1.

University pictures and photographs:

(a)34 large photographs of University buildings, in the early 1930's;

(b) 18 small photographs of University buildings in the early1930's;

(c)  5 newspaper pictures of the University of Cape Town, 1930-50.

57 items

2.

File labelled "Sir Herbert Baker and Sir Edwin Lutyens" :

(a) 3 photographs and caricatures of Baker and one of Sir Edwin Lutyens;

(b) New St. George's Cathedral, Cape Town :

     3 external and internal views and 1 groundplan 19.5.76;

(c) 1 view of the Union Buildings, Pretoria, at night;

(d) Order of service at burial of Sir Herbert Baker in Westminster Abbey, 13.2.194;

(e) In Memoriam, Sir Herbert Baker : Symposium held at Witwatersrand University in memory of Sir Herbert Baker, 26.4..1946. pp.160-185 (with illustrations) deal with Baker and his architectural work. In : South African Architectural Record, July 1946.

(f) 7 photographs of buildings by Baker;

(g) Sketoh of Hindu War Memorial, New Delhi;

(h) newspaper clipping of talk in Cape Town by Six Edwin Lutyens on "Taste in Building  architects and registration". n.d.

21 items                                                                                                  

3.

Talks and articles by C.P. Walgate :

(a) Typescript of talk : ".Art and the Oxford Movement" given in St. George's Cathedral in 1933, 14pp.;

(b) "Architecture in the Union of South Africa", typescript of article for special Union Jubilee number of the London Times, 31.5.1960, 6pp.;

(c) "Religion and Art", 3 lectures given in St. George's Cathedral, about 1934, 14pp.;

(d) "Architecture of the Cape", broadcast from Cape Town on 30.9.1935 by Mr. Walgate as President of the Cape Provincial Institute of Architects.

4 items

4.

Autobiographical notes, articles by Mr. C.P. Walgate, and data about the University of Cape Town :

A.           

(a) Short autobiography of Mr. C.P. Walgate, typescript, 4pp.;

(b) 2pp. of photographs : (i) architects at Delhi, 1919, including Baker, Lutyens and Mr. Walgate; (ii.) "Baker's staff in London, 1913-14" (including Mr. Walgate), and "Baker in his room at the same time";

(c) holograph letter from Sir Herbert Baker to Mr. C.P. Walgate,dated 3 March 1920 from Cobham;

(d) Notes on “men who helped us”: C.H.N. Merrifield, T.W. Milligan, R. Stubbs, C.H. Langley and E. White; and a note re Rhodes statue by Mrs. Marion Walgate.

B.

Programme : Order of proceedings at the laying of the foundation Stone of the New Buildings at Groote Schuur, 1.5.1925 by H.R.H. the Prince of Wales (later the Duke of Windsor), the Chancellor of the University of Cape Town.

C.

(i)University of Cape Town Assembly Hall (Jameson Hall) : memorandum re external dome, 19,XI 1930, typescript, 2pp.;

(ii) Jameson Memorial Hall, memorandum by C.P. Walgate, February 1965, typescript, 2pp., signed C.P, Walgate;

(iii) Letter from C.P. Walgate to Neville E. Dubow on 28.8.1967 giving details about the building of the Jameson Hall.

D.

A famous personality in the School of Architecture : Reuben Stubbs retires. Extract from TAT.

E.

Questions from the Librarian, University of Cape Town, sent to Mr. C.P. Walgate in February 1968, 2 pp., and his written replies, 3pp., supplementing what is also found in 4A and 4C above

F.           

(a) Article by C.P. Walgate entitled : "A national treasure in danger, the architectural features of Cape Town's Castle", published in South African Nation, 11.7.1925: pp.21-23 (with illustrations).

(b) Article by C.P. Walgate entitled : "Vergelegen", published in South African Architectural Record, December 1926 s pp.100-101, with 5 illustrations and plans.

(c) Memorandum by Mr. C.P. Walgate on Rust-en Vreugde, Cape Town, Lower part of stoep (prepared for the National Monuments Com­mission), typescript, 1p.

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5.

Thesis by Mr. C.P. Walgate on the Church of Santa Maria di Loreto in Trajan's Forum in Rome.  Work done in Rome as Travelling Scholar from the Royal College of Art in 1910.

Fair copy with the original drawings presented to the Royal Institute of British Architects Library in 1960. 14 plans and sketches and typescript report of 12pp.

15 items                                                                                                               

6.

Album of photographs (exteriors and interiors) of the University of Cape Town Buildings at Groote Schuur site in the early 1930’s. 50 photographs.

Note in album by Mr. C.P. Walgate states "Half a dozon copies of this album were made and allocated to the architects, Hawke, McKinlay and Walgate and the builders : Ramsay and Alexander and Hoheisen.  This is Walgate's copy".

50 items                                                                                                                

7.

Photographs, descriptions and plans of New Delhi :

(a)Article by C.M. Chipkin on "New Delhi" in South African Architectural Record, November 1958 : pp.21-29

(b) Article : Civic design section - the New Delhi, from The Builder, 1.8.1913­

(c) Article in Swedish (?) on "Imperial Delhi," with 2 illustrations, showing work of Lutyens and Baker.  2pp.

(d) Article from The Times, 26.9.1962, entitled "need for urban planning" by Gordon Cullen, with 4 illustrations of New Delhi.

(e) Article from The Times (Weekly Edition), 11.7.1913 entitled "The New Delhi, planning of an imperial city", with plan. 1p.

(f) Article "Imperial Delhi" from The Architect 28.3.1919 :pp.213­-216 and 218 (with plans and sketches .

(g) Article by Walter George, entitled : "The Roadside planting of Lutyens’ 'New Delhi", reprinted from Urban and Rural Planning Thought, vol. I, no. 2: pp.78-90 (with illustrations); and13 plans and reproductions of: sketches and elevations of buildings.                                                                                                               20 items

8.

Photographs, postcards and notes of buildings at New Delhi.

Note by Mr. C.P. Walgate : "photographs and notes collected while working on Delhi with Sir Herbert Baker".

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9.

Sir Herbert Baker to Mr. C.P. Walgate : photocopies of 4 letters dated as follows : Red Sea, 20.3.1922; Indian Ocean, 25 February (no year, but after official opening of New Delhi); London, 1.4.1925; London, 1.4.1925; London, 22.11.1927.  (Photocopied from the originals in the possession of Mr. C.P. Walgate).

4 items                                                                                                                      

10.

Martello Tower, Simonstown – folder DAD 577

11.

Newspaper clippings pasted into scrapbook – contains info on buildings etc that Walgate and Elsworth were involved in.  DAD 596

12.

Album containing photos of Stellenbosch Town Hall.  DAD 596