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1956 HA 055d Chapel Harris wedding

1956 HA 055d Chapel Harris wedding

  • ZA ZAR STS 2019-001-01-04-79
  • Part
  • 1956

    • Part of Harris Fonds

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:

1956 HA 055b Chapel Harris wedding

1956 HA 055b Chapel Harris wedding

  • ZA ZAR STS 2019-001-01-04-78
  • Part
  • 1956

    • Part of Harris Fonds

1956 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 055a Chapel Harris wedding

1956 HA 055a Chapel Harris wedding

  • ZA ZAR STS 2019-001-01-04-77
  • Part
  • 1956

    • Part of Harris Fonds

1956 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:

1953 HA 019c Architects at Dining Hall 19530811

1953 HA 019c Architects at Dining Hall 19530811

  • ZA ZAR STS 2019-001-01-04-30
  • Part
  • 1953

    • Part of Harris Fonds

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]

Unknown

1953 BP Grade 1 and 2 first photo on wagon

1953 BP Grade 1 and 2 first photo on wagon

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.

Unknown

1955 BP Grade 4

1955 BP Grade 4

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

Unknown

1953 BP Grade 1 in Chapel area with building works

1953 BP Grade 1 in Chapel area with building works

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.

Unknown

1953 BP Grade 1 with view to Sandton

1953 BP Grade 1 with view to Sandton

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.

Unknown

Sandton Historical Association Annual Magazines 1978 - 1991

Sandton Historical Association Annual Magazines 1978 - 1991

  • ZA ZAR STS 2023-003
  • Collection
  • 1978

Five volumes of the complete collection have been digitised as they each contain articles referring to the College or Driefontein Farm, a portion of which was purchased by the Trustees in order to build the College. These articles together form a significant part of the history of the College property from c. 1880 onwards.

Sandton Historical Association

Hall collection

Hall collection

  • ZA ZAR STS 2022-005
  • Collection
  • 1964

Digital copy of an obituary published in the SAJS, January 1964

St Stithians Archives

Leake collection

Leake collection

  • ZA ZAR STS 2022-004
  • Collection
  • 1970

The Collection 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.

Leake, Charles Hobson

Boys' Prep albums 1962 - 1982

Boys' Prep albums 1962 - 1982

  • ZA ZAR STS 2021-001
  • Collection
  • 1953

The albums contain assorted photographs, newspaper cuttings, invitations to formal events and programmes of school productions as well as occasional photographs of sports teams and dramatic productions. For detailed contents see individual albums.
Some albums also contain newspaper articles (NCs) pertaining to the Boys' College as well as the Boys' Prep. However, as the majority of the album contents pertain to the BP, all items are included in this BP collection, with reference made to BC items where relevant.

Boys' Prep

Norman Tickton Fonds

Norman Tickton Fonds

  • ZA ZAR STS 2019-003
  • Collection
  • 1952 - 2006

Items include:
1) programmes of the early events at the BC during the time that Norman was a pupil (1953-1964);
2) early items of the Parents' Association on which Mr J J Tickton served;
3) photographs including those of the first classes at the College;
4) Correspondence including invitations, a Christmas greeting card and a letter

Tickton family

College Chronicle 1960 to 1962

College Chronicle 1960 to 1962

  • ZA ZAR STS 2019-002
  • Collection
  • 1960

The content of each issue varies and includes articles of interest to boys at the time, photographs and original drawings, as well as essays, obituaries and tributes and reports on some school events. The Chronicles provide insight into the thinking and interests of schoolboys in the earlier 1960s as well as a record of the life of the school from a boy's perspective.

Boys' College

Harris Fonds

Harris Fonds

  • ZA ZAR STS 2019-001
  • Collection
  • 1953

The 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.

Harris, Edwin Montague (Monty)

1953 HA 011 Rev Dr J R Webb

1953 HA 011 Rev Dr J R Webb

  • ZA ZAR STS 2019-001-01-04-16
  • Part
  • 1953

    • Part of Harris Fonds

Portrait 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.

Unknown

1953 BP Grades 1 and 2 Class ST 1953 p020 1953BC_0006

1953 BP Grades 1 and 2 Class ST 1953 p020 1953BC_0006

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, ..., ... .

Unknown

1954 BC Rugby teams at St Johns TBI

1954 BC Rugby teams at St Johns TBI

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.

Unknown

College Chronicle volume 3 number 1

College Chronicle volume 3 number 1

The articles reflect the day to day life of the College at the time.
Three copies of each issue were produced of which the Archive holds parts of a second copy. In the 2nd copy of this issue, page 8 contains a different original drawing. Page 8a in the digitised version includes the 2nd drawing.

Boys' College

Sandton Historical Association Annual Magazine #15, 1991

Sandton Historical Association Annual Magazine #15, 1991

Sandton Historical Association Annual Magazine #15, 1991
Contents:
1) Message from the Mayor of Sandton
2) Family Tree [Wilhelmi and Weber families]
3) Driefontein Farmhouse - Saved at last by Avril Reid
4) Tribute to Mrs. Elsa Wilhelmi by Juliet Marais Louw
5) Driefontein - 150 Years of Change by Dr. Jane Carruthers
6) Driefontein Land Transactions
7) Adolf and Elsa Wilhelmi: Sandton Pioneers by Dr. Jane Carruthers
8) I knew Freya Weber by Juliet Marais Louw
9) Max Weber (1) - The Man by Avril Reid
10) Max Weber (2) - The Diary 31 by Vincent Carruthers
11) The Restoration of Driefontein Farmhouse by Chris Bester, B.Arch(Pretoria)

Sandton Historical Association

College Chronicle volume 2 number 2

College Chronicle volume 2 number 2

The articles reflect the day to day life of the College at the time.
The cover and articles contained in the issue honour the first headmaster of the College, Wally Mears, on his retirement.
Tributes to founder teacher, E M (Monty) Harris, who passed away in July 1961, appear on pages 22-25 of this issue.

Boys' College

1953 BC Foundation scholars, view looking towards Sandton

1953 BC Foundation scholars, view looking towards Sandton

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.

2018 Heritage Day Chapel: Doreen Read, Charmian Kennealy and Elizabeth Dalziel visit the tuck sho...

2018 Heritage Day Chapel: Doreen Read, Charmian Kennealy and Elizabeth Dalziel visit the tuck shop at the pavilion

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.

Boys' College

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