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Buildings and Estates Oakham School
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Buildings and Estates

  • BES
  • Subfonds
  • 1802 - 2020

A collection which focuses on the history of the school campus and buildings. There is an excellent photographic record of the school campus including the development of both houses and teaching buildings.

The collection contains architectural plans for buildings and press releases/ photographs of the opening of new additions to the school campus.

This sub-fonds contains general policy documents more relevant to the estates and IT daily functions.

The three series divide this sub-fonds amongst buildings, campus services, and IT.

Oakham School

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.

Oakham School

Photographs

This file contains various photographs of School House and Old Hall throughout the years.

Roy Peters Photography

School Campus

A collection of photographs and art work relating to the whole School Campus, in particular aerial photographs from 1937 of the School and the town, and a file of individual photographs of buildings around the campus. The oldest items in this sub-series date back to the 19th century.

Aerofilms Ltd

A photograph album

A photo album containing several photographs of the School buildings, including the interior of the Old School, the School House quad, a Physical Laboratory, The School House, School House dining hall and new changing rooms, Doncaster Close, the Gymnasium (now Queen Anne).

Charles Matkin

Cricket pavilions

A collection of documents, including photographs and commemorative plaques, relating to the School's cricket pavilions on Doncaster Close since the 19th century.

L.R. Shipsides

Photographs

This sub-file focusses on photographs of the Barraclough Hall since its construction in 1946.

Photo-Reportage Ltd

School Theatres

A collection of photographs of the School theatres, the Barraclough Hall and the QET.

Photo-Reportage Ltd

The Barraclough Hall

A collection of photographs of the Barraclough Hall since its construction in 1946. Once a warehouse at the terminus of the Canal on Ashwell Road, later converted into stables, the Barraclough Hall was named in honour of Mrs Barraclough, benefactor to the school, and in memory of her late husband, Norman Barraclough (OO, 1883). At the west end was the stage and the theatre would seat about three hundred and fifty people. Other features included a traditional long hall, raked stage and Proscenium Arch. The opening ceremony took place on 20 June 1953.

Photo-Reportage Ltd

A photograph album of the construction

A photograph album recording the conversion of Deanscroft stables into the Barraclough Hall, from the construction of the new theatre to the opening on 20 June 1953.

Oakham School

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