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 Buildings and Estates
A collection of photographs and architectural plans of the Music School since its opening in 1984.
Roger Blackmore
Part of Buildings and Estates
This file focusses on photographs of the Music School throughout the years.
Roger Blackmore
Part of Staff
This sub-file contains various photographs of Roger Blackmore, Teacher and later School Registrar.
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A photograph of the opening ceremony
Part of Buildings and Estates
A photograph of the guests at the opening of the new Wharton pavilion on 4 July 1983. The photograph was taken by Brian and Elizabeth Nicholls Photography and the number of print is written on the back: V353/12.
Brian and Elizabeth Nicholls
Part of Staff
A photograph of Roger Blackmore writing at his desk, with a model of the new Wharton Pavilion on the desk.
Brian and Elizabeth Nicholls
Part of Houses
Two photographs of the girls in Buchanans in the academic year 1979-1980, under the Housemaster Roger Blackmore. The photograph A is in colour and the number of print is written on the back: R164/5. The photograph B is in black and white and slightly different; the number of print is written on the back: R164/2.
Brian and Elizabeth Nicholls
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 photographs of the Old Gymnasium and the Wharton Pavilion from the late 1970s.
L.R. Shipsides
Part of Headmasters
This series focusses on the headmastership of Oliver Richard Sylvester Bull (1977-1984) and contains items relating to the life at School in the 1970s and 1980s, its staff and pupils. One of the files relates to Michael Stevens as Acting Headmaster for two terms in 1985.
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