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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 various items related to the history of College House.

A note from Rod Smith explaining the process of applying for a desk in College House.

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.

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.

A photograph of the boys in Chapmans in the 1980s under the Housemaster Rod Smith.

Two photographs (A and B) of the boys in Chapmans in the 1980s under the Housemaster Rod Smith. The photographs are of the same group but slightly different.

Two photographs (A and B) of the boys in Chapmans in the academic year 1980-1981 under the Housemaster Rod Smith. The photographs are of the same group but slightly different.

A photograph of the boys in Chapmans in the academic year 1980-1981 under the Housemaster Rod Smith.

A photograph of the boys in Chapmans in the 1980s under the Housemaster Rod Smith.