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Oakham School Roger Blackmore English
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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

Photo

  • HOU-HOU/10-HOU/10/2-HOU/10/2/1
  • Item
  • 1998
  • Part of Houses

A photograph of the guests, staff and former staff, attending the celebration of the 50 years of Deanscroft/Haywoods in 1998.

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Guest List of Deanscroft 50th Anniversary

  • HOU-HOU/10-HOU/10/2-HOU/10/2/2
  • Item
  • 24/09/1998
  • Part of Houses

A guest list and a photograph of the Deanscroft-Haywoods transfer and the Deanscroft 50 years anniversary.

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Ephemera

  • HOU-HOU/10-HOU/10/2
  • Sub-Series
  • 1960 - 1998
  • Part of Houses

This sub-series is made of various informal photographs of the boys in Deanscroft, especially in the 1960s. It also contains items related to the 50 years Anniversary celebration of Deanscroft & Haywoods House, including a tie designed for the special occasion.

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Deanscroft

  • HOU-HOU/10
  • Series
  • 1948 - 2017
  • Part of Houses

This series focuses on the boarding boys in Deanscroft, since its opening in 1948. The Headmaster himself was Housemaster, until 1971. Deanscroft boarding house was closed on Speech Day 1989, prior to its conversion into Stevens, a boarding house for girls. The boarding boys were moved to the newly built Haywoods House on Kilburn Road. The items include the complete set of house photographs and informal photographs showing boys around the house and on campus, as well as duty records.

Brian and Elizabeth Nicholls

Ephemera

  • HOU-HOU/9-HOU/9/2
  • Sub-Series
  • 1970s - 2011
  • Part of Houses

A box of ephmera from Buchanan's House.

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Buchanans

  • 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

Ephemera

  • CHA-CHA/5-CHA/5/2-CHA/5/2/1
  • File
  • 1993
  • Part of Chapel

Photographs, negatives and an order of service connected to the inaugural performance and dedication of the new chapel organ.

Brian and Elizabeth Nicholls

Organ 1993

  • CHA-CHA/5-CHA/5/2
  • Sub-Series
  • 1986 - 1993
  • Part of Chapel

This sub-series focuses on the history of the 1993 Organ in the School Chapel. After the 1930 organ expired and was replaced by a computer organ in the 1980s, the headmaster Graham Smallbone commissioned for a new organ to be built. Some items highlight the various proposals, the correspondence focuses on the building and installation of the organ and the photographic file finally shows the organ in Chapel.

Peter Collins

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