Leaflet advertising the new Employer Engagement Unit.
London South Bank UniversityBrochure for the Opening Ceremony of the Borough Road Polytechnic Institute.
Borough Polytechnic InstitutePhotograph of the official opening of the new Faculty of Health and Social Care lecture hall at Havering Campus. The hall was opened by Professor Elaine Murphy, Chairman of the North East London Strategic Health Auhority and Deian Hopkin, the University's Vice Chancellor.
London South Bank UniversityComprises the Order of Ceremony programme (image) and an information booklet on the building, its design and construction.
London South Bank UniversityContains photos from the Minister of Education visit to the Borough Polytechnic in February 1951 to open the new laboratories.
National College for Heating, Ventilating, Refrigeration and Fan EngineeringPlaque inscribed; ' THE BOROUGH POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE was opened by the Right Honourable THE EARL OF ROSEBERY, K.G. On the Thirtieth Day of September, 1892. Governors:
Edric Bayley, L.C.C. Chairman
Rowland Hamilton
The Reverend Arthur William Jephson, M.L.S.B.
Alfred Lafone
Edwin Lawrence
William George Lemon, L.C.C.
Sir Philip Magnus, Kt.
Thomas Buxton Morrish
Charles Joseph Whittuck Rabbits
Evan Spicer, L.C.C.
The Honourable Maude Stanley
Richard Strong, L.C.C.
Walter Augustus Wigram'
Borough Polytechnic InstituteDetails on the new College Building.
National College for Heating, Ventilating, Refrigeration and Fan EngineeringPhotographs of the opening of the new National College building on Keyworth Street.
National College for Heating, Ventilating, Refrigeration and Fan EngineeringProgramme listing the order of proceedings and history of the polytechnics. Also contains a typewritten speech addressed to His Royal Highness.
The buildings the Duke of York opened consisted of a remodelled five-storey Borough Road building. The Duke was at the Polytechnic for an hour and whilst there delivered a short address in the Edric Hall before walking through the lecture rooms and laboratories, chatting with students at their work.
Large crowds gathered outside the Polytechnic to greet the Duke on his arrival which were kept back by mounted police. He was received by the Alderman G. T. Greenwood, Mayor of Southwark, Mr D Clifford Houghton, Chairman of the Governors, Mr Hubert A Secretan, Vice Chairman of the Governors, Lady Gooch, Chairwoman of the Governor's Education Committee, Sir Evan Spicer, Chairman of the City Parochial Foundation, Sir John Gilbert, Chairman of the LCC Education Committee and the Polytechnic's Principal, Mr J.W.Bispham. The Duke in his speech made special reference to the Polytechnic's instruction of girls and young women in homecraft and domestic science and to the institution's training of young people to lead upright, unselfish lives. He also commended the Polytechnic for keeping faithfully to its original charter and being an 'educational beacon for one of the poorer parts of London' for 30 years.
Borough Polytechnic InstituteA photograph of (from left to right): Hubert A. Secretan, Vice-Chairman of the Governing Body; Frederick Packer, Secretary and Clerk to the Governing Body; D. Clifford Highton, Chairman of the Governing Body and an unidentified man.
Borough Polytechnic InstituteA photograph of Mr D. Clifford Highton, Chairman of the Governing Body, unveiling a plaque commemorating the opening. The plaque is inscribed: 'This Hall was severely damaged by enemy action on the night of 29th September 1940. It was restored and [unknown word] during 1951 and formally opened on 1st December 1951 by D Clifford Highton MA Chairman of the Governing Body.'
Borough Polytechnic InstituteComprises photographs of the speeches given at the opening and the unveiling of a plaque commemorating the event.
Borough Polytechnic Institute