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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 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 relates to weddings celebrated in the School Chapel over the years.

Order of service of the service of Thanksgiving for Michael Stevens held at the School Chapel on 18 January 2012.

A photograph of the unveiling of the commemorative plaque in the entrance of the Merton Building by Michael McCrum on 26 November 1991. Also present were the Chairman of the Trustees, Simon Schanschieff, and the Headmaster, Graham Smallbone.

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.

This file focusses on photographs of the Schanschieffs site, including a scrapbook of the refurbishment and opening.

A collection of documents, mostly photographs, relating to the Schanschieffs site.
In 1994, the School purchased the Catmose Vale site, behind Rushebrookes house. The original buildings were built in 1836-1837 by William J. Donthorn. They used to be the town’s workhouse, which later became the Catmose Vale Hospital. On the site was built a car park, two Day boys’ houses and the original buildings were converted into two Day girls’ houses. The four houses were officially opened on 17 September 1997 and were named after Rutland villages: Gunthorpe and Hambleton (Day girls), and Barrow and Clipsham (Day boys). The site was named after O.O. Simon Schanschieff ('57), Chairman of the Trustees.

A photograph of Lord Forte at the opening ceremony of the Barraclough Dining Hall on 28 September 1987.

This sub-file focusses on photographs of the Barraclough Dining Hall since its construction in 1987.