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.

The brother of Maude Barlow (nee Smit) was a composer and musician. Graham Smit was killed in Flanders/Belgium in September 1917. Including: correspondence; Cover for note sheets for "In sweet July" Waltz Serenade by Graham Smit, dedicated to Deaconess MS Burton, undated; note sheets for "A Farewell" for violin, by Graham Smit, undated. See also oversize folder for some of these items.

Mainly to her mother Maude Barlow.

Publications in various international medical journals; also included CD with diagnostic images in haematology, published in An Atlas of Morphology, PDF format.

Sylvia Neame was held on two occasions under the 90-day law, in Pretoria Central for the whole of her first detention and 2 weeks of her second detention, as well as in Fordsburg police station, and was charged for membership of the CP, awaiting trial for 9 months in the Old Fort Prison in Johannesburg, immediately thereafter taken down to Port Elizabeth and housed in the North End Gaol for some months during her Humansdorp trial, thereafter taken to Barberton Prison. After her release from Barberton Prison in April 1967, she left South Africa in May 1967.

Sylvia Neame was one of 14 accused in the trial The State vs Abram Fischer and 13 Others. The were charged in August 1964 for contravening the Suppression of Communism Act, and included Abram Fischer (accused no. 1), Ivan Frederick Schermbrucher, Eli Weinberg, Esther Barsel, Norman Levy, Lewis Baker, Jean Strachan (Middleton), Ann Nicholson, Constantinos Gazidis, Paul Henry Trewhela, Sylvia Brereton Neame, Florence Duncan, Mollie Irene Doyle and Hymie Barsel. They were found guilty and sentenced in April 1965. After his re-arrest Abram Fischer was charged in November 1965 and sentenced to life imprisonment on the 4 May 1966.

Mainly written by Maude Barlow to the Prime Ministers Office, the Department of the Interior, the Prison Department, the Ministry of Justice.

Accessed and printed from Wikipedia by Sylvia Neame.

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.

Including few copies of the families Neame, Barlow, Smit. Stored in oversize box.