This file relates to various School trips to the amusement park Alton Towers between 1999 and 2001.

A letter from Jan West to Alton Towers Booking Office regarding the number of pupils visiting Alton Towers on 21 May 2000 and the cost of tickets.

The itinerary of the boarding and day houses' trip to Alton Towers on 16 May 1999, sent by Jan West to houses to be announced and displayed.

A letter from Alton Towers Advance Sales to Jan West confirming the booking and ticket costs for 21 May 2000.

An invoice from Alton Towers for Oakham School visit's to the amusement park on 21 May 2000.

A note from Jan West to Alton Towers Booking Office confirming the costs and number of pupils and staff visiting the amusement park on 16 May 1999.

A 'For your information' sheet from Alton Towers providing safety guidelines and park regulations during a visit.

A letter from Jan West to Parents informing them of a Middle School trip to Alton Towers on 20 May 2001.

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 College House, the pupils who lived there and the history of the building.
College House was built c.1320 and used to be a priest’s house for clergy sent to the town by Westminster Abbey. Oakham School bought College House from the Church in 1736. It served as the school’s Sanatorium until 1965, when College House was then converted into a boarding house for a dozen potential Oxbridge candidates.
In 1971, College House became the first girls’ boarding house. In 1982, it was converted to be used as a Seventh Form Study Centre.
Since 2007 College House has been converted into offices. The Foundation and Marketing moved in and the Senior Deputy Heads use the wing as their private residence. The Barber Rooms, housing the School Archives, opened in 2010 on the first floor and the Old Oakhamian Club is now on the ground floor.