File of 98 carbon copies listing all items of furniture and equipment great and small (+ '23 horses on feeding strength')
Gardner Merchant Pitch for school's catering
BX70-26
Extras sheet
BX70-20
Blank form outlining the 'extras' on a school bill, such as Sanatorium, sailing, breakages etc
Date is 197. so usable for a decade.
Staff pay
BX70-25
Teaching staff payscales and associated correspondence from bursar
Also includes bursar letter about Burnham from 1971.
Donated by John Boys
Bursary papers
BX70-22
Various papers from 1981 file including:
Schedule of sailing boats owned by the school for insurance
Schedule of rowing boats owned by the school for insurance
Schedule of musical instruments owned by the school for insurance
Classroom equipment listed by department (mainly OHPs except for music) for insurance
List of computers/electric typewriters for bursary (computer cost £3281-81!) + some invoices
Brighton College
BX70-11
Letter from Anthony Seldon (HM) to John Lever apologising for he behaviour of brighton Collge pupils when on a Reading Party at Canford
Marketing boarding
BX70-12
Letters between John Lever and Michael Mavor (HM Loretto) about boarding. Loretto was considering an expansion of the school (incl boarding) and Mavor wanted answers to various aspects such as weekend activities, marketing boarding, day/boarding schools.
Marketing strategy
BX70-13
Marketing Strategy (15 pages); Marketing Action Plan (7 pages); letter from Russell Spiers.
Canford commissioned RS to do a survey and these two documents are the result.
Sunday Times guide 2006
BX70-15
Copy of questionnaire returned to the Sunday Times as part of their Parent Power Guide.
Gives a snapshot of Canford at the time.
Publicity related to new classrooms
BX70-16
Correspondence between HM (Wallace) and others (Daily Sketch; Public Schools Information Office; Mathers PR Ltd) over what sort of publicity should take place when new classrooms are opened. Also includes some material on Mathers supplied by HMC.
Wimborne Grammar School
BX70-14
Correspondence between the HMs of Canford (Wallace) and WGS (Donald Neil) in response to a questionnaire Wallace had been asked to fill in.
Neil, who had worked in private schools before going to WGS, outlines the essential differences between how grammar and independent schools work.
School accounts 1946-64
BX70-17
Copies sent to the HM showing summary accounts. Earlier versions incude covering letters with some explanations/notes
Also incuded are tables comparing the account summaries from 1932 - 46