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This focus focusses on various documents relating to the construction of the Jerwoods campus in the 1970s.

Three photographs of Old School, All Saints Church and School House in their original frame. The photographs were taken by John Burton & Sons, Photographers and Artists, Leicester, in activity from 1863 to 1911.

A sepia toned, oval framed photos of School House. The photograph was taken by John Burton & Sons, and the date is estimated between 1863 and 1911.

A collection of documents relating to Round House, the first purpose-built girls’ boarding house, built in 1972 on what was School House tennis court. The Architect, Tom E. Wilson, designed a building in the shape of a Dovecote, or a Birdcage. The builders were George Duxbury (OO, '34) and Sons. The new house contained thirty bed-sitters on three floors, built around a central spiral stairway. A common room linked the new building with the War Memorial Library. At the back of the Library were built a small flat and domestic offices. Sixty girls moved in from the beginning of the 1972 Winter term and the boarding house was officially opened on 28 October 1972 by Mrs Haywood.

A press cutting regarding the daily life at Oakham School in the 1840s, based on James Padley's letters home and regarding John Barber's article "Oakham School 140 years ago".

This file focuses on correspondence asking/ giving John Barber permission to use certain material in his book.

A letter from Neville Stack, Editor of the Leicester Mercury, to John Barber giving him permission to print the picture of The Duke of Edinburgh in his upcoming publication.

This series contains various account books, cash books fees books and ledgers recording pupils fees and other charges, incomes and expenditures, staff wages and salaries throughout several years.

Three booklets from the Accountants Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co. to the Trustees on the Elizabethan Trust, the Development Trust and the School Accounts.

A prospectus promoting studying at Oakham School in 1937. Contents: Trustees & Staff; Foundation & History; The School today; Situation & Surroundings; Premises & Equipment; School Terms, Holidays, Timetable; Chapel Services, Religious Instruction; Curriculum; Libraries; Reports; Boarding Houses; School House, Wharflands, The Junior House; Clothes; Diet & Tuck Boxes; Health; Absence & Leave; Games; Physical Education; O.T.C.; Scouts; Activities outside the classroom; Entry, Fees, Remission of Fees for absence; Optional Payments, Extras; Pocket Money; Scholarships; Leaving Scholarships; Notice of leaving; Expenses; Appointments with the Headmaster; Day Boys; Publications; Old Oakhamian Club. Nine double-pages A to I. Enclosed are a form of application for admission (J) and a clothes list for the Junior House (K).