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This file relates to various School trips to the amusement park Alton Towers between 1999 and 2001.

A letter from Jan West to Alton Towers Booking Office regarding the number of pupils visiting Alton Towers on 21 May 2000 and the cost of tickets.

The itinerary of the boarding and day houses' trip to Alton Towers on 16 May 1999, sent by Jan West to houses to be announced and displayed.

A letter from Alton Towers Advance Sales to Jan West confirming the booking and ticket costs for 21 May 2000.

An invoice from Alton Towers for Oakham School visit's to the amusement park on 21 May 2000.

A note from Jan West to Alton Towers Booking Office confirming the costs and number of pupils and staff visiting the amusement park on 16 May 1999.

This series relates to College House, the pupils who lived there and the history of the building.
College House was built c.1320 and used to be a priest’s house for clergy sent to the town by Westminster Abbey. Oakham School bought College House from the Church in 1736. It served as the school’s Sanatorium until 1965, when College House was then converted into a boarding house for a dozen potential Oxbridge candidates.
In 1971, College House became the first girls’ boarding house. In 1982, it was converted to be used as a Seventh Form Study Centre.
Since 2007 College House has been converted into offices. The Foundation and Marketing moved in and the Senior Deputy Heads use the wing as their private residence. The Barber Rooms, housing the School Archives, opened in 2010 on the first floor and the Old Oakhamian Club is now on the ground floor.

This sub-series focuses on photographs of boys, then girls, living in College House in the 1960s and 1970s.

A print out of a photograph of the first Sixth form girls boarders in College House in 1971, under Housemaster Ben Jones.

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.