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A publication produced to accompany the Gallery exhibition. It comprises a preface, an introduction to the project of establishing the Gallery, a short essay by Sarah Rose and biographies of the artists included in the collection.

Feature from the BBC Culture Show on 'A David Bomberg Legacy - the Sarah Rose Collection' and the creation of Borough Road Gallery.

Bomberg and his Students was an exhibition of paintings and drawings by members of the Borough Group and by some associated artists who attended Bomberg's classes at the Borough Polytechnic between 1945-1953 to celebrate the University's centenary.

The exhibition was the first commercial gallery exhibition in fifty years to show works by Borough Group painters. The artists included were David Bomberg, Denis Creffield, Cliff Holden, Lilian Holt, Leslie Marr, Dorothy Mead and Miles Peter Richmond.

Invitation to a reception to mark the purchase of David Bomberg's "The Middle Temple" by South Bank Polytechnic. The picture currently hangs in the Borough Road building.

1954 Prospectus lists David Bomberg as a member of the Department of Art and Crafts staff

A film comprising interviews with staff members and Vice-Chancellor, Baroness Pauline Perry of Southwark along with footage of the University's various Centenary celebrations in 1992, including:

• A dinner dance in Edric Hall featuring the Wurlitzer organ,

• Honorary degree ceremony at Southwark Cathedral including Dame Betty Boothroyd receiving an Honorary Doctorate,

• Student Engineering Product Design Show,

• One Europe Dinner in the Tower Restaurant,

• Wall-climbing robot,

• Bomberg & His Students Exhibition including interviews with Miles Peter Richmond, Cliff Holden, Susannah Richmond, Philip Holmes, Dinora Mendelson, and Bernard Davies-Rees,

• British Youth Opera Centenary Tribute Concert,

• Centenary dinner at Baker's Hall

• Service at Southwark Cathedral including a performance of 'Guadeamus for Trumpet and Organ' composed especially for the University's Centenary by Alan Gorb of the Royal Academy of Music and performed by members of the Royal Artillery Company,

• Centenary Dinner at Mansion House