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Roger Blackmore
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A note from Roger Blackmore

A note from Roger Blackmore regarding security arrangements for the Medical Congress held at School, and hand-written reply from Estates.

Roger Blackmore

Buildings

This series is related to the buildings on the School campus and documents their history. Most of the collection is made of photographs and artwork, as well as architectural plans. Each sub-series focusses on a different building.

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Graham Smallbone

This series focusses on the headmastership of Graham Smallbone (1985-1996) and contains items relating to the life at School in the 1980s and 1990s, its staff and pupils.

Graham Smallbone

Three generations of Wharflands Housemasters

  • HOU-HOU/13-HOU/13/2-HOU/13/2/1-HOU/13/2/1/1
  • Item
  • N/D
  • Part of Houses

A photograph of three generations of Wharflands Housemasters an their wives: Val Harvey, John Barber and Malcolm Hardy.

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Three generations of Wharflands Housemasters

  • HOU-HOU/13-HOU/13/2-HOU/13/2/1-HOU/13/2/1/2
  • Item
  • N/D
  • Part of Houses

A photograph of three generations of Wharflands Housemasters an their wives: Val Harvey, John Barber and Malcolm Hardy.

Roger Blackmore

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

Ephemera

  • HOU-HOU/9-HOU/9/2
  • Sub-Series
  • 1970s - 2011
  • Part of Houses

This sub-file contains various photographs of the girls in their boarding house, as well as various items recording the every day life and events in Buchanans House.

Oakham School

A girl sitting on the bridge

  • HOU-HOU/9-HOU/9/2-HOU/9/2/6
  • Item
  • c.1983
  • Part of Houses

A photograph in black and white of a girl sitting on the stone bridge outside the new Buchanans extension, built in 1982-1983.

Oakham School