webb, Karl Schrader (Class of 1963)

1953BC_0023: Laying of the Foundation Stone of the Chapel - view of the congregation from BC upper floor corridor towards the Dining Hall

1953BC_0024: View across Baytopp playing fields towards BC buildings
Note: This may have been taken in early 1954 as Mountstephens House can be seen in the photo, but the Chapel building is still incomplete.

1953BC_0025: View to the north of the BC Classroom block from the foundations of the Chapel and showing the congregation present at the event.

The first Rugby team at the College that played St Johns College
TBI - names of individuals to be confirmed.
Legend:
The photograph is likely to have included the following (amongst others):
Ashfield, Miller, Craven, Abraham, Curtis, Wilkinson, Unite, Mercer-Tod, Driver, Swan, Vickers
Woolley, Cruddas, Buchan, Taylor.

1959 BC Sports Day Baytopp NIS 002

Legend: