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This file focusses on letters received/sent by the Headmaster Graham Smallbone during his headmastership (1985-1996).

A collection which charts the various societies and activities available to pupils at Oakham School. Documents include photographic records and correspondence for different societies. Topics include chess, CCF/OTC, scouts, Duke of Edinburgh Award, Oligoi , Exploratory Society, and trips and expeditions.

The multiple series contain administrative documents for the various societies and certain series, such as Duke of Edinburgh Award and CCF/OTC have excellent photographic record of formal or informal events.

There is a particularly detailed series on Chess and the event of Gary Kasparov's visit to the school.

There is a good collection of shooting medals and trophies, kindly donated by Henry Blagg.

Four pages (A to D) from a 1919 photo album, with captions below the photographs. Contents: Main entrance (School House), pupils after school fire, 1919; 'Tudor House' in Boughton; Rugby 1st XV, 1919; Burleigh gardens and pond; Old Hall and the quad; A cricket match; Lord French inspecting the cadets; St John's College; pupils in the quad; the Long Dormitory boys; a dog; Coates, 1919; pupils at the baths; Burleigh woods and hill; Market Place; F.C. Dwyer; Cricket 1st XI, 1919; The Rectory; C.F. Bayley.

A photograph of Lt Col Maxwell Heron ('74) inspecting Oakham School C.C.F. cadets in 1999 at the opening of the new C.C.F. Headquarters.

A photograph of The Duke of Gloucester, alongside the Headmaster Nigel Lashbrook and another officer, on 6 May 2010.

A photograph of The Duke of Gloucester, alongside David Taylor, Commanding Officer of the C.C.F., on 6 May 2010.

A photograph of the inspection of the C.C.F. by The Duke of Gloucester on 6 May 2010.

A photograph of The Duke of Gloucester, alongside David Taylor, Commanding Officer of the C.C.F., on 6 May 2010.

This sub-file consists of a letter from Robert Gregory enclosing photographs of the Centenary Inspection of the C.C.F. by The Duke of Gloucester in May 2010.

A photograph of the inspection of the C.C.F. by The Duke of Gloucester on 6 May 2010.