Part of Buildings and Estates
This series is related to the buildings on the School campus and documents their history. Most of the collection is made of photographs and artwork, as well as architectural plans. Each sub-series focusses on a different building.
Oakham School
Part of Buildings and Estates
This file focusses on photographs of Rushebrookes house since its construction in 1980.
L.R. Shipsides
Part of Buildings and Estates
A collection of documents, mostly photographs, of Rushebrookes, the third purpose-built boarding house for girls, adjacent to Buchanans house, on the land purchased in 1977. The new house was named after the school’s first headmaster, Robert Rushebrooke. The first girls moved in over Spring half-term 1980 but the opening ceremony only took place later that year, on 22 November.
L.R. Shipsides
Part of Houses
This series focuses on the boarding girls in Rushebrookes house. It was named after the first School Headmaster, Robert Rushbrooke. The first girls moved in in the Spring term 1980 but the building was officially open only on 22 November 1980. This series contains items related to the daily life of the girls in school and in house, as well as house photographs, mostly from the 2010s.
Oakham School
Part of Houses
An A1 poster with photographs of four house events in the Spring term 2018: a Third and Fourth form dinner in house; a Buchanans-Rushebrookes social; a Third and Fifth form movie night; the Junior debating team.
Kim Robinson
Part of Houses
A photograph of the 2018-2019 Rushebrookes' third form girls.
Kim Robinson
Fifth Form girls at the Christmas dinner
Part of Houses
A photograph of the Fifth Form girls at the Rushebrookes Christmas dinner in the Small Barraclough in 2018.
Kim Robinson