Sydney Grammar School Archives
Description
Sydney Public Free Grammar School opened in 1825. It was replaced by Sydney College which commenced in 1835 in a new building in College Street – but it closed in 1850. Sydney Grammar School was founded by an Act of Parliament in 1854 so that that the fledgling University of Sydney should have a ‘nursery’ to provide it with well-prepared undergraduates.
The re-founded school’s work commenced in 1857, in the College Street buildings and has remained here ever since.
The School Archives were established in 1981 to facilitate research into the School’s history.
Sources available to assist Old Sydneians, biographers and others interested in the School include:
- Sydney College Register 1835-1850
- SGS Liber Nominum 1857-1913
- Speech Day Reports 1859-1970
- The Sydneian, 1875-1979
- SGS magazine
- Photographs
- A History of SGS by C Turney (1989)
- Correspondence
- SGS Olympians
- Edgecliff Preparatory School material and SGEPS Archives
- SGS World War I Honour Board and list of servicemen
- List of SGS World War II casualties compiled by J Williamson – (Please use the zoom function to read table)
- SGS From its Earliest Days book (1924)
- SGS Press Publications
- Architectural drawings and plans
- Building and restoration files
- Etchings
Literary works by staff and pupils and references to the School are featured in many publications which are collected and held in the Archives Reference Library.
A comprehensive photographic collection records sporting and other activities pursued by generations of Grammar boys. However, significant gaps exist in some areas, and they are always interested in expanding their photographic holdings. Please contact Bridget Minatel (Archivist) for more information on sgsarchives@sydgram.nsw.edu.au.