Kentian Archives

25/07/2025

Many of you will recall Mollie Dinham who first arrived at the school in 1960 and left in 1984. After retiring she travelled a lot; often to 'exotic' places which she wrote about in 3 published books.
We have a supply of her third book, 'More Travels to Exotic Places' to give gratis to anyone who would like to see what she got up to after she left her educating life.
The book will need to be picked up, at our office in the school's Science Block. For details please email us at [email protected]

25/05/2025

Memorabilia can sent to the archives, electronically, to [email protected] or dropped off at the KSSHS main office, off Rathay Street, during school hours.

14/04/2025

We still need to know the given name of the 1991 Student Council President P. Barnes. Our records have this as Philip.
Please help us to complete these historic records.

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11/03/2025

Today we have a group of pictures that those of us who sat through their Junior and Leaving Certificates will relate to.
The results were published in The West Australian which was delivered to most households in the morning but they were also posted on boards outside Newspaper House in St.George's Tce the evening before.
That's where you went if driven by the anxiousness to know how you fared. Jostling with hundreds of other kids to get close enough to read your name and count the numbers following it before being shuffled out and then perhaps returning to see which subjects you failed and then coming back in to the fray check on a friend or two. There was time in the next morning to peruse the results carefully and perhaps discuss with the parents what the next move might be.
Apart from the crowd scene photo all other material has been kindly contributed by Beverley Smith (1953-55). She donated it to the Kentian Archives and we're able to share some of it with you through this page.
If you have some memorabilia to donate or even lend, we'd be grateful. Contact us at [email protected]

And why not add a comment about your Junior/Leaving results experience.

02/03/2025

The Archives needs to verify a few Head Boy and Head Girls entries as follow:
1954 Trevor MARKEY
1955 Ron PATCHING
1957 Trevor GALLAGHER
1958 Alan BEALING Margaret BURVILL
1970 Peter ?
and Student Council President 1991 Philip BARNES

Please verify or correct those that you can.
Reply in comments or email [email protected]

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23/02/2025

We have a photo entitled "Mr Calderwood's girls, 1949" but the ladies' names are indistinguishable. Can you help us identify them?

17/02/2025

The 16th Dec, 2009 was a happy day for a lot of Kent Street youngsters. Called 'Activity Day' it centred around the swimming pool but included a water slide and ball games. Here are some pics. Perhaps you can help us with some names and the year level.

19/12/2024

As published by Kent Street Senior High School. Congratulations Kevin. We are proud of your achievement. Bets wishes for the future.

30/10/2024

30th October 2010 - KSSHS 70th Anniversary Celebration. 14 years ago, today.

01/09/2024

There must have been many productions organised or put on by the drama department, during the upper school's 60+ years of operation. In the 1960s 'The Mikado' and 'The King & I' were big events, played to large public audiences. We don't have much archival material relating to subsequent productions and if you have anything tucked away at home we'd love to have digital copies (or the real thing). Email to [email protected]

We've made a little compilation of what we have below.
The Boyfriend (1983) The Little Shop of Horrors (2003)
A 'Pirates' show (2009) Frankenstein Meets Rocky Horror (2012)
Starry Night (date unknown)
We also have and entry on two other productions - Zombie Theft
and The Zombie Within (both 2011) but nothing to go with them.

18/08/2024

Our mannequin Wendy in sports kit.

16/08/2024

If you were at Kent St in 2003 you may have seen "Little Shop of Horrors", a production directed by Sally Floyd. In fact, you may well have been in it: there are a lot of names in the Cast & Crew.