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This sub-series relates to Service programmes, focusing on Weekly and Sunday services, and services schedules and lists.

Order of service for the licensing service of Rev Michael Hills by the Bishop to the Forces The Right Reverend J.D.G. Kirkham at the Chapel o the Royal Navy College, Greenwich, including a choral evensong sung by the choir of Oakham School.

This photographic file focuses on the building of the new Peter Collins organ in the School Chapel in 1993 and the recital.

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.

This sub-series relates to licensing services, in particular of the School Chaplains.

Four photographs of five people posing in front of the new Peter Collins organ in the School Chapel. They are (L to R): Peter Collins (Builder), David Woodcock (Head of Music), Peter Hurford (Organist), Graham Smallbone (Headmaster) and Simon Schanschieff (Chairman of the Trustees). The photographs are all slightly different (A to D).

A programme for the inaugural recital by Peter Hurford on 26 June 1993 and the Service of Dedication by the Right Reverend William Westwood on 27 June 1993, including a brief history of the organs of Oakham School Chapel, a biography of Peter Hurford, and a description of the new Peter Collins organ.

A photograph of David Woodcock at the organ and the audience in the School Chapel.

A letter from the Headmaster Graham Smallbone to members of staff regarding the new organ in the Chapel and the special day which will mark its installation.

A letter from the Headmaster Graham Smallbone to Peter Collins regarding the installation of the organ and the proposed festival for the following year and discussing an exhibition in the Bowes Room.