Showing 871 results

A weekly duty rota planner for the year 2020-2021.

This sub-series focuses on the history of the Junior School, renamed Chapmans in 1961.

A Lent term bill for B.G.S. Donald at Junior House for pocket money, book account, carpentering, clothes, stamps and other.

This sub-series contains various items related to Junior House/Chapmans. The bulk of the sub-series is informal photographs of everyday life in the boarding house in the 1950s/1960s.

A photograph of Stevens House, staff and pupils, in 1992-1993, with a house list stuck at the back. The photographs was owned by Rev Terence Treanor, a Tutor in Stevens.

This series relates to College House, the pupils who lived there and the history of the building.
College House was built c.1320 and used to be a priest’s house for clergy sent to the town by Westminster Abbey. Oakham School bought College House from the Church in 1736. It served as the school’s Sanatorium until 1965, when College House was then converted into a boarding house for a dozen potential Oxbridge candidates.
In 1971, College House became the first girls’ boarding house. In 1982, it was converted to be used as a Seventh Form Study Centre.
Since 2007 College House has been converted into offices. The Foundation and Marketing moved in and the Senior Deputy Heads use the wing as their private residence. The Barber Rooms, housing the School Archives, opened in 2010 on the first floor and the Old Oakhamian Club is now on the ground floor.

An account book recording costs per pupil in the boarding houses and expenditures such as food, laundry, fuel and oil, gardens and general maintenance, from Autumn term 1949 to 1967.

A small passport photograph of Elizabeth Baker at the start of 1994 Winter term in Stevens House.

A prospectus promoting studying at Oakham School in the 1930s. Contents: Staff; Admission; Work; Fees; Optional Payments; Absence & Remission of Fees; Health; Entrance Scholarships; Other Scholarships & Exhibitions; Buildings; Boarding Houses; Holidays & Hours; Games & Hobbies; School Societies; Expenses; Clothes List.

A prospectus promoting studying at Oakham School in 1942. Contents: Trustees & Staff; Foundation & History; The School today; Situation & Surroundings; Premises & Equipment; School Terms, Holidays, Timetable; Chapel Services, Religious Instruction; Curriculum; Libraries; Reports; Boarding Houses; School House, Wharflands, The Junior House; Clothes; Diet & Tuck Boxes; Health; Absence & Leave; Games; Physical Education; O.T.C.; Scouts; Activities outside the classroom; Entry, Fees, Remission of Fees for absence; Optional Payments, Extras; Pocket Money; Scholarships; Leaving Scholarships; Notice of leaving; Expenses; Appointments with the Headmaster; Day Boys; Publications; Old Oakhamian Club. Nine double-pages A to I. Enclosed is modifications to the clothes list due to Rationing in July 1941 (J).