A card from Trevor to John Barber
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- 13/07/1983
Part of History of the School
A postcard from Trevor at Sycamore Press Ltd congratulating John Barber on his book.
Trevor
A card from Trevor to John Barber
Part of History of the School
A postcard from Trevor at Sycamore Press Ltd congratulating John Barber on his book.
Trevor
A letter from Peter Collins to the Bursar
Part of Chapel
A letter from Peter Collins, Organ Builder, to the School Bursar, Lt Col Reay, regarding the purchase a a new organ. It is believed that the item was enclosing the quotation CHA/5/2/2/7 and the specification CHA/5/2/2/8.
Peter Collins
A letter from Peter Collins to Graham Smallbone
Part of Chapel
A letter from Peter Collins, Organ Builder, to the Headmaster Graham Smallbone regarding some preliminary proposals for the new school organ in the Chapel. Two pages A and B.
Peter Collins
A letter from Peter Collins to Graham Smallbone
Part of Chapel
A letter from Peter Collins, Organ Builder, to the headmaster Graham Smallbone regarding a delay in the installation of the organ due to lack of progress and the prospective events for the organ and celebrations for its installation.
Peter Collins
A letter from Peter Collins to Graham Smallbone
Part of Chapel
A letter from Peter Collins, Organ Builder, to the Headmaster Graham Smallbone regarding the progress on the new organ and the amount of interest he received in a previous open day, including a request from the Derbyshire Organists Association to visit the workshop.
Peter Collins
A note from Mrs Fitzpatrick to Mary Hoyle
Part of Houses
A note from Mrs M.J. Fitzpatrick, Sarah Fitzpatrick's mother, to Mary Hoyle, Housemistress of Stevens, enclosing her daughter's passport photograph.
Oakham School
Part of Chapel
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.
Peter Collins
Part of 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.
Graham Smallbone
A letter from Peter Collins to Graham Smallbone
Part of Chapel
A letter from Peter Collins, Organ Builder, to the Headmaster Graham Smallbone regarding the carvings on the organ and finishing the organ on time for the 'big day'.
Peter Collins