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Michael Stevens Oakham School Houses British English
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House Photographs

  • HOU-HOU/9-HOU/9/1
  • Sub-Series
  • 1977 - 2003
  • Part of Houses

This sub-series focuses on photographs of girls in Orchard Close and Buchanans House, mostly in the 1990s and early 2000s. It also contains photographs of the Sixth Form cohort.

Brian and Elizabeth Nicholls

Buchanans (Orchard Close)

  • HOU-HOU/9
  • Series
  • 1977 - 2011
  • Part of Houses

This series focuses on the boarding girls in Orchard Close (built in 1929), later Buchanans House. It became a girls' boarding house in early October 1975 and Michael Stevens was its first Housemaster. It was renamed Buchanans House in Summer 1977, following the retirement of Headmaster J.D. Buchanan. Work was completed on Buchanans house in 1982 and the extension was ready for occupation in January 1983. The house was first a Seventh Form house and transitioned to a Middle School house in the 1980s.

Brian and Elizabeth Nicholls

History

  • HOU-HOU/7-HOU/7/3
  • Sub-Series
  • 2010
  • Part of Houses

This sub-series focuses on the history of the Junior School, renamed Chapmans in 1961.

Oakham School

House Photographs

  • HOU-HOU/7-HOU/7/1
  • Sub-Series
  • 1911 - 1981
  • Part of Houses

This sub-series focuses on photographs of boys, living in Junior House/Chapmans since its inception. The bulk of the collection gathers photographs from the 1950s to 1980s.

Brian and Elizabeth Nicholls

Chapmans (Junior House)

  • HOU-HOU/7
  • Series
  • 1911 - 2010
  • Part of Houses

This series focuses on the Junior House/Chapmans pupils and staff since its opening in 1910. It first comprised the Junior Department with facilities for boys boarders and classrooms. The house was renamed Chapmans in September 1960, after Frank Emerson Chapman, first Housemaster of the Junior House; it became a Senior House. Most of the series is made of photographs, house photographs as well as more informal photographs.

Brian and Elizabeth Nicholls

A photograph of Johnsons

  • HOU-HOU/6-HOU/6/1-HOU/6/1/20
  • Item
  • N/D
  • Part of Houses

A photograph of the Day boys in Johnsons House in the early 1960s under the Housemaster Michael Stevens.

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Johnsons, 1963

  • HOU-HOU/6-HOU/6/1-HOU/6/1/19
  • Item
  • 1963
  • Part of Houses

A photograph of the Day boys in Johnsons House in the academic year 1962-1963 under the Housemaster Michael Stevens.

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House Photographs

  • HOU-HOU/6-HOU/6/1
  • Sub-Series
  • 1966 - 1993
  • Part of Houses

This sub-series focuses on photographs of the Day Boys in Johnsons House from the 1960s to the 1980s. The collection is complete from 1979 to 1993.

Brian and Elizabeth Nicholls

Johnsons

  • HOU-HOU/6
  • Series
  • 1959 - 1997
  • Part of Houses

This series focuses on the Day boys' house of Johnsons, throughout its history (1959-1997). The collection is mostly made of house photographs and teams' photographs, as well as some administrative records.

Oakham School

The opening of Stevens House

  • HOU-HOU/12-HOU/12/2-HOU/12/2/8-HOU/12/2/8/2
  • Item
  • 16/10/1989
  • Part of Houses

A photograph of Simon Schanschieff giving a speech at the opening ceremony of Stevens, the new girls' boarding house, on 16 October 1989.

Oakham School

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