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Maude Barlow (née Smit)

A professional singer in her youth in London (she studied under Sir Henry Wood), she returned to South Africa after the outbreak of World War I, where she opened a singing studio in Bloemfontein. Later in 1939, then living in Port Elizabeth, she started studying art, painted and modelled in clay and carved in gypsum, and exhibited widely.

Neame Family

The items in this section relate to Graham, Peter, Sylvia and Jennifer Neame and their parents Elliot Elwin Neame (also called Bobby, son of Lawrence Elwin Neame and half brother of JR Neame (Bunny), and Primrose Brereton Neame (nee Barlow, daughter of Roland and Maude Barlow).

Photographs

A number of these photographs originate from the scrapbooks, see section C, and were either removed of got detached from the scrapbook.

Rex Welsh

Photocopies relating to Rex Simpson Welsh, QC, requested by Graham Neame and provided with permission by the Archive of the Johannesburg Society of Advocates. Rex Welsh's mother was related to the Smit family.

Scrapbooks by Maude Barlow

Various scrapbooks containing photographs, newspaper clips, letters and ornaments, compiled and described by Maude Barlow. They are listed here in no particular order.

A number of photographs were either removed of got detached from the scrapbook, some of which are listed and stored with section D - PHOTOGRAPHS. The condition of some of the material in the scrapbooks is fairly poor and deteriorated, interleaving has been applied. Some of the photographs in the scrapbooks are copies of the original photos in section D. The scrapbooks are stored in oversize boxes and folders in the Media Room.