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This sub-series focuses on Seventh Form Leavers' service held in Chapel. The bulk of the sub-series is orders of services.

A copy of the Headmaster's address for the Seventh form Leavers' service on 25 May 1991. Two pages A and B.

This series focuses on the history of the organs in the School Chapel, from the first one installed in 1930 to the current instruments built in 1993.

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 file focuses on the correspondence between Oakham School and organ builders, including Peter Collins Ltd, since 1990 and giving an insight as to the building and installation of the new organ in the School Chapel. Some letters were sent/ received between the Headmaster Graham Smallbone and the White and Lea families regarding an inscription in memory of David White and Henrietta Lea.

A letter from the Headmaster Graham Smallbone to John Heron regarding the old organ having expired and been replaced by a computer organ.

A letter from the Headmaster Graham Smallbone to Peter Collins, regarding the previous quotation and preliminary proposals for a new organ in the School Chapel. This letter is a reply to CHA/5/2/2/9.

A letter from the Headmaster Graham Smallbone to Liz and Chester White replying to the letter CHA/5/2/2/12 and regarding the building of the organ and finding a way to commemorate their son David.

A letter from the Headmaster Graham Smallbone to Peter Collins regarding the carvings on the organ and the tuning of the new organ.

A letter from the Headmaster Graham Smallbone to the School Archivist John Barber regarding the nature of the carvings on the case or in decorations around the pipes of the new organ.