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In the 1890s, there was a Hillbrow Boys' Preparatory School in Rugby that was attended by Rupert Brooke from 1897 until mid-1901; however there can have been no connection between the two schools since Hill Brow School first appears in the 1893/4 edition of Pike's Eastbourne Directory located in Bolsover Road in the Meads district of Eastbourne ...
Hillbrow School. Hillbrow School was an English boys' preparatory school established in 1859 in the Midland town of Rugby. The founder was John William Joseph Vecquerary, a Prussian by birth, who had been recently recruited as a modern languages master at Rugby School, to which it was a feeder school, although he remained in post at Rugby. [1]
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- Origins
- A Purpose-Built School
- 1881 Census
Hillbrow Preparatory School had its origins in 1859 when John William Joseph Vecqueray, a Prussian gentleman born in Aachen (also known as Aix-la-Chapelle) in 1826, took up the post of Modern Languages Master at Rugby School. According to the 1861 census he was married to an English woman from Kent, Mary Ann, by whom he had at least five children. ...
In 1867 Vecqueray moved to Barby Road, and in 1868 the name Hillbrow is first used. In 1870 he built a very substantial purpose-built school where Kilbracken House now stands (not the same building). I suspect that Rugby School helped finance this, and they may also have provided the land. But I’ve not yet been able to find any records to substanti...
The 1881 census shows the address, for the first time, as Hillbrow Preparatory School, Rugby. Vecqueray is now a widower, living with two of his daughters, three assistant masters, 32 boys and seven servants. In 1889 Vecqueray remarried, and this was the occasion for him to retire as headmaster, though he continued on the staff of Rugby School, and...
John William Joseph Vecqueray, the founder of Hillbrow School, handed over to Thomas Bainbridge Eden (b. 27.4.1845), who brought with him his small school, Orwell House, from Clifton upon Dunsmore, Warwickshire. His wife was Horatia Katherine Frances Eden (née Gatty), sister of the famous writer, Juliana Horatia Ewing.
Jan 7, 2016 · The late 1960s saw a second building boom in Hillbrow brought on by a good economy. This development dropped off by 1971 and by 1973, the number of flats exceeded demand. By the 1980’s, Hillbrow’s private houses were mostly gone and by the 1990s, the area was a very different place to its heyday.
Hillbrow ( / ˈhɪlbroʊ /) is an inner city residential neighbourhood of Johannesburg, Gauteng Province, South Africa. It is known for its high levels of population density, unemployment, poverty, prostitution [2] and crime. It had a large and active Jewish community for much of the twentieth century and housed several Orthodox synagogues such ...
May 16, 2024 · This record is held by Cambridge University: King's College Archive Centre. Hillbrow School, boys and masters. Date has been estimated. Rupert Brooke 2nd from right, 4th row; Alfred Brooke at right end, 2nd row; ? James Strachey 6th from right, 3rd row. Taken at Hillbrow School, Rugby and mounted on card, 26.8 x 21.2.
