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This collection contains material relating to the history of the houses and their pupils. Each series is focused on a different house and many contain rich and detailed photographic records of houses year by year. Some houses are more detailed than others.

Other highlights of this collection include house handbooks, which help to induct a pupil into a house and its daily routine; photographs of daily life, including house events and leisure time; and administrative documents such as house diaries which record the calendar of house events, achievements of pupils, and accounts of incidents.

Included in this sub-fonds are houses which are no longer in existence such as Johnsons and Ruddles.

This series focuses on the Day girls of Gunthorpe, founded in 1997. The main items are house photographs.

This sub-series focuses on photographs of the Junior Boarding boys of Sargants House. The collection is complete from 1966 to 2010, missing only the years 1970 and 2009.

This series focuses on Peterborough House pupils and staff since its inception in 1966. Most of the series is made of house photographs, house magazines from the 1970s and various administrative documents.

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.

This sub-series focuses on photographs of the Day Girls in Gunthorpe since its inception in 1997 and contains all but one photographs of the Housemastership of Mary Grimley, only missing the year 2006-2007. It contains both formal and informal photographs as well as some photographs of the Sixth Form girls.

This sub-series focuses on informal photographs of the girls and staff of Gunthorpe House.

This sub-file contains photographs of the opening ceremony of the new Buchanans extension completed in 1983. Former Headmaster John Buchanan was amongst the guests.

Four photographs of the girls in Gunthorpe in the academic year 1999-2000 under the Housemistress Mary Grimley. The photographs (A to D) are all slightly different and all have a number of print is written on the back: MM19/1; MM19/3; MM19/2L; MM19/4L, respectively.

A photograph of Lower School staff, including Joan Shorten, celebrating her 25th anniversary at Oakham School in February 1999.