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Buchanans (Orchard Close)

  • HOU-HOU/9
  • Series
  • 1977 - 2011
  • Part of Houses

This series focuses on the boarding girls in Orchard Close (built in 1929), later Buchanans House. It became a girls' boarding house in early October 1975 and Michael Stevens was its first Housemaster. It was renamed Buchanans House in Summer 1977, following the retirement of Headmaster J.D. Buchanan. Work was completed on Buchanans house in 1982 and the extension was ready for occupation in January 1983. The house was first a Seventh Form house and transitioned to a Middle School house in the 1980s.

Brian and Elizabeth Nicholls

Hambleton

  • HOU-HOU/16
  • Series
  • 1997 - 2019
  • Part of Houses

This series focuses on the Day girls' house of Hambleton, founded in 1997. The main items are informal photographs of house events and house diaries, planning and detailing the house routine throughout the years.

Oakham School

House diaries

  • HOU-HOU/16-HOU/16/2
  • Sub-Series
  • 1997 - 2014
  • Part of Houses

This sub-series focuses on Hambleton house diaries since its opening in 1997. Each house diary gives details of the everyday routine in Hambleton house and life of the girls in house and at school.

Gill Dixon

Administration

  • HOU-HOU/16-HOU/16/1
  • Sub-Series
  • 1997 - 2019
  • Part of Houses

This sub-series focuses on the everyday running of Hambleton House. It contains reviews of the terms and the girls' achievements, as well as house accounts.

Oakham School