- STF-STF/4
- Series
- 1972 - 2021
Part of Staff
This series focusses on staff leavers, including list of staff changes, invitations to Leavers' events and booklets celebrating staff's time at Oakham School
Oakham School
Part of Staff
This series focusses on staff leavers, including list of staff changes, invitations to Leavers' events and booklets celebrating staff's time at Oakham School
Oakham School
A letter from Beatrice Townrow to David Morgan
Part of Photographic and Art Collection
A letter from Beatrice Townrow thanking David Morgan and the boys for taking photographs of the Queen's visit on Doncaster Close.
Beatrice Townrow
The Old Oakhamian Calendar, No.8, 1924
Part of Oakhamian Magazines
Old Oakhamian Calendar, published in 1924. Cover with contents: Editorial; List of Addresses of Members of the Old Oakhamian Club - 1924; Meeting of Old Oakhamian Club; Old Oakhamian Luncheon; A Letter from the Headmaster; Cambridge Letter; Officers' Training Corps; A Weekend in Africa; Births, Deaths and Marriages; Old Oakhamian Matches; School Staff - September 1924. Nine double-pages A to I.
Oakham School
Part of Houses
This series focuses on the boarding girls in Orchard Close (built in 1929), later Buchanans House. It became a girls' boarding house in early October 1975 and Michael Stevens was its first Housemaster. It was renamed Buchanans House in Summer 1977, following the retirement of Headmaster J.D. Buchanan. Work was completed on Buchanans house in 1982 and the extension was ready for occupation in January 1983. The house was first a Seventh Form house and transitioned to a Middle School house in the 1980s.
Brian and Elizabeth Nicholls
Part of Houses
This series focuses on the boarding boys in Deanscroft, since its opening in 1948. The Headmaster himself was Housemaster, until 1971. Deanscroft boarding house was closed on Speech Day 1989, prior to its conversion into Stevens, a boarding house for girls. The boarding boys were moved to the newly built Haywoods House on Kilburn Road. The items include the complete set of house photographs and informal photographs showing boys around the house and on campus, as well as duty records.
Brian and Elizabeth Nicholls
Part of Headmasters
This file focusses on letters sent/received by John Buchanan, chiefly during his headmastership (1958-1977).
John Buchanan
Part of Buildings and Estates
A collection of photographs of the Old Gymnasium and the Wharton Pavilion from the late 1970s.
L.R. Shipsides
Part of Buildings and Estates
A collection of documents relating to the Wharton pavilion, built on the site of the Old Gymnasium, adjacent to Wharflands. The opening ceremony took place on 4 July 1983 by O.O. Ron Jacobs ('45), President of the R.F.U. In July 2014, the Wharton Pavilion, known as Stumps, was taken down.
L.R. Shipsides
Part of Buildings and Estates
A collection of documents, including photographs and commemorative plaques, relating to the School's cricket pavilions on Doncaster Close since the 19th century.
L.R. Shipsides