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Brian and Elizabeth Nicholls Buchanans
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Buildings

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

Ephemera

  • HOU-HOU/9-HOU/9/2
  • Sub-Series
  • 1970s - 2011
  • Part of Houses

This sub-file contains various photographs of the girls in their boarding house, as well as various items recording the every day life and events in Buchanans House.

Oakham School

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

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 Sixth Form, 1994

  • HOU-HOU/9-HOU/9/1-HOU/9/1/37
  • Item
  • 1994
  • Part of Houses

A photograph of the Sixth Form girls in Buchanans in the academic year 1993-1994 under the Housemistress Pat Craig.

Brian and Elizabeth Nicholls

Buchanans, 1990

  • HOU-HOU/9-HOU/9/1-HOU/9/1/36
  • Item
  • 1990
  • Part of Houses

A photograph of the girls in Buchanans in the academic year 1989-1990, under the Housemistress Pat Craig.

Brian and Elizabeth Nicholls

Buchanans, 1981

  • HOU-HOU/9-HOU/9/1-HOU/9/1/1
  • Item
  • 1981
  • Part of Houses

Three photographs of the girls in Buchanans in the academic year 1980-1981, under the Housemaster Roger Blackmore. The photograph A is in colour and has a number of print written on the back: S165/2. The photograph B is in black and white and is slightly different; a number of print is written on the back: S165/3. The photograph C is in colour and has a number of print on the back: S165/1.

Brian and Elizabeth Nicholls

Buchanans, 1980

  • HOU-HOU/9-HOU/9/1-HOU/9/1/3
  • Item
  • 1980
  • 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

Buchanans, 1980

  • HOU-HOU/9-HOU/9/1-HOU/9/1/33
  • Item
  • 1980
  • Part of Houses

Three informal photographs of the girls in Buchanans in the academic year 1980-1981 on the stone bridge. The two photographs (A and B) are in colour and slightly different. They were taken by Brian and Elizabeth Nicholls Photography and the number of print is written on the back: R164/7 and R164/8, respectively. The photograph C is in black and white and the number of print is: R164/4.

Brian and Elizabeth Nicholls

Buchanans Sixth Form, 1993

  • HOU-HOU/9-HOU/9/1-HOU/9/1/4
  • Item
  • 1993
  • Part of Houses

A photograph of the Sixth Form girls in Buchanans in the academic year 1992-1993 under the Housemistress Pat Craig.

Brian and Elizabeth Nicholls

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