The Grotto House with trees and flowers in front, 1922
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“The Grotto House with trees and flowers in front, 1922”, Cory Library and Historical Archives, accessed 29 December 2025, https://digitalarchives.ru.ac.za/s/cory/item/10294
- Description
- Grahamstown Training College: In 1903 Mother Cecile went to England soon after the Boer war, which had greatly affected Grahamstown, to raise funds to buy land on Grey Street (Land was bought between 1902 and 1924). At the board meeting in June she announced that she had raised money to buy The Grotto, the building and land on which Grahamstown Traning College was built. She proposed that a block of classrooms were to be erected to accommodate 160 students. Mother Cecile’s determination to build a College that would accommodate 160 students was both far reaching and realistic. On August the 31st, 1903, the Foundation stone was laid. The inscription on it reads: Grahamstown Training School. This building is a gift from the Mother Country. To help forward our common hope “That our daughters may grow up as the polished corners of the temple” Psalm cxliv 12. In May 1904 the College block was opened. The new Grahamstown Training College was opened 20 years after the Community was founded. There were now 89 students and the first GTC magazine was published. Except for 1 year before the Gorvett’s took over from Mother Nonie, a magazine or newsletter has been produced every year since then. The Old Girls Guild was formed.
- Subject
- Butler, Guy, 1918-2001 -- Photographs
- Butler family -- Photographs
- Grahamstown Training College -- Buildings -- Photographs
- Grahamstown Training College -- History -- Photographs
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/43763
- Date Issued
- 1922
- Provenance
- Butler Family Photograph Collection
- Type
- still image
- Format
- jpg
- Location - Physical Location
- Original held at Cory Library for Humanities Research, situated at Rhodes University.
- Location - Copy -- Shelf Locator
- PIC/M 4943/12.12
- useGuidelines
- In order to obtain a license for the use of any of the images apply to the Cory Library at cory@ru.ac.za
- Item sets
- Butler Family Collection
“The Grotto House with trees and flowers in front, 1922”, Cory Library and Historical Archives, accessed 29 December 2025, https://digitalarchives.ru.ac.za/s/cory/item/10294
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