1960 Gymkhana on Prep playing field
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Part of St David's Photograph Collection
5 A6 black and white photos
Marist Inanda
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1960 Gymkhana on Prep playing field
Part of St David's Photograph Collection
5 A6 black and white photos
Marist Inanda
1960 Gymkhana on Prep School Fields
11 black and white photos
St David's College Inanda
Part of St David's Photograph Collection
Black & white photo
St David's Marist Inanda
Part of St David's Photograph Collection
Black & white photo
St David's Marist Inanda
1969 Photograph Album including photos of Horse riding, Drama and a Concert
Part of St David's Photograph Collection
A4 Photo album of 14 pages
St David's College Inanda
Part of St David's Photograph Collection
Black & white photo
St David's Marist Inanda
Part of St David's Photograph Collection
Black & white photo
St David's Marist Inanda
Part of St David's Photograph Collection
Black & white photo
St David's Marist Inanda
Part of St David's Photograph Collection
Black & white photo
St David's Marist Inanda
Part of St David's Photograph Collection
Black & white photo
St David's Marist Inanda
Part of St David's Photograph Collection
Black & white photo
St David's Marist Inanda
1977 Hickstead Horse Riding Team
Part of St David's Photograph Collection
Black & white photo
St David's Marist Inanda
1978 Horse and rider at a jump. Photo taken at Honeydew on 8 January 1978
Part of St David's Photograph Collection
A6 original photo
St David's College Inanda
Part of St David's Photograph Collection
Black & white photo
St David's Marist Inanda
Part of St David's Photograph Collection
Black & white photo
St David's Marist Inanda
Part of St David's Photograph Collection
Black & white photo
St David's Marist Inanda
Part of St David's Photograph Collection
2 A6 black and white photos. In yearbook p57 and 59
St David's College Inanda
1982 St David's Annual Horse Show - S.A.N.E.C, Kyalami 7 & 8 August 1982
Part of St David's Photograph Collection
1 A6 colour photo. In yearbook p.55
St David's College Inanda
Part of St David's Photograph Collection
Black and white photo from yearbook
St David's College Inanda
1983 St David's Horse Riding Team at Hickstead, UK
Part of St David's Photograph Collection
Black and white photo from yearbook
St David's College Inanda
1984 St David's Annual Horse Show
Part of St David's Photograph Collection
Black and white photo rom yearbook
St David's College Inanda
Part of St David's Photograph Collection
Black & white photo
St David's Marist Inanda
1992 Horse Riding, Paul Gerard
Part of St David's Photograph Collection
Black & white photo
St David's Marist Inanda
Interview with Lloyd Wilkins 1980
Interview with Lloyd Wilkins – 1980
Lloyd joined St David’s in January 1979, having just arrived in South Africa from Rhodesia, as it was then.
He had been a pupil at St George’s in Salisbury and arrived knowing nobody at the school. However the
boys were very welcoming and it didn’t take long before he felt at home.
Lloyd remembers with clarity that in his first few days at the school, he lost R100 which he had been given
by his parents to buy books. He was quite panicked as it was a lot of money, especially in the context of
having just emigrated. He made it known that he had lost the money and within a short time it was handed
to him, much to his relief. The temptation to keep the money must have been high but the integrity of his
peers was evident.
Lloyd really enjoyed the camaraderie and made lifelong friends, most of whom he is still in touch with on a
regular basis. A group of them in Australia meet at least once a quarter to spend a long weekend together
with their wives. One aspect of St David’s he didn’t enjoy was the caning.
In matric a group of the boys had found a small piece of wood which had broken off a desk lid and, during
lunch break, they were playing soccer with it in the corridor outside the first floor classrooms. Their ”ball”
was kicked down the stairs and Lloyd chase after it only to collide near the bottom of the stairs with their
headmaster Br Timothy who was coming up the stairs to investigate the noise. Lloyd’s momentum was
such that he bowled him over and landed on top of him at the bottom of the stairs. Fortunately the only
injury was to his pride and Lloyd was ordered to his office to receive a caning. He thinks he was the only
matric boy to be caned that year.
A teacher he remembers was Mr McFadden who ensured that all his pupils developed a love of history and
obtained good marks in matric, in part by teaching the boys under a tree on the side of the rugby field.
Lloyd played 3rd rugby XV, 2nd cricket XI, was in the athletics team and captain of the riding club,
participated in senior best speakers competition, was marketing director of the business game. Lloyd
played 2nd team rugby in standard 9 but broke his leg playing St John’s and broke it again at the start of
matric so he missed most of the season once again.
In 1979 Lloyd captained the St David’s riding team and with his younger brother Graham and Simon Bird,
went to England to compete in the All England Schools Show jumping competition at Hickstead. On
borrowed horses they competed against the best English schools and came third!
Lloyd was awarded a scroll for studies.
The matric dance had the theme space and they had as much fun decorating the hall with pictures of
spacecraft as they had at the actual event.
On their last day a large group of boys returned to the school after midnight, dressed in black and pushing
their cars so as not to raise the alarm. They proceeded to decorate the trees in the quad with large
amounts of toilet paper. They became more enthusiastic as they progressed and their stealth was soon
replaced by increasing hilarity, culminating in an epic water fight involving two groups of them, each
manning a fire hose in the corridors outside the first floor classrooms. As lights went on in the brothers’
sleeping quarters they made a hasty retreat.
He went on to study a BA(Law) at Wits University and is now chief operating officer of Barclays Bank in
Australia. He is also chairman of Street Work a charity that helps homeless youths in Sydney. Lloyd is
married and has two daughters studying at a university in Sydney.
Lloyd last visited St David’s in 2006 but attended an informal reunion organised by Sven Arp in August
2013.
JLE November 2013
Egenrieder, Julie