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A copy of Oakham School Common Room application for the renewal of Club Registration Certificate under the Licensing Act 1964.

This file focusses on artwork of various buildings on the School Campus in the 20th century.

This file focusses on photographs and drawing dating back from the Headmastership of Rev Edward Vere Hodge and includes photographs of his wife, the whole School, and various groups of pupils and visitors.

This sub-series focusses on the Ashburton building, formerly the Haywood building.
Colonel Thomas Haywood, Chairman of the Trustees, laid the foundation stone of a new building, which was to bear his name, on 13th June 1964. The architects of this new academic building were F.J. Lenton & Partners. It came to use in September 1965 and was officially opened by Group Captain Douglas Bader. It housed the Geography and Modern Languages Departments. It comprised nine classrooms and the Jerwood Hall in the basement, which was equipped as a lecture hall, cinema and television room. In 1978, a new extension to the Haywood Building saw the addition of six classrooms and ancillary rooms to the Modern Languages, Geography and Audio Visual Aids Departments. The Haywood building on Church Street was extended in 1984. It was renamed 'Ashburton' in 1989 and now houses the Modern Foreign Languages and Classics departments.

This sub-series relates to the success of Oakham School Shooting VIII at Bisley in 1987, including in particular press cuttings.

Newspaper cutting from The Daily Telegraph reporting on the debate concerning the frescoes in Old School and the decision to install panelling instead of covering them.

A photograph of boys playing tennis at the back of Wharflands house, possibly in the 1960s. The photograph was taken by Photo-Reportage Ltd and the number of print is stamped on the back: 157518.

Issue no.7 of the 'British Chess Magazine', July 1990, including the section Problem World mentioning Duncan Clarke and Graham Lee pp.318-320.

A photocopy of an article from The British Chess Magazine, volume 121 reporting on the Oakham Masters, including the cover of the magazine and pp.229-239. Seven pages A to G.

This sub-series contains photographs of the exterior and interior the School memorial Chapel throughout the years. The earliest photographs showed the chapel being built in 1924-1925.