A photograph of Lt Col Maxwell Heron ('74) inspecting Oakham School R.A.F. cadets in 1999 at the opening of the new C.C.F. Headquarters.

A photograph of Lt Col Maxwell Heron ('74) inspecting Oakham School R.A.F. cadets in 1999 at the opening of the new C.C.F. Headquarters.

A photograph of Lt Col Maxwell Heron ('74) inspecting Oakham School R.A.F. cadets in 1999 at the opening of the new C.C.F. Headquarters.

An invitation to the opening of the Faculty of Social Sciences on 09 September 2017 sent to Brian Needham.

A collection of documents, chiefly photographs, of the day house Johnsons.
In 1972, the first purpose-built house for Day boys emerged to the west of the Ashburton Dining Hall. It was made of a large assembly hall-cum-classrooms, a study for the Housemaster, changing rooms with showers and a series of studies for the boys. It came into use in Spring term 1972. In 1973, the Day girls of Talbots House moved in upstairs of the Johnsons Day boys.

A newspaper cutting from The Independent reporting on letters revealing a previously unknown male love of Oscar Wilde, and on the debate concerning the frescoes in Old School. Hand-written note from Rod Smith to Graham Smallbone at the bottom of the article.

Three photographs of a girl and a boy sitting outside College House and the Chapel, taken for Marketing purposes in the 1990s.

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.

Wooden model of the Biology building at Oakham School provided by the architect T.E. Wilson on a 1:200 scale; plastic lid can be taken off.

Newspaper cutting reporting on the debate concerning the frescoes in Old School and the decision to conceal them behind shutters to allow viewing.