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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 ...
Hill Brow Preparatory School for Boys was a small English preparatory school, initially based in Eastbourne, East Sussex, but subsequently relocated to Brent Knoll in Somerset as part of the evacuation of civilians that took place during World War II.
- 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...
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 ...
- 1.08 km² (0.42 sq mi)
- 1894
- 010
- South Africa
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.
7 gen 2016 · In 1915 it was renamed Hospital Hill School (presumably due to the anti-German sentiment at the time) and became an English school. The Andre Huguenot Theatre now stands where the school stood. Great early view looking south of the area showing the original school and Friedenskirche.
Hillbrow is an inner city residential neighbourhood of Johannesburg, known for its high levels of population density, unemployment, poverty and crime. This is where the vision of MES was born in 1986.
