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Brian and Elizabeth Nicholls Michael Stevens Series
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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

Chapmans (Junior House)

  • HOU-HOU/7
  • Series
  • 1911 - 2010
  • Part of Houses

This series focuses on the Junior House/Chapmans pupils and staff since its opening in 1910. It first comprised the Junior Department with facilities for boys boarders and classrooms. The house was renamed Chapmans in September 1960, after Frank Emerson Chapman, first Housemaster of the Junior House; it became a Senior House. Most of the series is made of photographs, house photographs as well as more informal photographs.

Brian and Elizabeth Nicholls

Johnsons

  • HOU-HOU/6
  • Series
  • 1959 - 1997
  • Part of Houses

This series focuses on the Day boys' house of Johnsons, throughout its history (1959-1997). The collection is mostly made of house photographs and teams' photographs, as well as some administrative records.

Oakham School

Photographs

  • STF-STF/9
  • Series
  • 1891 - 2002
  • Part of Staff

This series focusses on photographs of teaching and support staff throughout the years. The bulk of the collection is individual photographs of staff from the 1990s.

Oakham School