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A provisional agenda for the HMC Coeducational Group Meeting at the Caversham Hotel, Reading on 28/02/1991

Four photographs of five people posing in front of the new Peter Collins organ in the School Chapel. They are (L to R): Peter Collins (Builder), David Woodcock (Head of Music), Peter Hurford (Organist), Graham Smallbone (Headmaster) and Simon Schanschieff (Chairman of the Trustees). The photographs are all slightly different (A to D).

A photograph of the donors and their families at the dedication of the ciboria (A). A photocopy of the photograph with names (B).

This file focuses on the dedication of the ciboria and the donors.

Photographs in colour and black and white of the construction of the Merton builing, the opening and pupils walking, including 1 negative

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.