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Coloured Methodist School Churches

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Title: Coloured Methodist School Churches
Alternative Title: Methodist Church of Southern Africa — Coloured Church-School Collection
Creator: Methodist Church of Southern Africa
Description: The Coloured Methodist School Churches collection is a digitised archival collection from the Cory Library and Historical Archives at Rhodes University documenting Methodist church-related schools and community institutions historically associated with the Coloured Methodist community in South Africa. This collection is part of the Cory Churches Collections under the Methodist Church of Southern Africa category and comprises approximately 46 items, predominantly historical photographs and related materials. The images depict a range of church school buildings, activities, and community life including school openings and extensions, mission and church-school structures in locations such as Bellville, Parow, Goodwood, Maitland, Pinelands, and other areas with significant Coloured Methodist educational and religious engagement. Many items document church-school infrastructure from the 1920s through the 1930s, with visual evidence of church-community relations, the role of Methodist education among Coloured populations, and aspects of social life and support networks within the Methodist Church. Items also include community events, youth organisations such as the Boys’ Brigade, and contextual insights into welfare and social conditions. The collection supports research in religious history, education history, Methodist Church activities, and Coloured community heritage in South Africa.
Language: English
Type: Collection
Subject: Coloured Methodist school churches; Coloured community heritage; Boys’ Brigade; Methodist Church of Southern Africa; Mission schools
Spatial Coverage: Various South African localities (Bellville, Goodwood, Parow, Maitland, Pinelands, etc.)
Temporal Coverage: Primarily 1920s–1930s
Format: Digital images

Hierarchies: Cory Churches Collections
Anglican (14 items)
Church of the Province of Southern Africa (4 items)
Glasgow Missionary Society (8 items)
Methodist Church of Southern Africa (86 items)
Coloured Methodist School Churches (46 items)
Kilnerton Training Institution (27 items)
Methodist Church of Southern Africa - Miscellaneous (13 items)
St Marks (23 items)
Trinity Presbyterian Church (17 items)

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Albertus Street School built in 1934
Bellville (church) showing first extension 1931
Bellville evangelist's house completed 1938
Bellville Methodist Church - extensions 1938
Bellville Methodist Church - further extension opened in 1935
Boys' Brigade -- South Africa
Written on flap of envelope: "Snaps taken on the occasion of a parade of the B.B. Battalion on Young's Field, Wynberg during the visit of Mr. McVicker from London"
Boys' Brigade leadership at officer training course - Wesley College (back of photo)
Boys' Brigade leadership at officer training course - Wesley College (envelope)
Boys' Brigade leadership at officer training course - Wesley College (photo)
Boys' Brigade parade at Youngsfield, Wynberg
Boys' Brigade parade at Youngsfield, Wynberg
Boys' Brigade parade at Youngsfield, Wynberg
Boys' Brigade parade at Youngsfield, Wynberg
Capt. Arendse and Mr. McVicker of the Boys' Brigade (back of photo),: Boys' Brigade Parade at Youngsfield, Wynberg
Boys' Brigade Parade at the event of a visit from William McVicker. Handwritten description on the back of photo: "(Left) Capt. Arendse of the Wynberg Company an experienced and competent officer. (Rights) Wm. H. McVicker M.Sc. a secretary of the International Committee sent out from B.B. Headquarters in London to visit B.B. work in South Africa".
Capt. Arendse and Mr. McVicker of the Boys' Brigade (envelope)
Boys' Brigade Parade at the event of a visit from William McVicker. Handwritten description on the flap of envelope received containing photo of Capt. Arendse and Mr. McVicker: "Snaps taken on the occasion of a parade of the B.B. Bettalion on Young's Field, Wynberg during the visit of Mr. McVicker from London".
Capt. Arendse and Mr. McVicker of the Boys' Brigade,: Boys' Brigade Parade at Youngsfield, Wynberg
Boys' Brigade Parade at the event of a visit from William McVicker. Handwritten description on the back of photo: "(Left) Capt. Arendse of the Wynberg Company an experienced and competent officer. (Rights) Wm. H. McVicker M.Sc. a secretary of the International Committee sent out from B.B. Headquarters in London to visit B.B. work in South Africa".
Children, Mr. Mason and the Master of the Supreme Court (back of photo)
Transcription: "Three young Coloured children were left orphaned. The parents had owned a [plot of land on the Flats. The Master of the Supreme Court consented to make a grant of £30 available to be used on behalf of the children and entrusted the sum to Mr. Mason "to be put out to the best advantage." On the piece of land of land they had inherited he had the building, photographed herewith, erected to provide a dwelling for them. There would be a small Government maintenance grant for each child and a grandmother moved in to care for the children".
Children, Mr. Mason and the Master of the Supreme Court (photo)
Typed inscription on the back of the photo: "Three young Coloured children were left orphaned. The parents had owned a [plot of land on the Flats. The Master of the Supreme Court consented to make a grant of £30 available to be used on behalf of the children and entrusted the sum to Mr. Mason "to be put out to the best advantage." On the piece of land of land they had inherited he had the building, photographed herewith, erected to provide a dwelling for them. There would be a small Government maintenance grant for each child and a grandmother moved in to care for the children".
Churchill Estate, Parow - Church-school 1934 with 120 children and 3 teachers
Churchill Estate, Parrow - late 1920s
Coloured labourer partially disabled (back of photo)
Transcript: "A Coloured labourer was partially disabled at his work. The firm employing him allowed him £100 in compensation for his injury and entrusted the amount to Mr. Mason to use for the man as he saw fit. He brought a plot of land on the Flats and on it had a small house, consisting of three rooms and a kitchen, built to serve the family as a home such as they would never otherwise had, and it was their own."
Coloured labourer partially disabled (photo)
Typed on back of photo: "A Coloured labourer was partially disabled at his work. The firm employing him allowed him £100 in compensation for his injury and entrusted the amount to Mr. Mason to use for the man as he saw fit. He brought a plot of land on the Flats and on it had a small house, consisting of three rooms and a kitchen, built to serve the family as a home such as they would never otherwise had, and it was their own."
Conradie Hospital, Pinelands
Garden Village Church School, Maitland - circa 1926
Goodwood church school next to church, Goodwood - circa 1934
Photo depicting Goodwood church school, opened in 1934 by Mr De Vos Malan.