Oakham School Archives

BES
Subfonds
1802 - 2020

A collection which focuses on the history of the school campus and buildings. There is an excellent photographic record of the school campus including the development of both houses and teaching buildings.

The collection contains architectural plans for buildings and press releases/ photographs of the opening of new additions to the school campus.

This sub-fonds contains general policy documents more relevant to the estates and IT daily functions.

The three series divide this sub-fonds amongst buildings, campus services, and IT.

Oakham School

Photographs

BES-BES/1-BES/1/22-BES/1/22/1
File
1980 - 2018

Part of Buildings and Estates

This file focusses on photographs of Rushebrookes house since its construction in 1980.

L.R. Shipsides

School House and Old Hall

BES-BES/1-BES/1/2
Sub-Series
1858 - 2018

Part of Buildings and Estates

A collection of photographs and art work of School House, and plans of the building.

Roy Peters Photography

Rushebrookes

BES-BES/1-BES/1/22
Sub-Series
1980 - 2018

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

Buildings

BES-BES/1
Series
1858 - 2018

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

Architecture