Menu for the Kasparov Chess Dinner
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- 06/11/1997
Part of Activities and Societies
A menu for the Kasparov Chess dinner on 6 November 1997, signed by Garry Kasparov.
Oakham School
Menu for the Kasparov Chess Dinner
Part of Activities and Societies
A menu for the Kasparov Chess dinner on 6 November 1997, signed by Garry Kasparov.
Oakham School
Menu of the anniversary dinner
Part of The World Wars
A menu for the anniversary dinner to commemorate the centenary o the Battle of Hohenzollern Redoubt held at the 4/5th Battalion, The Royal Leicestershire Regiment Officers' Dining Club on 10 October 2015. The item includes a photograph of the officers of the 1/4th Leicestershire Regiment at Luton in October 1914 and their signatures, the menu and the provenance of twelve candlesticks.
The Royal Leicestershire Regiment
Part of Headmasters
Mr Merrick W. Taylor's C.V.
Merrick Taylor
Part of Buildings and Estates
This sub-series focusses on the Merton building, erected on the site of the old Ashburton Dining Hall. It was in use on the first day of the 1991 Winter term and the official opening ceremony took place on 26 November. Michael McCrum, former Trustee and Master of Corpus Christi, Cambridge, opened the new block. It comprised “spacious corridors, staff rooms for each subjects and twenty-four comfortable and acoustically effective classrooms”. The building was named after OO Thomas Merton (‘32). The Headmaster, Graham Smallbone, planted a tree outside the entrance to commemorate the 450th anniversary of the Diocese of Peterborough. This new building houses the English, Maths and History Departments.
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Michael Frewin playing the piano
Part of Staff
A photograph of Michael Frewin playing the piano. Date is unknown.
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Part of Sports
A photograph of Michael Graves batting for the School's 1st XI in the 1970s.
Brian Needham
Part of Headmasters
An obituary for former Headmaster, John Buchanan, written by Michael Stevens in 2005. Five pages A to E.
Michael Stevens
Middle & Upper School Eucharist
Part of Chapel
Order of service for a Morning Service for Middle School and Upper School in Chapel on 16 September 2021.
Oakham School
Middle School Interhouse Tennis
Part of Houses
Information sheet detailing venue, kit, timings and rules of the Middle School interhouse tennis competition for Third and Fourth forms.
Peta Girdwood
Mike Atherton on the roll call of talent cut down in the Great War
Part of The World Wars
An article published in a newspaper regarding the publication of a new book, "Wisden on the Great War", and focussing on the 1914 Oakham School cricket team and the five boys who fell in the First World War.
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