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1953 HA 007g Collins House east

1953 HA 015b Chapel Foundation stone Rev Reeves addresses the assembly.

1953 HA 016a Chapel foundation stone assembly looking from the Dining Hall towards the BC buildings.

1953 HA 016b Chapel foundation stone laying: view across the Chapel foundations 19530811

1953 HA 017a Chapel foundation stone Rev Webb address

1953 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

1953 HA 019f BC Administration Building 19530811 viewed across the Chapel foundations

1953 HA 020 Chapel foundation stone Rev Webb address 002

1953 HA 021a Chapel construction

1953 HA 021a Chapel construction 003 view from Collins House.

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 1957 and May 1961.

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:

Photographs taken at the Heritage Day celebrations 19th September 2018. Special guests to the Chapel Service included Mrs Doreen Read, Mrs Elizabeth Dalziel and Mrs Charmian Kennealy. All were parents in the 1950s or 1960s and Mrs Kennealy was the first Art teacher at the College (BP and BC).
2018 Heritage Day Chapel: Doreen Read, Charmian Kennealy and Elizabeth Dalziel visit the tuck shop at the pavilion and are pictured here with 2018 staff members.
Mrs Read had opened the Pavilion in 1974. The pavilion was named to commemorate the significant contribution of her late husband, Basil Read, to the construction of the College and the playing fields in the 1950s and 1960s.