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The House Grant advice for Hambleton house in the year 1997-1998. Three pages A to C.

A group of photographs of the Hambleton girls rehearsing and performing plays with the boys of Barrow, probably for House play competitions.

This series relates to College House, the pupils who lived there and the history of the building.
College House was built c.1320 and used to be a priest’s house for clergy sent to the town by Westminster Abbey. Oakham School bought College House from the Church in 1736. It served as the school’s Sanatorium until 1965, when College House was then converted into a boarding house for a dozen potential Oxbridge candidates.
In 1971, College House became the first girls’ boarding house. In 1982, it was converted to be used as a Seventh Form Study Centre.
Since 2007 College House has been converted into offices. The Foundation and Marketing moved in and the Senior Deputy Heads use the wing as their private residence. The Barber Rooms, housing the School Archives, opened in 2010 on the first floor and the Old Oakhamian Club is now on the ground floor.

This sub-file contains two photographs of the Round House lacrosse team playing in the Interhouse Lacrosse competition in 2011-2012.

This sub-series focusses on various photographs of the pupils and staff of School House as well as various documents related to the history of the house.

This sub-series contains letters related to School House. The items relate to the 2004 naming ceremony of rooms in School House.

This series focuses on the Day boys of Clipsham, founded in 1997. The main items are house photographs and handbooks.

This sub-series focuses on Sargants house daily running and administration since its opening in 1959. The sub-series contains a single item so far.

This series focuses on the boarding girls in Rushebrookes house. It was named after the first School Headmaster, Robert Rushbrooke. The first girls moved in in the Spring term 1980 but the building was officially open only on 22 November 1980. This series contains items related to the daily life of the girls in school and in house, as well as house photographs, mostly from the 2010s.