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Concise Oxford Dictionary, new edition for the 1990s with thumb index presentation edition, with red bonded leather with gilt edges and Oakham School crest on the cover.

A copy of the revised eleventh edition of the Concise Oxford Dictionary, the eleventh edition, with a black cover.

This file consists of various entry books on potential future pupils.

A blue notebook recording the performance of candidates who took the entrance examination in May 1976.

A yellow notebook recording the performance of candidates who took the entrance examination in 1977.

A blue notebook recording the performance of late candidates who took the entrance examination in 1976. A loose piece of paper.

This file focusses on correspondence regarding the refurbishment of Old School in the late 1980s-early 1990s and the issue concerning the frescoes.

A memorandum from the Bursar Tom Reay to Ian Robson and David Smith regarding the slow progress of the refurbishment of Old School in 1993.

A letter from the Headmaster Graham Smallbone to David Smith and Ian Robson regarding the refurbishment of Old School and giving consideration to the needs for lighting and curtaining.

This sub-series focusses on the Merton building, erected on the site of the old Ashburton Dining Hall. It was in use on the first day of the 1991 Winter term and the official opening ceremony took place on 26 November. Michael McCrum, former Trustee and Master of Corpus Christi, Cambridge, opened the new block. It comprised “spacious corridors, staff rooms for each subjects and twenty-four comfortable and acoustically effective classrooms”. The building was named after OO Thomas Merton (‘32). The Headmaster, Graham Smallbone, planted a tree outside the entrance to commemorate the 450th anniversary of the Diocese of Peterborough. This new building houses the English, Maths and History Departments.