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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

A letter from Jon Wills to Lewis Moody

  • HOU-HOU/4-HOU/4/4-HOU/4/4/1
  • Item
  • 23/04/2004
  • Part of Houses

A letter from Jon Wills, Chairman of the Old Oakhamian Club, to Lewis Moody ('97) regarding attending the opening of a room named after him in School House.

Jon Wills

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 Centenary Or Is It?

  • HOU-HOU/7-HOU/7/3-HOU/7/3/1
  • Item
  • 2010
  • Part of Houses

Printed Powerpoint slides from a presentation on the centenary of Chapmans. Includes information on the school's founding, images of various school buildings from different times, campus maps and pupils; a history of Junior House/Chapmans House; and a list of Housemasters. Thirty-four pages A to AG.

Oakham School

Deanscroft Beach Studies

  • HOU-HOU/10-HOU/10/2-HOU/10/2/8
  • Item
  • N/D
  • Part of Houses

A photograph showing Upper School boys leaving the Deanscroft Studies, probably in the 1960s.

Oakham School

Deanscroft Beach Studies

  • HOU-HOU/10-HOU/10/2-HOU/10/2/9
  • Item
  • N/D
  • Part of Houses

A photograph of Upper School boys standing outside the Deanscroft Beach Studies, probably in the 1960s.

Oakham School

Girls walking on the bridge

  • HOU-HOU/9-HOU/9/2-HOU/9/2/5
  • Item
  • N/D
  • Part of Houses

A photograph in black and white of three girls walking on the stone bridge. With view of the new extension built in 1982-1983.

Oakham School

House rugby

  • HOU-HOU/4-HOU/4/2-HOU/4/2/8
  • Item
  • c.1990
  • Part of Houses

A photograph of a rugby player in the School House quad, probably in the 1990s..

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Mary and Michael Stevens

  • HOU-HOU/12-HOU/12/2-HOU/12/2/8-HOU/12/2/8/1
  • Item
  • 16/10/1989
  • Part of Houses

A photograph of Mary and Michael Stevens in front of the plaque celebrating the opening of Stevens House, a boarding house for girls, on 16 October 1989.

Oakham School

New changing room

  • HOU-HOU/19-HOU/19/2-HOU/19/2/8
  • File
  • 04/2005
  • Part of Houses

Eight print-outs of photographs of the new changing room in Ancaster. The changers were officially opened on 7 June 2005.

Oakham School

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