Leach, Thomas Archibald
Introduction
Thomas Archibald Leach
Arrangement

Catalogue
1. Official Papers
2. Personal Papers
3. Articles, Lectures, Speeches (Drafts)
4. Photographic Material
(a) Albums
(i) Sudan
(ii) Egypt
(b) Loose Photographs
(i) Khartoum Province, 1906
(ii) Blue Nile Province, 1916
(ii) Kassala, 1917, 1924
(iv) Kordofan, 1918 - 1920
(v) Red Sea Province, 1921
(vi) Berber Province
(vii) Halfa province, 1925 - 1927
(viii) Egypt
(ix) Personal
(x) P.R.O. Photographs
(xi) Unidentified
(c) Lantern Slides
5. Miscellanea
6. Maps
7. Newspaper Cuttings
8. Museum Objects
9. Printed Material
Separated printed material now in Durham University Library
Reference code: GB-0033-SAD
Title: Leach, Thomas Archibald
Dates of creation: 1883-1961
Extent: 6 boxes
Held by: Durham University Library, Archives and Special Collections
Created by: Leach, Thomas Archibald
Language: English

Thomas Archibald Leach

(1882 - 1964)

1906 Deputy Inspector, Khartoum Province
1907-1910 Deputy Inspector, Land Settlement Service, Halfa Province
1911 Deputy Inspector, Halfa
1912-1915 Second Inspector, Rufa`a, Blue Nile Province
1916 Second Inspector, Khartoum North, Khartoum Province
1916-1918 Second Inspector/Senior Inspector, Kassala
1918-1921 Senior Inspector, El Obeid,Kordofan
1921 Governor(?), Red Sea Province
1921-1924 Governor, Berber Province
1924-1925 Governor, Khartoum Province
1925-1927 Governor, Halfa Province
1927 Retired from Sudan Service


Arrangement

1. Official Papers
2. Personal Papers
3. Articles, Lectures, Speeches (Drafts)
4. Photographic Material
(a) Albums
(i) Sudan
(ii) Egypt
(b) Loose Photographs
(i) Khartoum Province, 1906
(ii) Blue Nile Province, 1916
(iii) Kassala, 1917, 1924
(iv) Kordofan, 1918 - 1920
(v) Red Sea Province, 1921
(vi) Berber Province
(vii) Halfa Province, 1925 - 1927
(viii) Egypt
(ix) Personal
(x) P.R.O. Photographs
(xi) Unidentified
(c) Lantern slides
5. Miscellanea
6. Maps
7. Newspaper Cuttings
8. Museum Objects
9. Printed Material
This collections contains a photograph album of Jessie Laing, later Mrs. T.A. Leach, who with her sister Margaret, accompanied her father to the Sudan in 1919 on business. Jessie subsequently married T.A. Leach while Margaret married C.P. Browne, both of the Sudan Political Service

Accession details

Presented by J.W. Leach, 1987

Catalogue
1. Official Papers
SAD.208/2/1-2
1919 Mar 1
Mention in despatches for T.A. Leach by Sir L.O. Stack for gallant and distinguished services in the field, 1917-18. Certificate signed by Winston Churchill, Secretary of State for War
SAD.208/2/3-10
1924 Aug
Draft report by A.C. Parker on events at Atbara, 9-12 Aug 1924 when Sudanese and Egyptians of the army's Railway Battalion took part in anti-government demonstrations, as a result of which the entire Railway Battalion was evacuated to Egypt
SAD.208/2/11-13
Memorandum by R.C.R. Owen, Director of Intelligence regarding the use and working of the ordinary word letter cypher
2. Personal Papers
SAD.208/3/1
Copy of birth and baptism entries for James Gordon Laing (1885), Margaret Laing (1886) and Jessie Laing (1887) and for the marriage of their parents Maria Louisa Smith and Robert Alexander Laing in 1883
SAD.208/3/2-52
1916 Jan 6 - 1960 Nov 29
Personal letters to T.A. Leach including `Abd al-Qadir Sharif and H.O. Harry, regretting T.A. Leach's departure from Khartoum in 1916 (SAD.208/3/2-3); Edward Pease and C.A. Willis re the gratuity paid to Slatin Pasha (SAD.208/3/4-6); farewell letter from J.L. Maffey on T.A. Leach's departure from the Sudan in 1927 (SAD.208/3/9); H.C. Jackson re his trip to Selima by car (SAD.208/3/21) and re the death of `Uthman Diqnah (SAD.208/3/26); H.C. Squires re reviews of his book The Sudan Medical Service: an experiment in social medicine (1958) (SAD.208/3/40-41); H.E. Hebbert re his investigations into the existence of a post office at Tewfikia (Halfa) (SAD.208/3/43-46); T.A. Leach to H.C. Jackson re the latter's biography of Bishop Gwynne, Pastor on the Nile (SAD.208/3/51)
SAD.208/4/1-15
1920 Oct 19 - 1934 Oct 17
Receipts and correspondence concerning subscriptions to Sudan Notes and Records
SAD.208/4/16-20
1920
Insignia of the fourth class of the order of Nile conferred upon by T.A. Leach by the Sultan of Egypt, with related letter from A.J. Eagleston concerning the issue of a warrant from the king authorising him to wear the insignia
SAD.208/4/21-22
1921 Jan 22
Licence to wear the insignia of the fourth class of the order of the Nile, issued to T.A. Leach
SAD.208/5/1-40
1930 Feb 13 - 1932 Mar 13
Correspondence concerning lectures given by T.A. Leach
SAD.208/5/41-52
1945 Jun 20
Correspondence from and concerning Shaikh Babikr Badri, founder of girls' education in the Sudan.
See also under Newspaper Cuttings, Photographic Material and Printed Material
3. Articles, Lectures, Speeches (Drafts)
SAD.208/6/1-21
1913-1914
Two articles by T.A. Leach for The Manchester Guardian, with related correspondence. (See also under Printed Material)
SAD.203/6/1-4
“A land settlement officer at work”
SAD.203/6/5-8
“The young idea” (concerning Rufa`a school)
SAD.208/6/22-38
1917-1919
Article by T.A. Leach on “Date trees in Halfa Province” for Sudan Notes and Records, with related correspondence (see S.N.R. v2 no2, 1919)
SAD.208/7/1-49
1926
Article by T.A. Leach on “Selima oasis” for Sudan Notes and Records, with related correspondence. (Ms. and ts. drafts. See S.N.R. v9 no2, 1926)
SAD.208/7/50-51
1927 Apr 27
Valedictory speech on the occasion of T.A. Leach's retirement from Halfa Province (Ar. with covering letter)
SAD.208/8/1-127
1930-1933
Notes for lectures on the Sudan given by T.A. Leach to the Royal Empire Society and various Rotarian groups and schools, with lists of lantern slides used to illustrate the talks
4. Photographic Material
(a) Albums
(i) Sudan
SAD.766/8/1-184
[c. 1906-1910]
Album of photographs covering T.A. Leach's service as Deputy Inspector Khartoum and Deputy Inspector, Land Settlement Service in Halfa. Many of these photographs are repeated in album 771/2/1-177. (* Denotes the existence of a duplicate, some of which are of better quality then the photographs in the albums.)
SAD.766/8/1
T.A. Leach on the Nile in the Pathfinder
SAD.766/8/2
4 “railway” rooms - Macauley's house at Halfa, taken from the Nile
SAD.766/8/3
South wall of Halfa camp (from outside)
SAD.766/8/4
Desert behind Halfa camp, looking north
SAD.766/8/5
South wall of Halfa camp and tennis court (from inside)
SAD.766/8/6
Ghaffir at Behen (Halfa temple)
SAD.766/8/7
Views across river from Halfa camp
SAD.766/8/8
Behen (Halfa temple)
SAD.766/8/9
Halfa civil hospital
SAD.766/8/10
Tulba of prisoners carrying T.A. Leach's and other luggage at Abu Hamed
SAD.766/8/11
Merowe, from the river
SAD.766/8/12
Karima
SAD.766/8/13
Dongola
SAD.766/8/14
A stopping place for the Dongola steamer
SAD.766/8/15-16
Kerma
SAD.766/8/17
View from Abu Fatma, looking into Halfa Province
SAD.766/8/18
View from Abu Fatma looking into Dongola Province - all low-lying rich land
SAD.766/8/19
The gubba of Abu Fatma
SAD.766/8/20
Middle of Hannik cataract (3rd cataract)
SAD.766/8/21
Khandaq
SAD.766/8/22
Boat in Hannik cataract
SAD.766/8/23
View looking north from hill just behind Tagab. River on right
SAD.766/8/24
Getting up Hannik cataract. Muhammad Wali on left; Muhammad Ahmad on right
SAD.766/8/25,29
T.A. Leach's boat, 1908, L. to R.: Kheiri, Zubayr, Husain
SAD.766/8/26
Tagab
SAD.766/8/27
In Hannik cataract (Kheiri)
SAD.766/8/28
Husain (left) and Zubayr on boat
SAD.766/8/30,38
Nuri - S. Jabal
SAD.766/8/31
Distribution of dura to women in Omdurman by the Sirdar on the first day of Bairam 1324 (Nov 1906). In Khalifa's mosque - now a parade ground. Door leads into Mahdi's tomb
SAD.766/8/32
Boats on the Nile bank at Omdurman
SAD.766/8/33-35*
Camp at Kerreri, 1906
SAD.766/8/36
B. Evans and K. Cornwallis disembarking preparatory to sand grouse shoot the following morning
SAD.766/8/37
Jebelein or two hills of Nuri (from west bank)
SAD.766/8/39
Houses and sacks of dates at Mishakela
SAD.766/8/40
Land settlement officer's houseboat
SAD.766/8/41
L. to R.: `Umdah Faqir Ismai`il (deceased) and his son `Abbas (present `umdah)
SAD.766/8/42
Boy driving saqiyah
SAD.766/8/43
`Umdah Muhammad Abdullah Yaqub
SAD.766/8/45
Mikhail Efendi crossing side channel of the river at Habarab on an upturned anqarib
SAD.766/8/46
Outside office at Miseda
SAD.766/8/47
Camel policeman Muhammad `Ali and T.A. Leach's donkey
SAD.766/8/48
On Simit Island
SAD.766/8/49
Furling sail in high wind on the Nile
SAD.766/8/50
Land measurement in progress, Simit Island
SAD.766/8/51
A passing merchant's boat
SAD.766/8/52
Delgo: the markaz office and garden (from Inspector's house)
SAD.766/8/53
Delgo. L. to R.: Inspector's house, school, ma`mur's house, sub-ma`mur's house
SAD.766/8/54
Delgo markaz from riverside
SAD.766/8/55
Repairing saqiyah, Delgo; sub-ma`mur and ma`mur
SAD.766/8/56-57
Inspector's house, Delgo
SAD.766/8/58
Donkeys threshing barley
SAD.766/8/59-60
Football at Argo
SAD.766/8/61-62
Date census at Kabodi
SAD.766/8/63,65
Threshing barley
SAD.766/8/64
Girls fetching water from the river
SAD.766/8/66
Markaz, Kosha
SAD.766/8/67
Inspector's house, Kosha; Husain on right
SAD.766/8/68
An English officer's grave, Kosha
SAD.766/8/69
Sub-ma`mur Hasan Efendi Sarar(?) in front of the suq, Kosha
SAD.766/8/70
Shaikh Idris' house at Koyeka
SAD.766/8/71
Shaikh `Abbas al-Safi's house at Abri
SAD.766/8/72
`Umdah Wahba's house at Amara
SAD.766/8/73
Settlement of dispute in conclave at Adu
SAD.766/8/74
Outside office at Arneti
SAD.766/8/75
Battlefield of Firket
SAD.766/8/76
Ferry at Sonki
SAD.766/8/77
Akasha: rest house on left, gubba and mosque behind
SAD.766/8/78
Akasha: corner of mosque on left, fort on hill
SAD.766/8/79-80
Kulb
SAD.766/8/81
Philae
SAD.766/8/82
Aswan Dam (reservoir empty)
SAD.766/8/86
Sarras camp
SAD.766/8/87
Abu Simbel
SAD.766/8/88
Korosko
SAD.766/8/91
Khartoum express at Halfa camp station
SAD.766/8/92
Landing steps at Halfa
SAD.766/8/94-97
Opening of school at Abri
SAD.766/8/96
Boys lined up at school opening, Abri; ma`mur on left, sub-ma`mur centre back
SAD.766/8/97
Headmaster and ma`mur on steps of Abri school
SAD.766/8/98-99
Land settlement officer's court at Nuri
SAD.766/8/102
Group of notables at Abri. Front row, L. to R.: Sharif Muhammad (`umdah Koyeka), Sulaiman Sharif (`umdah Kosha), Muhammad Ahmad (Shaikh Irau), Ali Khalil (Shaikh Oskimoko), Badri (Shaikh Morka)
SAD.766/8/103
New boys at opening of school, Abri
SAD.766/8/104
L. to R.: Fu`ad Efendi, Mahir Efendi, Hilmi Efendi, Osman Efendi, Matawaki at opening of Abri school
SAD.766/8/105-106
Temple at Sulb
SAD.766/8/107
Professor Sayce at Sulb temple
SAD.766/8/108
Temple at Gubba Selim (Sedinga)
SAD.766/8/109-110
Delgo temple
SAD.766/8/111
Ruins of temple at Gubba Selim
SAD.766/8/113
Land settlement staff at Ginnis
SAD.766/8/115
Osman Efendi distributing land certificates at Arneti
SAD.766/8/116
Men of Arneti
SAD.766/8/117
Goats grazing at Gorgod
SAD.766/8/118
Gazelle lying where shot
SAD.766/8/119-120
Taking off dead gazelle on donkey
SAD.766/8/121
Vaccination
SAD.766/8/122
Muhammad and Husain (on left), sons of `umdah of Amara, with 2 other boys
SAD.766/8/123-124
Saqiyah
SAD.766/8/125
Husain with donkey
SAD.766/8/126-127
Dogs
SAD.766/8/128
Servants and crew on T.A. Leach's boat, 1909-1910
SAD.766/8/129
`Umdah Wahba Hasan of Amara in robe of honour, with son Hasan
SAD.766/8/130,132
Asha - mad woman from Kosha
SAD.766/8/131
Mahmud and Isma`il Berdawili of Arneti
SAD.766/8/133
The malik Zubayr's courtyard with saqiyah
SAD.766/8/134
Saqiyah, Halfa Province
SAD.766/8/135
The malik Zubayr, with son
SAD.766/8/136
Muhammad Sabi, boatman
SAD.766/8/137-138
Saqiyah
SAD.766/8/140
Water trough leading from saqiyah
SAD.766/8/141-142
Kuttab with schoolmaster at Arduan
SAD.766/8/143
Abdun, cook of the boat, at the rudder
SAD.766/8/144
Boy on raft with sail - used to fetch fodder across the river at Simit
SAD.766/8/145*
Pompei's column adjoining catacombs at Alexandria
SAD.766/8/147-148
Quayside
SAD.766/8/149-168*
Unidentified
SAD.766/8/169
Dabarossa (adjoining Halfa) at high Nile
SAD.766/8/170
Ashkeit
SAD.766/8/171-184
Loose photographs enclosed in album
SAD.766/8/171
General view of Halfa
SAD.766/8/172
Residential quarter, Halfa Camp. L. to R.: Governor's house, Inspector's house, railway rooms, Maccauley's house
SAD.766/8/173
River front and mudiriyyah, Halfa
SAD.766/8/174-177*
Unidentified
SAD.766/8/178
Halfa camp station (from the desert)
SAD.766/8/179
Geddi - starting off to work (`umdah 's house being rebuilt)
SAD.766/8/180
Governor's garden, Merowe
SAD.766/8/182
Jabal Firket and desert between Kerma and Geddi
SAD.766/8/183
Loiso's pump at Debeira
SAD.766/8/184
Gubba of Shaikh Idris at Koyeka
SAD.771/2/1-177
[c.1907 - 1915]
Album of photographs covering T.A. Leach's service as Deputy Inspector, Land Settlement Service in Halfa Province and Inspector Rufa`a, Blue Nile Province. Many of the photographs are repeated, without captions in albums SAD.766/8/1-184 and SAD.771/1/1-90. (* Denotes the existence of a duplicate)
SAD.771/2/1
Two photos in one:
(a) Abu Simbel in far distance across river
(b) Boundary between Egypt and Sudan on E. bank at Sarras
SAD.771/2/2
Loiso's pump at Debeira. The only wide piece of cultivable land in the province, about 16 miles north of Halfa
SAD.771/2/3
Ashkeit village, 12 miles north of Halfa, from the steamer
SAD.771/2/4
Dabarossa (adjoining Halfa) at high Nile, taken from the steamer. Two shadufs at work
SAD.771/2/5
General view of Halfa and Tewfikia. Governor's house to south, then railway and steamers and boats workshops, etc.
SAD.771/2/6
Mudiriyyah (with flags) and river-front at Tewfikia or Halfa town. Cook's boat lying a little to north
SAD.771/2/7
Governor's house, Inspector's house, railway rooms, Maccauley's house. Residential quarter, Halfa camp
SAD.771/2/8*
Governor's house and Inspector's house, Halfa, from the launch
SAD.771/2/9
4 railway rooms and Maccauley's house, Halfa camp
SAD.771/2/10
Desert behind Halfa camp looking north
SAD.771/2/11
Halfa camp station (from the desert)
SAD.771/2/12
South wall of Halfa camp (from outside)
SAD.771/2/13
South wall of Halfa camp and tennis court (from inside). Tennis courts being relaid. Looking south. Old wall and ruined barracks, many of which T.A. Leach had pulled down when Acting Governor. Lines of tennis court made of railway lines
SAD.771/2/14
Ghaffir at Halfa temple
SAD.771/2/15
Mosque, corner of railway rooms, back of Inspector's house, Halfa camp
SAD.771/2/16
Behen (Halfa temple). Head of hippopotamus, excavated
SAD.771/2/17
View across river from Halfa camp
SAD.771/2/18
Tulba of prisoners carrying T.A. Leach's and other luggage at Abu Hamed
SAD.771/2/19
Kareima, the dock yard of Dongola Province. First steamer is Kirbekan, the newest steamer on the reach. The other is Water Lily, the Governor's steamer
SAD.771/2/20
Merowe, from the river. Governor's house with white fencing
SAD.771/2/21
Khandaq markaz, Dongola Province
SAD.771/2/22
Dongola markaz
SAD.771/2/23
Village of Orbi, Dongola Province, a stopping place for Dongola steamer. Dura crop partially cut
SAD.771/2/24
Lime trees and date trees, garden of Jackson Pasha, Governor, at Merowe
SAD.771/2/25-26
Kerma
SAD.771/2/27
Desert between Kerma and Geddi, taken by moonlight
SAD.771/2/28-29
Football game at Argo
SAD.771/2/30-31
Date census at Kabodi
SAD.771/2/32
Jebelein or two hills of Nuri (from west bank, at Cosacona)
SAD.771/2/33-34
Nuri, S. Jabal
SAD.771/2/35
Outside office at Miseda
SAD.771/2/36
Land settlement officer's court at Nuri. Camel policeman in foreground. Registry clerk in tarboosh. Litigants before the Land Settlement Officer
SAD.771/2/37
Houses and sacks of dates at Mishakela
SAD.771/2/38
Geddi - starting off to work. House of the `umdah Muhammad Abdullah Yaqub being rebuilt
SAD.771/2/39
`Umdah, Faqir Isma`il (deceased) and his son `Abbas (present `umdah)
SAD.771/2/40
`Umdah Muhammad Abdullah Uaqub in front of his house at Geddi
SAD.771/2/41
Zubayr and T.A. Leach's donkey (Egyptian saddle)
SAD.771/2/42
Camel policeman Muhammad `Ali, with donkey
SAD.771/2/43
Taking boat through Hannik (third) Cataract
SAD.771/2/44
T.A. Leach's boat in 1908. L. to R. Kheiri, Zubayr and Husain
SAD.771/2/45
Ra`is taking boat through Hannik cataract
SAD.771/2/46
Getting up through Hannik cataract. L. to R. Muhammad Wali, Muhammad Ahmad
SAD.771/2/47
A passing merchant's boat
SAD.771/2/48
Husain and Zubayr on boat
SAD.771/2/49
Furling sail in high wind at Simit
SAD.771/2/50
Tagab
SAD.771/2/51
View from Abu Fatma looking into Dongola Province - low-lying rich land
SAD.771/2/52
View from Abu Fatma, looking into Halfa Province - all rock and barren
SAD.771/2/53
View looking north from hill just behind Tagab. Desolate country. River on right
SAD.771/2/54
The gubba of Abu Fatma
SAD.771/2/55
Middle of Hannik cataract
SAD.771/2/56-57
Land measurement in progress on Simit Island
SAD.771/2/58-64
Delgo
SAD.771/2/58
Inspector's house, school, ma`mur 's house, sub-ma`mur 's house, Delgo
SAD.771/2/59
Delgo markaz and garden, from Inspector's house
SAD.771/2/60
Inspector's house, Delgo
SAD.771/2/61
View from Inspector's house looking north. Row of 5 clerks' houses
SAD.771/2/62
Inspector's house, Delgo
SAD.771/2/63
Repairing saqiyah of markaz garden. L. to R. Sub-ma`mur (in tarboosh), runaway slave, sergeant of Egyptian police (in white), ma`mur
SAD.771/2/64
Delgo markaz from river side
SAD.771/2/65-68
Kosha
SAD.771/2/65
Inspector's house Kosha; Husain on right
SAD.771/2/66
Kosha markaz
SAD.771/2/67
An English officer's grave in foreground; clerks' houses in background
SAD.771/2/68
Sub-ma`mur Hasan Efendi Sarar in front of the suq
SAD.771/2/69
Shaikh Idris' house at Koyeka
SAD.771/2/70
Gubba of Shaikh Idris at Koyeka
SAD.771/2/71
`Umdah Wahba's house at Amara
SAD.771/2/72
Shaikh `Abbas al-Safi's house at Abri
SAD.771/2/73
Boy driving saqiyah
SAD.771/2/74
Arab boy at Kabodi
SAD.771/2/75
Mikhail Efendi crossing a side channel of the river at Habarab. Raft consists of an upturned `anqarib floated on pumpkins
SAD.771/2/76
Outside office at Arneti
SAD.771/2/77
Ferry at Sonki
SAD.771/2/78
Kulb
SAD.771/2/79
Battlefield at Firket
SAD.771/2/80
Akasha; corner of mosque, fort on hill
SAD.771/2/81
Sarras camp
SAD.771/2/82
Akasha; resthouse on left, gubba and mosque behind
SAD.771/2/83
Abu Simbel
SAD.771/2/84
Korosko
SAD.771/2/85
Aswan dam (reservoir empty)
SAD.771/2/86
Philae
SAD.771/2/87
Khartoum express at Halfa camp station
SAD.771/2/88
Landing steps at Halfa
SAD.771/2/89
Civil hospital Halfa
SAD.771/2/90
The P&O mailboat Isis or Osiris at Brindisi
SAD.771/2/91-97
Opening of school at Abri
SAD.771/2/93
Ma`mur and sub-ma`mur with boys
SAD.771/2/94
Headmaster and ma`mur on steps of school
SAD.771/2/95
New boys
SAD.771/2/96
Group of notables. L. to R. Sharif Muhammad (`umdah Koyeka), Sulaiman Sharif (`umdah Kosha), Muhammad Ahmad (Shaikh Irau), `Ali Khalil (Shaikh Oskimoko), Badri (Shaikh Morka)
SAD.771/2/97
L. to R.: Fu`ad Efendi, Mahir Efendi, Hilmi Efendi, Osman Efendi, Matawaki
SAD.771/2/98-99
Delgo temple
SAD.771/2/100
Remains of temple at Gubba Selim
SAD.771/2/101
Temple at Gubba Selim (Sadinga)
SAD.771/2/102
Professor Sayce at Sulb temple
SAD.771/2/103-104
Sulb temple
SAD.771/2/105
Land Settlement staff at Ginnis. Back row, L. to R.: Husain, Sa`d al-Din; middle row, L. to R.: `umdah of Ginnis, T.A. Leach, Osman Efendi, Hasan, petition writer; front row, L. to R.: Mahir Efendi, Shaikh of Ginnis, Hilmi Efendi
SAD.771/2/106
As above. Back row, L. to R.: `Abd al-Latif, Husain, Sa`d al-Din Idris; middle row, L. to R.: `umdah of Ginnis, Osman Efendi, Shaikh of Ginnis, Hasan Efendi, ?; front row, L. to R.: Mahir Efendi, Hilmi Efendi
SAD.771/2/107
Osman Efendi distributing land certificates at Arneti
SAD.771/2/108
Men of Arneti
SAD.771/2/109
Mahmud and Isma`il Berdawili of Arneti
SAD.771/2/110
`Umdah Wahba Hasan of Amara in robe of honour, with son Hasan
SAD.771/2/111-112
Asha - mad woman from Kosha
SAD.771/2/113
Servants and crew on T.A. Leach's boat, 1909-1910. L. to R.: Zubayr, Husain, Abdun, Hilal, Kheiri (ra`is), Muhammad Sabi
SAD.771/2/114
Husain with donkey
SAD.771/2/115
Taking off dead gazelle on donkey
SAD.771/2/116
Gazelle lying where shot
SAD.771/2/117
T.A. Leach's pet dog
SAD.771/2/119
Goats grazing at Gorgod
SAD.771/2/120-121
Saqiyah
SAD.771/2/122
Muhammad and Husain, sons of the `umdah of Amara, with two other boys
SAD.771/2/123
Water trough leading from saqiyah
SAD.771/2/124
Vaccination
SAD.771/2/125
Girls fetching water from the river
SAD.771/2/126
Boy on raft with sail - used to fetch fodder across the river at Simit
SAD.771/2/127-128
Kuttab with schoolmaster at Arduan
SAD.771/2/129-132
T.A. Leach's pet dogs
SAD.771/2/133
The malik Zubayr
SAD.771/2/134
Zubayr's courtyard with saqiyah
SAD.771/2/136
Abdun, cook of the boat, at the rudder
SAD.771/2/137
Muhammad Sabi, boatman
SAD.771/2/138*
Khalifa, camel policeman
SAD.771/2/139
Gravestone
SAD.771/2/140
Grave of C. Scott-Moncrieff
SAD.771/2/141-146
Unidentified
SAD.771/2/147*
Crowd around Sudanese band, Bairam celebrations, Wad Medani
SAD.771/2/148-156
Unidentified
SAD.771/2/157
Donkeys laden with hay
SAD.771/2/158
Cobb (P.W.D.), syce with donkey, Husain
SAD.771/2/159
Start of donkey race, Wad Medani
SAD.771/2/160
Philae
SAD.771/2/161
Aswan dam
SAD.771/2/162-169
Unidentified
SAD.771/2/170-171
Ferry
SAD.771/2/172
Schoolboys with teacher
SAD.771/2/173
Start of boys' race
SAD.771/2/174-177
Unidentified
SAD.771/1/1-90
[c.1912 - 1915]
Album of photographs covering T.A. Leach's service as Second Inspector, Rufa`a, Blue Nile Province. Many are unidentified and of poor quality and a number are repeated in album SAD.771/2/1-177. (* Denotes the existence of a duplicate):
SAD.771/1/1
Review of troops, gun carriage in foreground
SAD.771/1/3
Sports at Wad Medani
SAD.771/1/7
Ferry at El Eheima
SAD.771/1/8
Mud building
SAD.771/1/9
Camel Corps soldiers
SAD.771/1/14-16
Boys' school
SAD.771/1/19-22
Sports at Rufa`a school
SAD.771/1/23
Prize-giving at Rufa`a school
SAD.771/1/29
Donkeys carrying hay into market, Rufa`a
SAD.771/1/30,32*
T.A. Leach on steps of building, Rufa`a
SAD.771/1/34-35
Some of the 50 children of Muhammad Imam Habuba, Gezira
SAD.771/1/38,40
Philae
SAD.771/1/39
Aswan dam
SAD.771/1/41-44*
Bairam crowd at Wad Medani, including musicians
SAD.771/1/45*
Rufa`a mosque and minaret
SAD.771/1/47*
Panorama of Rufa`a looking N.E. from minaret; markaz and school
SAD.771/1/48*
Panorama of Rufa`a looking N.W. from minaret; the suq
SAD.771/1/49*
T.A. Leach's house and stable, Rufa`a
SAD.771/1/50*
Husain
SAD.771/1/51*
Laylah (dog) and 3 pups
SAD.771/1/52*
Syce with T.A. Leach's animals
SAD.771/1/59*
Nomad tent inside which T.A. Leach spent a day; Husain in doorway
SAD.771/1/60*
Family leaving village in search of dura
SAD.771/1/61
Part of diluka at Wad Medani (Bairam)
SAD.771/1/62-63*
Suq at Halawin
SAD.771/1/64*
Rufa`a football team at Wad Medani
SAD.771/1/65,67
Boys' football team
SAD.771/1/66*
“Piggy's” puppies
SAD.771/1/68-90
Unidentified
SAD.771/1/77-78
Supplies of grain
SAD.771/1/85
Game of golf
SAD.766/9/1-191
1916-1921
Album of photographs covering the Gallipoli campaign, Sollum and service in Kassala 1916-1918, Kordofan 1918-1921 and Red Sea 1921. Many of the captions were provided by a duplicate set of prints which in some cases are of superior quality. (* Denotes existence of duplicate):
SAD.766/9/1-2
Sailing ships
SAD.766/9/4
H.M.S. Dufferin
SAD.766/9/10
Back of Count Otto von Gumpferb on captured schooner
SAD.766/9/11
Sollum from the sea
SAD.766/9/12
View of Sollum from hill top
SAD.766/9/13-14
Buildings and tents at Sollum
SAD.766/9/16
Barrani
SAD.766/9/17
Alexandria harbour
SAD.766/9/18
Transport full of troops in Alexandria harbour, ready to sail
SAD.766/9/19
Hospital ship Rewa
SAD.766/9/23-24
Ships at Mudros
SAD.766/9/25-26
Headquarters ship at Mudros, R.M.S. Aragon, with fleet sweeper alongside
SAD.766/9/27
Ship in Mudros harbour
SAD.766/9/28
H.M.S. Swiftsure
SAD.766/9/29
Agamemnon or Lord Nelson
SAD.766/9/30
One of new armoured barges alongside quay at Mudros
SAD.766/9/31-33
Anzac
SAD.766/9/34
Dugouts at Anzac
SAD.766/9/35
Anzac from tug
SAD.766/9/36
Imbros [Imbroz]
SAD.766/9/37
W. beach
SAD.766/9/38
W. beach; Lancashire landing
SAD.766/9/39
French and English submarines, the Majestic and two hospital ships off entrance to Dardanelles
SAD.766/9/40
Knocked out Turkish gun at Sadd el Bahr [Seddülbahir]
SAD.766/9/41
Achi Baba(?) from Sadd el Bahr [Seddülbahir]
SAD.766/9/42
Achi Baba(?) from above w. beach
SAD.766/9/43
Senegalese tulba at Sadd el Bahr [Seddülbahir]
SAD.766/9/44
Sadd el Bahr [Seddülbahir] beach; SS Clyde
SAD.766/9/45-48*
Inspector's house, Kassala, 1917
SAD.766/9/49*
Front of mudiriyyah, Kassala
SAD.766/9/50*
Front of mess, Kassala
SAD.766/9/51*
Square in Morghania quarter, Kassala
SAD.766/9/52*
Simberiya storks
SAD.766/9/53-54*
Polo and golf; Jabal Kassala in background
SAD.766/9/55-56*
Two dead lions
SAD.766/9/57*
Crossing the Gash; view looking west
SAD.3766/9/58*
Prisoners making a bank in the Gash
SAD.766/9/59*
Jabal Kassala in cloud; view from the workshops
SAD.766/9/60
Bed of the Gash with Jabal Kassala in distance
SAD.766/9/61*
Boys working on new experimental farm, Kassala
SAD.766/9/62
T.A. Leach on horseback
SAD.766/9/63*
Bridge over channel, Kassala; dom palms in background
SAD.766/9/64
Mouth of Kassala irrigation canal looking upstream of Gash; end of Jabal Kassala in background
SAD.766/9/65
Branston at half-way tukls on road from Goz Regeb
SAD.766/9/66*
Holland, Innes and Natrun returning from hyena hunt; Jabal Kassala in background
SAD.766/9/67*
Natrun, Innes and T.A. Leach at Hofrat
SAD.766/9/68*
Holland, Natrun and Innes at Hofrat
SAD.766/9/69
Treasury offices at Asubri
SAD.768/9/70
Ma`mur, sub-ma`mur and `Umdah Yusuf Amara at Asubri
SAD.766/9/71-72
Flocks at waterhole in the Butana
SAD.766/9/73
Herd of she-camels in the Butana
SAD.766/9/74-76
Diluka at Tomat
SAD.766/9/77
"Nile" guage on the Atbara at Khashm el Girba
SAD.766/9/78
A.J. Matthew and F.C.C. Balfour at Gedaref
SAD.766/9/80*
Mule-drawn cart at El Obeid
SAD.766/9/81-82*
British officials with motor car at El Obeid, c.1918
SAD.766/9/83*
Sub-inspector's house, El Obeid; Husain and Ahmad in foreground
SAD.766/9/84*
The old tower at El Obeid; guard on treasury; mudiriyyah offices to right
SAD.766/9/85*
Girl carrying water
SAD.766/9/86*
Donkeys fetching water to a village about 5 miles away (Um Ruwaba District)
SAD.766/9/87*
Resthouse at village in Um Ruwaba District
SAD.766/9/88*
The mess fulah at El Obeid
SAD.766/9/89-91*
Meet of El Obeid harriers
SAD.766/9/92*
El Obeid harriers; Bridgman on horse
SAD.766/9/93*
Mosque and shops, El Obeid; auctioneer's shop on right foreground
SAD.766/9/94*
Mosque and square, El Obeid; milk sellers on right under wall
SAD.766/9/95*
Vegetable sellers in mosque square
SAD.766/9/96*
Start of small boys' race, King's Day 1919
SAD.766/9/97-98
King's Day crowds
SAD.766/9/99
Children in front of dwellings
SAD.766/9/100
Women and girls carrying pots
SAD.766/9/101-102*
Mad inmates of El Obeid prison
SAD.766/9/103*
Gubba at El Obeid and boys of local school
SAD.766/9/104,106*
Schoolboys, El Obeid
SAD.766/9/105*
Gubba, El Obeid
SAD.766/9/107*
Miss Jo Laing sketching to an audience in the suq, El Obeid
SAD.766/9/109
Miss J. Laing, Mr. Laing, T.A. Leach, M. Laing, Mrs. Lake
SAD.766/9/110
Back of Claxton, M. Laing, T.A. Leach, Lake, J. Laing
SAD.766/9/111*
J. Laing, Mrs. Lake, Miss J. Laing, Mr. Lake, Feb 1919
SAD.766/9/114
Speirs on horse, Sergt. Baxter, J. Laing, T.A. Leach, Maurice, Ellison, all on camels
SAD.766/9/115
Group of British officials in uniform
SAD.766/9/119
Pumpkins for sale
SAD.766/9/120
Horse-drawn tram
SAD.766/9/121
Osman and Muhammad Saleh
SAD.766/9/122*
T.A. Leach on horseback, El Obeid
SAD.766/9/124*
Syce Abdullah (a Fallata) with pony in T.A. Leach's hosh at El Obeid
SAD.766/9/125
T.A. Leach in horse-drawn trap
SAD.766/9/128-129*
Eric Hussey and T.A. Leach with Governor-General's car at Fulah Ayara on Nahud road
SAD.766/9/130-131*
Fulah Ayara
SAD.766/9/132*
Well-boring machine and prisoners at El Obeid
SAD.766/9/133*
100 prisoners on rope to pull well-boring machine
SAD.766/9/134-135
Giraffe
SAD.766/9/138*
Ahmad and Husain, El Obeid
SAD.766/9/139*
Camels carrying gum on the Nahud road
SAD.766/9/140-147*
Lord Allenby at El Obeid
SAD.766/9/144-145*
Camels with utfas
SAD.766/9/149*
Town fulah, El Obeid; grass huts on left and blacksmiths' shops
SAD.766/9/150*
Harriet and pups at Bara; large pillars of verandah in white
SAD.766/9/151*
Boyce with Buckingham on left
SAD.766/9/152-153*
Faragabeb(?) resthouse, on the road to Bara
SAD.766/9/154-155*
Dogs at Faragabeb(?) resthouse
SAD.766/9/156*
Forest's house with Osman; taken from gate N.E. of house
SAD.766/9/157*
Forest's house from S.E. The planks were subsequently put into the roof of the verandah
SAD.766/9/158*
Forest's house from S.W.
SAD.766/9/160-162*
Interior views of Forest's house
SAD.766/9/163
Osman and Muhammad Saleh
SAD.766/9/164*
Muhammad Saleh with dogs
SAD.766/9/165,167*
El Obeid hunt
SAD.766/9/166*
T.A. Leach with dogs
SAD.766/9/168*
Ratcliffe at Fertangul resthouse
SAD.766/9/169*
Suq at Hamadi
SAD.766/9/170*
Butcher at Hamadi suq
SAD.766/9/171*
Tailor at Hamadi suq
SAD.766/9/172*
Tebeldi tree, Kordofan
SAD.766/9/173*
Camel picnic, El Obeid: Sagar, Mrs. Sagar, Hussey, Sparling, Miss Ord, Mackenzie, Soutar
SAD.766/9/174*
Camel picnic. Soutar with camera; Sagar dark back
SAD.766/9/175*
Soutar with T.A. Leach's horse
SAD.766/9/176-178*
Man lowering water drawn from tebeldi tree
SAD.766/9/179*
Ladder up tebeldi tree to draw water
SAD.766/9/180*
Hamar boys with donkey for fetching water
SAD.766/9/181*
Hamar girl
SAD.766/9/182*
Nahud mosque
SAD.766/9/183*
Nahud town from minaret of mosque, looking east towards El Obeid
SAD.766/9/184-189
Erkowit, 1921
SAD.766/9/184*
Front of bungalow, with Jessie Leach and Osman
SAD.766/9/185
Jessie Leach by euphorbia trees
SAD.766/9/186*
T.A. Leach and Jessie Leach on horseback; bedroom door facing S.E. in background
SAD.766/9/187*
Jessie Leach with Abdullah (syce)
SAD.766/9/188*
Jessie Leach on horseback in front of house
SAD.766/9/189*
T.A. Leach on horseback
SAD.766/9/190*
T.A. Leach's office with flagstaffs; oleander bushes in bloom
SAD.766/9/191*
Mud house at Sinkat. Leaving at 8 a.m. for Erkowit. L. to R.: Jessie Leach, policeman, Osman, Husain, chauffeur
SAD.772/1/1-96
[c.1921-1924]
Album of photographs covering T.A. Leach's service in Red Sea Province, 1921 and as Governor Berber, 1921 - 1924. Many are unidentified. (* Denotes the existence of a duplicate):
SAD.772/1/1-3*
House at Port Sudan
SAD.772/1/5
T.A. Leach and Jessie Leach
SAD.772/1/7
T.A. Leach on steps of house, 1921
SAD.772/1/8
T.A. Leach and Jessie Leach, 1921
SAD.772/1/9*
View from T.A. Leach's house at Erkowit; south verandah. Jabal Erbab in distance. Offices to right of flagstaff
SAD.772/1/10*
Jessie Leach at Erkowit
SAD.772/1/11*
Jessie Leach and Omar Efendi returning from ibex shoot, 1921
SAD.772/1/12*
Hillside where T.A. Leach lay up on third day of shoot
SAD.772/1/13*
Muhammad Eira in a bush on the last day of ibex shoot
SAD.772/1/14*
The kill of the large ibex
SAD.772/1/15*
Beaters for ibex shoot; Muhammad Eira on extreme left
SAD.772/1/16*
Beaters for ibex shoot at Tabanka
SAD.772/1/17*
Jessie Leach and Baggelday(?) at Graham's point, looking over at Suakin
SAD.772/1/18*
Khedivial SS Dakhalieh (the ship on which the Laings went to Suez in 1919) and sunbuk from verandah of Governor's house, Suakin. Graham's point in background
SAD.772/1/19*
Fallata pilgrims at gate of quarantine camp, Suakin, waiting turn to enter
SAD.772/1/20-21*
Fallata pilgrims in quarantine camp, Suakin
SAD.772/1/23
C.P. Browne (brother-in-law of T.A. Leach)
SAD.772/1/24
Teaparty
SAD.772/1/25
Margaret Browne (sister of T.A. Leach), on horseback
SAD.772/1/26
Margaret Browne and C.P. Browne
SAD.772/1/29
Nile steamer
SAD.772/1/30
C.P. Browne on deck of boat
SAD.772/1/33,35*
Ghiassa on the Nile
SAD.772/1/38
Castro's cotton and waqil at Bawalid
SAD.772/1/39
Nile steamer Louise
SAD.772/1/40-41
Timber on banks of Nile
SAD.772/1/42
Gathering hay
SAD.772/1/43-51
External and internal views of house
SAD.722/1/53-54
Tea-party in garden
SAD.772/1/56-57
Boys' football team
SAD.772/1/59-61
Pyramids at Meroë
SAD.772/1/62*
Portrait of Ethiopian queen in chapel of her pyramid at Meroë
SAD.772/1/63-64
Antiquities at Meroë
SAD.772/1/65*
Unskilled labour clearing stairs down to burial chamber under pyramid at Meroë
SAD.772/1/67*
Dr. Reisner (with level) and D. Dunham at Meroë
SAD.772/1/68*
Meroë: skilled labour, (Egyptian in blue shirts) with unskilled helpers digging out graves
SAD.772/1/69*
Skeleton in tomb at Meroë. Unusual position and direction of body
SAD.772/1/70*
Skeleton in tomb at Meroë. Usual position of body, buried on an `anqarib
SAD.772/1/73*
Raising water from a well
SAD.772/1/75-79*
Halaib, 1923
SAD.772/1/83-92
On trek, Red Sea Hills
SAD.772/1/86*
Hamla in Khor Adarmo
SAD.772/1/89*
Orib: Muawin and shaikhs
SAD.772/1/93-94
Camp, with motor vehicles; with Lord Allenby to Kassala
SAD.772/2/1-62
[c. 1925-1927]
Album of photographs covering T.A. Leach's service as Governor Halfa. The majority are unidentified. (* Denotes the existence of a duplicate):
SAD.772/2/1-2
Jabal Kassala
SAD.772/2/3-5
Hyena hunt?
SAD.772/2/7
Abu Simbel
SAD.772/2/8
Saqiyah at Abu Simbel
SAD.772/2/9
T.A. Leach on rail trolley
SAD.772/2/10-23
Unidentified
SAD.772/2/24*
T.A. Leach with salt in hand at Selima salt field
SAD.772/2/25-28
Unidentified
SAD.772/2/29
`Uthman Diqnah, in old age
SAD.772/2/30-36
Unidentified
SAD.772/2/37
Back of house at Delgo
SAD.772/2/38
Aeroplane
SAD.772/2/39-41
French seaplane, Lieut. Guilbe and pilot
SAD.772/2/42-55
Unidentified
SAD.772/2/56-60
Trip to Jabal Kuror
SAD.A88/1-133
1919
Photograph album of Jessie Laing (later Mrs. T.A. Leach) covering her journey by sea and through Egypt to the Sudan, as well as Khartoum, Omdurman, El Obeid, Port Sudan, Jiddah and Port Said. Miss Laing's father had a business in Khartoum and El Obeid and both he and his wife feature in the photographs:
SAD.A88/1-3
1919 Jan
Passengers on board the City of Exeter, including Jessie Leach and Mr. Laing
SAD.A88/4
Mena House Hotel, Cairo
SAD.A88/5
Jessie Leach with her sister Margaret Laing at the pyramids
SAD.A88/6-7
Pyramids and sphinx
SAD.A88/8-12
Karnak
SAD.A88/13
Colossi of Thebes
SAD.A88/14-15
Ramasseum
SAD.A88/17
Bisharin children
SAD.A88/18-20
The Nile between Aswan and Wadi Halfa
SAD.A88/22-23
Property of J. Laing, Son & Co., Khartoum
SAD.A88/24
Gordon statue, Khartoum
SAD.A88/25-26
Servants Nur and Muhammad
SAD.A88/27
Jessie Leach on donkey in the suq at Khartoum
SAD.A88/28
Jessie Leach and Mr. Laing with pony and trap outside Gordon College
SAD.A88/30
Teaparty at the Sudan Club
SAD.A88/31
Jessie Leach and B.C. (?)
SAD.A88/32
Ostrich
SAD.A88/33-37
At the races, Khartoum
SAD.A88/38-43
Picnic in a sandstorm at Gordon's tree, including Jessie Leach and Margaret Laing
SAD.A88/45
Jessie Leach and Margaret Laing on horseback
SAD.A88/46
Bridge at Khartoum
SAD.A88/47
Jessie Leach and E.H. (?)
SAD.A88/48
Building at Khartoum nicknamed the "Yellow Peril"
SAD.A88/49
Capt. Pendaris, Mr. Bridgman, Capt. Walker, Mr. "Sparks" (?)
SAD.A88/50,52
R.A.L. (?), Mr. Laing, Jessie Leach, Mr. S. (?), Mrs. Laing, Capt. W. (?)
SAD.A88/53
Girls' school, Omdurman, with Miss Jackson
SAD.A88/54
Margaret Laing on horseback
SAD.A88/55
Lady Stack presenting polo cup
SAD.A88/56
Mr. & Mrs. Lake
SAD.A88/57
Mrs. Laing, Mr. Kirby, Margaret Laing, Mr. Norton, Capt. Walker, Jessie Leach, Capt. Pendaris, Mr. Smith
SAD.A88/58
Ruins of Mahdi's tomb, Omdurman
SAD.A88/59
Ruins of Khedive's Palace, Omdurman
SAD.A88/60-62
On the train for El Obeid
SAD.A88/65-73
At El Obeid
SAD.A88/74-75
Party outside gum picking sheds, El Obeid, including Jessie Leach and Mr. and Mrs. Laing
SAD.A88/76
Gum pickers, El Obeid
SAD.A88/77-79
Gum market, El Obeid
SAD.A88/80-81
Capt. Speirs
SAD.A88/82
Capt. Speirs with Margaret Laing, on horseback
SAD.A88/83
The Palace, Khartoum
SAD.A88/84
Fort, El Obeid
SAD.A88/85
Tebeldi tree
SAD.A88/86-87
Camel picnic, El Obeid
SAD.A88/88
Gubba, El Obeid
SAD.A88/89
Female prisoner at El Obeid prison
SAD.A88/91
Watering goats
SAD.A88/92
Jessie Leach and Mrs. Laing with notables
SAD.A88/93-94
Warthog
SAD.A88/95-97
Polo at El Obeid
SAD.A88/98-100
Spectators at polo match
SAD.A88/101
Mr. Mahaffy on donkey
SAD.A88/102
Post cart at El Obeid
SAD.A88/103
Jessie Leach and Mrs. Laing in group
SAD.A88/104
Mr. Palmer, Maj. White, Col. Vandeleur, Capt. Maurice, Capt. Speirs, Mr. Meade and Mr. Redmond
SAD.A88/105-108
Port Sudan
SAD.A88/109-112
Jiddah
SAD.A88/113
Ships in the Suez Canal
SAD.A88/114
Col. and Mrs. Smith with children at Port Said
SAD.A88/115
Capt. and Mrs. Heriot Hill with child and Jessie Leach at Port Said
SAD.A88/116-118
Passengers on the Mahia
SAD.A88/119-121
Sports on the Mahia
SAD.A88/122-128
Gum market, El Obeid
SAD.A88/129
Laing family at Khartoum
SAD.A88/130-132
Garden at Khartoum
(ii) Egypt
SAD.773/1/1-175
[c.1900-1910]
Album of photographs, chiefly of sites of antiquities in Egypt, all of them unidentified, but including the pyramids and the sphinxes. There are also street scenes, possibly in Cairo and numerous views of the Nile including the Aswan dam (completed 1902 - SAD.773/1/129-136) and Philae (SAD.773/1/142-144). Photographs SAD.773/1/1-14 and SAD.773/1/145-153 were obviously taken in Europe. Enclosed in the album are a number of loose photographs, again chiefly of sites in Egypt but including also 4 large group photographs of workers employed by James Laing and Son Co., El Obeid (SAD.773/1/172-175)
(b) Loose Photographs
(i) Khartoum Province, 1906
SAD.773/2/1-7
1906
Photographs taken at Kerreri and Omdurman:
SAD.773/2/1
T.A. Leach on horseback, attended by Bakhit, outside the Mahdi's house looking north towards the Khalifa's wall
SAD.773/2/2
T.A. Leach on horseback is part of the hosh of the Mahdi's house; servants' quarters in background
SAD.773/2/3
B. Evans and T.A. Leach on sandgrouse expedition, embarking for home. Zubayr in foreground (See also album SAD.766/8/1-184)
SAD.773/2/4
Hosh of Mahdi's house. A.M.A.'s luggage for sandgrouse expedition
SAD.773/2/5
T.A. Leach on horse in club garden, with syce Bakhit
SAD.773/2/6
Mustafa Zubayr on the rakuba or verandah of the Mahdi's house. Earthen water pots in background
SAD.773/2/7
Mustafa Zubayr in the hosh of the Mahdi's house, beside post of gallows
(ii) Blue Nile Province, 1916
SAD.773/2/8-11
1916 Jan
Photographs of T.A. Leach leaving Rufa`a
(ii) Kassala, 1917, 1924
SAD.773/4/1
1917 Apr
T.A. Leach and F.C.C. Balfour at Kassala
SAD.773/4/2-3
1924 Jan
H.E. the High Commissioner's camp at Goz Regeb
(iv) Kordofan, 1918 - 1920
SAD.773/3/1
Slave girls dancing at Wad Medani
SAD.773/3/2-3
T.A. Leach with dogs, El Obeid c.1919
SAD.773/3/4
1919
Worsley, Sergt. Beaton, Ellison, Brett, T.A. Leach and Harrison at El Obeid
SAD.773/3/5-6
1919
T.A. Leach, H. Grierson, Worsley, Soutar and Ellison playing golf at El Obeid
(v) Red Sea Province, 1921
SAD.773/3/7
T.A. Leach and Jessie Leach outside house at Erkowit
SAD.773/3/8
Unfinished tomb of Sayyid Hasan, grandfather of Sayyid `Ali and Sayyid Ahmad Mirghani at Khatmiya
SAD.773/3/9
Mosque at Khatmiya, destroyed by Dervishes
SAD.773/3/10
Flood outside gate of Inspector's house, on the way to the Mess
SAD.773/3/11-12
Views of Jabal Kassala
SAD.773/3/13
T.A. Leach, Holland and Innes at Hofra
SAD.773/3/14
Dog Laylah
(vi) Berber Province
SAD.773/3/15
The khor at Zeidab
SAD.773/3/16
T.A. Leach and Richards after emerging from gold mine at Oyo
(vii) Halfa province, 1925 - 1927
SAD.773/4/4
1925 Feb 2
Agricultural show at Wadi Halfa; T.A. Leach inspecting ponies, donkeys and camels
SAD.773/4/5-14
1925 Mar 16
Visit of Sir Geoffry Archer, the Governor-General to Halfa
SAD.773/4/15
Sparling and Mrs. McE.(?) outside gates of governor's house, Halfa
SAD.773/4/16
T.A. Leach judging camels with Capt. Sparling the vet
SAD.773/4/17
1926 Mar 15
Servants outside governor's house, Halfa
SAD.773/4/18
Khor Musa Pasha fort; J.B. (?) and Branston in foreground
SAD.773/4/19
Inside of Khor Musa Pasha fort
SAD.773/4/20
The Cairo-Kano flight at Wadi Halfa
SAD.773/4/21-24
Guests at a football match
(viii) Egypt
SAD.773/5/1
Boats moored at the river bank opposite Philae
(ix) Personal
SAD.773/5/2-3
Photographs of T.A. Leach
SAD.773/5/4
Passengers playing skittles on Bibby boat
(x) P.R.O. Photographs
SAD.773/5/5-8
1952
P.R.O. photographs of the opening of Ahfad Secondary School (enclosed in letter to T.A. Leach from Shaikh Babikr Badri. See under Personal Papers SAD.208/5/41-52 above):
SAD.773/5/5
Cutting of the tape by Sayyid `Abd al-Rahman al-Mahdi. Standing to his left is Shaikh Babikr Badri and to his right `Abd al-Rahman `Ali Taha, Minster of Education
SAD.773/5/6
Guests sitting for tea outside the main entrance, including `Abd al-Rahman `Ali Taha, Sayyid `Abd al-Rahman al-Mahdi, G. Contomichalos and N.R. Udal
SAD.773/5/7
The school mosque
SAD.773/5/8
Library and part of the west wing
(xi) Unidentified
SAD.773/5/9-11
Nile views
SAD.773/5/12
Two bi-planes on landing site
SAD.773/5/13-14
Landscapes
(c) Lantern Slides
SAD.774/1/1-51
Lantern slides used by T.A. Leach to illustrate his lectures on the Sudan. A list can be found with his lecture notes at SAD.208/8/59. All are repeated in the albums.
SAD.741/1/1
`Uthman Diqnah in old age
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Lantern slides
SAD.774/1/2
Map of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (cracked)
SAD.774/1/3
Saqiyah at Abu Simbel (cracked)
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Lantern slides
SAD.774/1/4
Train at Wadi Halfa
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Lantern slides
SAD.774/1/5
Loaded camel getting to its feet
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Lantern slides
SAD.774/1/6
Zubayr and Husain on T.A. Leach's boat
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Lantern slides
SAD.774/1/7
Furling sail in wind
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Lantern slides
SAD.774/1/8
Berber Province steamer
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Lantern slides
SAD.774/1/9
Date trees near Halfa
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Lantern slides
SAD.774/1/10
Land settlement officer at work
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Lantern slides
SAD.774/1/11
Group of men at Sulb
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Lantern slides
SAD.774/1/12
J. Bramly in car in the desert
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Lantern slides
SAD.774/1/13
Camel's bones, Darb al-Arbain
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Lantern slides
SAD.774/1/14
Jabal Magdud (cracked)
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Lantern slides
SAD.774/1/15
Hole in the rock, Jabal Magdud (cracked)
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Lantern slides
SAD.774/1/16
Working camels at Selima oasis (cracked)
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Lantern slides
SAD.774/1/17
Selima salt field (cracked)
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Lantern slides
SAD.774/1/18
Kuttab (cracked)
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Lantern slides
SAD.774/1/19
Boys of Rufa`a school
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Lantern slides
SAD.774/1/20
Two boys' football teams - Rufa`a and ?
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Lantern slides
SAD.774/1/21
Ferry
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Lantern slides
SAD.774/1/22
Group of men at Rufa`a (cracked)
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Lantern slides
SAD.774/1/23
Rufa`a town
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Lantern slides
SAD.774/1/24
Bisharin men buying a camel in Rufa`a
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Lantern slides
SAD.774/1/25
Tukls in the Gezira. Villagers leaving in search of food
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Lantern slides
SAD.774/1/26
Sowing seed
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Lantern slides
SAD.774/1/27
Boys weeding crops
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Lantern slides
SAD.774/1/28
Donkeys threshing
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Lantern slides
SAD.774/1/29
Donkeys laden with hay (cracked)
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Lantern slides
SAD.774/1/30
Governor, Col. Dickinson on tour
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Lantern slides
SAD.774/1/31
Four Blue Nile Province camel police
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Lantern slides
SAD.774/1/32
Tebeldi tree (cracked)
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Lantern slides
SAD.774/1/33
Drawing water from a tebeldi tree
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Lantern slides
SAD.774/1/34
Sheep
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Lantern slides
SAD.774/1/35-36
El Obeid harriers
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Lantern slides
SAD.774/1/37
Golf links, Jabal Kassala in background
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Lantern slides
SAD.774/1/38
Hyena hunt
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Lantern slides
SAD.774/1/39-40
Dead lions
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Lantern slides
SAD.774/1/41
Hadendowa men
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Lantern slides
SAD.774/1/42
Governor's house at Erkowit
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Lantern slides
SAD.774/1/43
On trek. Camel Police with flags
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Lantern slides
SAD.774/1/44
Hamla
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Lantern slides
SAD.774/1/45
Stop for rest on the road
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Lantern slides
SAD.774/1/46
Breaking up camp
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Lantern slides
SAD.774/1/47
Guard of honour (cracked)
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Lantern slides
SAD.774/1/48
Aeroplane
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Lantern slides
SAD.774/1/49
Two aeroplane taking off (cracked)
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Lantern slides
SAD.774/1/50
Women carrying water in earth pots
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Lantern slides
SAD.774/1/51
Group of men standing and women seated
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Lantern slides
5. Miscellanea
SAD.770/2/1-2
Rough glossary of Arabic terms with translations and note of area where the words are in common use
Language: Arabic, English
SAD.770/2/3-4
1950 May 19
Order of Service for a memorial service for James Douglas Craig, former Deputy Civil Secretary, Sudan Government
SAD.724/16/1-13
1953
Sudan calendar, containing the following photographs:
SAD.724/16/2
University College of Khartoum (J.F.E. Bloss)
SAD.724/16/3
Railway workshops, Atbara (P.R.O.)
SAD.724/16/4
Sunset, Blue Nile bridge, Khartoum (J.F.E. Bloss)
SAD.724/16/5
The quays, Port Sudan (J.F.E. Bloss)
SAD.724/16/6
Caravanserie, Suakin (D.H. Matthews)
SAD.724/16/7
Grading cotton (J.F.E. Bloss)
SAD.724/16/8
Watering cattle (J.F.E. Bloss)
SAD.724/16/9
Leopard (E.H. Nightingale)
SAD.724/16/10
Sunset, Lake Ambadi (J.F.E. Bloss)
SAD.724/16/11
Elephant (E.H. Nightingale)
SAD.724/16/12
R. Kidepo and Dongotona Mountains (J.F.E. Bloss)
SAD.724/16/13
Khartoum airport (G.V.S. Davey)
SAD.770/2/5-8
1958 Jan 27
Order of service for a service of thanksgiving in memory of Bishop Llewellyn Gwynne, Bishop of Khartoum 1908-1920, Bishop in Egypt and the Sudan 1920 - 1945 and Bishop in Egypt 1945-1946
SAD.770/2/9-12
1960 May 14
Programme for the unveiling of the Gordon statue at Gordon Boys' School
6. Maps
SAD.770/2/13
1900
Africa series: Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, sheet 45-A, Dongola (on linen, partly eaten)
Intelligence Division, War Office
scale:   1 to 250,000
Size: 59 x 78 cm.
SAD.770/2/14
1901
Africa series: Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, sheet 35-M, Kosha (on linen, partly eaten)
Intelligence Division, War Office
scale:   1 to 250,000
Size: 59 x 78 cm.
7. Newspaper Cuttings
SAD.770/3/1
1909 Mar 25
“The ancient temple of Amon at Meroë”, by Professor A.H. Sayce, from The Times
SAD.770/3/2
[1924 Aug]
Photographs of rioters at Atbara and British troops embarking at an eastern port for Khartoum to deal with rioting of Egyptian troops there
SAD.770/3/3
1929 Jul 27
“The resignation of Lord Lloyd”, from The Times
SAD.770/3/4-7
1931 Jan 5
“The Libyan Desert”, two articles by Maj. R.A. Bagnold describing an expedition by motor-car across the eastern part of the Libyan Desert, with photographs, from The Times
SAD.770/3/8
1948 Dec 15
“Franchise in the Sudan. First meeting of the Khartoum assembly”, from The Times
SAD.770/3/9
1954 Jan 4
Photograph of Isma`il el Azhari talking to Shaikh Babikr Badri, from The Times
SAD.770/3/10
1960 May 16
Photograph of the unveiling of the statue of General Gordon brought from Khartoum to Gordon Boys' School, Woking, from The Times
SAD.770/3/11
1960 Aug 6
Review by the Bishop of Southwell of H.C. Jackson's Pastor on the Nile. A memoir of Bishop Ll. H. Gwynne, from Time and Tide
SAD.770/3/12
[1961]
Review of the career of Sir Thomas Creed (Legal Secretary, Sudan Government 1941-47), from The Sudan Diocesan Review
SAD.770/3/13-20
1946-1955
Obituaries:
SAD.770/3/13
1946 Jun 11
Lady Wingate
SAD.770/3/14
1949 May 9
Lieut. Col. W.H. Besant
SAD.770/3/15-16
1950 May 15
J.D. Craig, formerly Deputy Civil Secretary (1926-1929), from The Times
SAD.770/3/17
1953 Feb 3
Sir Reginald Wingate, from The Times
SAD.770/3/18-19
1954 Jul 9
Shaikh Babikr Badri, from The Times
SAD.770/3/20
1955 Sep 27
R.K. Winter, from The Times
SAD.770/3/21-27
1931
Reports on lectures given by T.A. Leach and Maj. A.G. Church on the Sudan to the Rotary Club and the Royal Empire Society
8. Museum Objects
SAD.208/9/1
1922
Table cloth embroidered by the children of Atbara school for T.A. Leach to commemorate King's Day
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Objects

Digitised material for SAD.208/9/1 - Table cloth embroidered by the children of Atbara school - 1922
SAD.770/4/1-8
1899 - c.1910
Province and other badges:
SAD.770/4/1
Letters SCS (Sudan Civil Service) with the date 1899 (brass)
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Objects
SAD.770/4/2
Blue Nile Province. Two loads of cattle in silver, surmonted by the letters B.N.P. in brass
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Objects
SAD.770/4/3
Khartoum. Head of elephant, gold plated
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Objects
SAD.770/4/4
Kordofan? Letter K surrounded by leaves (brass)
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Objects
SAD.770/4/5
Berber Province. Camel with rifle and the letters BP
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Objects
SAD.770/4/6
Dongola Province? Palm tree with sailing boats
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Objects
SAD.770/4/7
Kassala or Red Sea Province? Head of ibex
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Objects
SAD.770/4/8
Kassala. Crossed throwing knives with the name Kassala in Arabic
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Objects
9. Printed Material
SAD.770/5/1-8
6 November 1913
The Manchester Guardian, Sudan number
SAD.770/5/9
1 December 1931
Bristol Branch Royal Empire Society year book, including an account of T.A. Leach's lectures to the society
SAD.770/5/10-13
22 May 1964
The Times supplement on the Republic of the Sudan
Separated printed material now in Durham University Library
Printed material deposited with collection; now integrated into the library's printed collections and catalogued on the Open Public Access Catalogue


Ahfad School Omdurman (Sudan) (Khartoum [1948?])
Despatch from the Governor-General of the Sudan to the Secretary-General of the League of Nations relating to slavery in the Sudan Sudan no.1 (1927) Cmd. 2872 (H.M.S.O., 1927)
Leach, T.A., “Date trees in Halfa Province” from Sudan notes and records v.2 no.2 (Cairo, 1919) (dupl.)
Leach, T.A., “The Selima Oasis”, from Sudan notes and records Dec 1926 (2 dupl. copies)
The Sudan Diocesan Review no.27 v.10; no.30 v.11 (2v) (1957, 1958)
Quarterly list of the Sudan Government showing appointments and stations for the quarter beginning 1st July 1927 (dupl.) (Khartoum, 1927)
Quarterly list of the Sudan Government showing appointments and stations for the quarter beginning 1st October 1927 (Khartoum, 1927)
Supplement to the handbook of the Sudan (July, 1899), ed. by Maj. Count Gleichen (H.M.S.O. London, 1899)