A photograph in colour of a new staff room in the Merton Building.

A photograph of the Ashburton building in the 1990s.

A photograph of the Haywood Building, now the Ashburton, in the 1980s.

A photograph of the Haywood Building, now the Ashburton, in the 1980s.

A photograph of the Haywood Building (foreground) and the Ashburton Dining Hall (background), probably in the 1960s. Number of print stamped on the back: 147835.

A photograph of the Haywood Building, now the Ashburton building.

A photograph of the Johnsons building, Faculty of Social Sciences on 27 May 2017.

This sub-series focusses on the Ashburton building, formerly the Haywood building.
Colonel Thomas Haywood, Chairman of the Trustees, laid the foundation stone of a new building, which was to bear his name, on 13th June 1964. The architects of this new academic building were F.J. Lenton & Partners. It came to use in September 1965 and was officially opened by Group Captain Douglas Bader. It housed the Geography and Modern Languages Departments. It comprised nine classrooms and the Jerwood Hall in the basement, which was equipped as a lecture hall, cinema and television room. In 1978, a new extension to the Haywood Building saw the addition of six classrooms and ancillary rooms to the Modern Languages, Geography and Audio Visual Aids Departments. The Haywood building on Church Street was extended in 1984. It was renamed 'Ashburton' in 1989 and now houses the Modern Foreign Languages and Classics departments.

This sub-series focusses on the Merton building, erected on the site of the old Ashburton Dining Hall. It was in use on the first day of the 1991 Winter term and the official opening ceremony took place on 26 November. Michael McCrum, former Trustee and Master of Corpus Christi, Cambridge, opened the new block. It comprised “spacious corridors, staff rooms for each subjects and twenty-four comfortable and acoustically effective classrooms”. The building was named after OO Thomas Merton (‘32). The Headmaster, Graham Smallbone, planted a tree outside the entrance to commemorate the 450th anniversary of the Diocese of Peterborough. This new building houses the English, Maths and History Departments.

Three negatives of seven photographs of the Merton Building and three of the Ashburton Building, probably in the 1990s.