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Angela Rumbold

  • STF-STF/9-STF/9/4-STF/9/4/5
  • Sub-File
  • c.1990
  • Part of Staff

This sub-file contains photographs of Angela Rumbold's visit on Speech Day in the 1990s.

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Angela Rumbold observing lessons

  • STF-STF/9-STF/9/4-STF/9/4/5-STF/9/4/5/5
  • Item
  • c.1990
  • Part of Staff

Four photographs (A to D) of Angela Rumbold observing various lessons and talking to pupils.

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Architecture

This file focusses on architects' reports regarding the refurbishment of Old School in the late 1980s-early 1990s.

Bond & Read

Ashburton building (Haywood building)

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.

Photo-Reportage Ltd

Buildings and Estates

  • BES
  • Subfonds
  • 1802 - 2020

A collection which focuses on the history of the school campus and buildings. There is an excellent photographic record of the school campus including the development of both houses and teaching buildings.

The collection contains architectural plans for buildings and press releases/ photographs of the opening of new additions to the school campus.

This sub-fonds contains general policy documents more relevant to the estates and IT daily functions.

The three series divide this sub-fonds amongst buildings, campus services, and IT.

Oakham School

Merton building

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.

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Photographs

This file contains various photographs of the Ashburton building, formerly the Haywood building on Church Street, throughout the years.

L.R. Shipsides

Photographs

This file contains various photographs of the Merton building on Church Street, since its construction in 1990.

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