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This sub-file contains documents relating to the arrangements for the C.S. Ellis Group Ltd party attending the 1992 Oakham Festival.

This file focusses on the organisation of various Oakham Art Festivals in the early 1990s.

A photograph of former Headmaster John Buchanan giving a speech in Oakham Castle, in the late 1980s.

This sub-series focuses on the history of the 1993 Organ in the School Chapel. After the 1930 organ expired and was replaced by a computer organ in the 1980s, the headmaster Graham Smallbone commissioned for a new organ to be built. Some items highlight the various proposals, the correspondence focuses on the building and installation of the organ and the photographic file finally shows the organ in Chapel.

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.

A collection of photographs and architectural plans of the Music School since its opening in 1984.

This file focusses on photographs of the Music School throughout the years.

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.

This file focusses on photographs and artwork of John Buchanan, during his Headmastership (1958-1977) and various visits to the School in the 1980s and 1990s.

This series focusses on the headmastership of John David Buchanan (1958-1977) and contains items relating to the life at School in the 1960s and 1970s, its staff and pupils. The bulk of the series consists of books, publications, letters, speeches and sermons written by Mr Buchanan himself.