Oakham School Archives

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Sub-File
c.1960

A photograph of the Beach studies, looking toward the Science block, in the 1960s. The photograph was taken by Photo-Reportage Ltd and the number of print is stamped on the back: 862871.

Photo-Reportage Ltd

The Barraclough Hall

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File
1946 - 1960

Part of Buildings and Estates

A collection of photographs of the Barraclough Hall since its construction in 1946. Once a warehouse at the terminus of the Canal on Ashwell Road, later converted into stables, the Barraclough Hall was named in honour of Mrs Barraclough, benefactor to the school, and in memory of her late husband, Norman Barraclough (OO, 1883). At the west end was the stage and the theatre would seat about three hundred and fifty people. Other features included a traditional long hall, raked stage and Proscenium Arch. The opening ceremony took place on 20 June 1953.

Photo-Reportage Ltd

A photograph of a house kitchen

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Item
c.1960

Part of Buildings and Estates

A photograph of a house kitchen in the 1960s, the house is not known. The photograph was taken by Photo-Reportage Ltd and the number of print is stamped on the back: 862837.

Photo-Reportage Ltd

A photograph of a dorm

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Item
c.1960

Part of Buildings and Estates

A photograph of a dorm on the first floor of Deanscroft in the 1960s. The photograph was taken by Photo-Reportage Ltd and the number of print is stamped on the back: 157551.

Photo-Reportage Ltd

Photographs of the staircase up to Physics

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Item
c.1960

Part of Buildings and Estates

Two photographs (A and B) of the staircase leading up to the Physics classrooms inside the Sargants Laboratories in the 1960s. The photographs were taken by Photo-Reportage Ltd and the numbers of print are stamped on the back: 157583 and 157584, respectively.

Photo-Reportage Ltd

Drawings of various buildings

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Sub-File
1961

Part of Buildings and Estates

Copies of the individual drawings by Dennis Flanders, published in the Illustrated London News.

Dennis Flanders

A drawing of the Barraclough Hall

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Item
1961

Part of Buildings and Estates

A drawing of the Barraclough Hall, with pupils walking around and the Science block in the background, by Dennis Flanders for the Illustrated London News.

Dennis Flanders

A drawing of School House