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Houses Mary Stevens Oakham School
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House Photographs

  • HOU-HOU/9-HOU/9/1
  • Sub-Series
  • 1977 - 2003
  • Part of Houses

This sub-series focuses on photographs of girls in Orchard Close and Buchanans House, mostly in the 1990s and early 2000s. It also contains photographs of the Sixth Form cohort.

Brian and Elizabeth Nicholls

Buchanans (Orchard Close)

  • 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

House Photographs

  • HOU-HOU/7-HOU/7/1
  • Sub-Series
  • 1911 - 1981
  • Part of Houses

This sub-series focuses on photographs of boys, living in Junior House/Chapmans since its inception. The bulk of the collection gathers photographs from the 1950s to 1980s.

Brian and Elizabeth Nicholls

A photograph of Johnsons

  • HOU-HOU/6-HOU/6/1-HOU/6/1/20
  • Item
  • N/D
  • Part of Houses

A photograph of the Day boys in Johnsons House in the early 1960s under the Housemaster Michael Stevens.

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Johnsons, 1963

  • HOU-HOU/6-HOU/6/1-HOU/6/1/19
  • Item
  • 1963
  • Part of Houses

A photograph of the Day boys in Johnsons House in the academic year 1962-1963 under the Housemaster Michael Stevens.

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The opening of Stevens House

  • HOU-HOU/12-HOU/12/2-HOU/12/2/8-HOU/12/2/8/2
  • Item
  • 16/10/1989
  • Part of Houses

A photograph of Simon Schanschieff giving a speech at the opening ceremony of Stevens, the new girls' boarding house, on 16 October 1989.

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Mary and Michael Stevens

  • HOU-HOU/12-HOU/12/2-HOU/12/2/8-HOU/12/2/8/1
  • Item
  • 16/10/1989
  • Part of Houses

A photograph of Mary and Michael Stevens in front of the plaque celebrating the opening of Stevens House, a boarding house for girls, on 16 October 1989.

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The Opening of Stevens

  • HOU-HOU/12-HOU/12/2-HOU/12/2/8
  • File
  • 1989
  • Part of Houses

Three photographs of the opening ceremony of Stevens house, a new boarding house for girls, after the conversion of Deanscroft.

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The opening of Stevens House

  • HOU-HOU/12-HOU/12/2-HOU/12/2/5-HOU/12/2/5/85
  • Item
  • 16/10/1989
  • Part of Houses

A photograph of Simon Schanschieff giving a speech at the opening ceremony of Stevens, the new girls' boarding house, in 1989.

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Ephemera

  • HOU-HOU/12-HOU/12/2
  • Sub-Series
  • 1989 - 2000
  • Part of Houses

This sub-file contains various photographs of the girls and tutors of Stevens House since its opening in 1989. Most of the photographs were gathered in photograph albums by the Housemistress.

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