Brief History of Mansfield High School
Mansfield High School was a boys school situated in Durban South Africa. It was established in 1911 and closed at the end of 1988. This web site is a journey through the years in which it functioned. It serves as a legacy to the old boys, and teaching staff, that occupied the classrooms, passed through it’s corridors and proudly played on the sport fields. To the old boys out there, enjoy the journey through nostalgia.
The Badge
The school was established by the Natal Education Department as the Mansfield Road Primary School and it is thought that it was the first to be built by the new Provincial Department after Union in 1910.
The first pupils were placed in Standard Two to Six and numbered about 400, many of whom had moved from the Old Boys’ Model School in Smith Street, Durban.
In 1920 Secondary Classes (60) pupils were introduced and it then became an “Intermediate School”.
The growth of the secondary department resulted in the withdrawal of classes below Standard Five in 1939 and in 1942 it became a High School.
Considerable additions have been made to the original building and additional blocks have been added si nee 1957.
The colours of the school are maroon and bottle green. The badge is essentially a ship’s wheel and is quite clearly connected with the motto which means ‘O Lord Guide Us’. It was designed by Mr. A. Rainsbury in 1942.
Within the wheel appears the Bluff of Durban, surmounted by the old light house. In the foreground is a steamer passing across the bar into the open sea.
It might be said that the school sends its boys out on the sea of I ife well equipped against all its perils with the light of knowledge to point the way and with a prayer for divine guidance.
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