This collection contains material relating to the history of the houses and their pupils. Each series is focused on a different house and many contain rich and detailed photographic records of houses year by year. Some houses are more detailed than others.

Other highlights of this collection include house handbooks, which help to induct a pupil into a house and its daily routine; photographs of daily life, including house events and leisure time; and administrative documents such as house diaries which record the calendar of house events, achievements of pupils, and accounts of incidents.

Included in this sub-fonds are houses which are no longer in existence such as Johnsons and Ruddles.

This series relates to Junior Day girls of Ancaster. The house was built in 1974, as part of the new Jerwoods Campus for the Lower School. Most of the collection is made of the House photographs since the first year of Ancaster, as well as informal photograph of the girls in house events and sports competition.

This sub-series focuses on photographs of the Junior Day girls of Ancaster House from its opening in 1974. This sub-series contains all the photographs from 1974 to 2005.

A photograph of the Day Girls in Ancaster in the academic year 1974-1975 under the Housemistress Anne Propert-Williams.

A photograph of the Day Girls in Ancaster in the academic year 1983-1984 under the Housemistress Anne Propert-Williams.

A photograph of the Day Girls in Ancaster in the academic year 1984-1985 under the Housemistress Anne Propert-Williams.

A photograph of the Day Girls in Ancaster in the academic year 1985-1986 under the Housemistress Anne Propert-Williams.

A photograph of the Day Girls in Ancaster in the academic year 1986-1987 under the Housemistress Anne Propert-Williams.

A photograph of the Day Girls in Ancaster in the academic year 1987-1988 under the Housemistress Margaret Cousins.

A photograph of the Day Girls in Ancaster in the academic year 1988-1989 under the Housemistress Margaret Cousins.