OA Events
2012
Garth Pedler cuts the ribbon to
officially open the new Archive centre,
watched by the Headmaster Richard
Biggs, and the archivist Alison Mason
along with her volunteers Chris
Warren OA and Johanna Kastner.
Pictured below right: the Archive
team - Chris Warren, Alison Mason
and Johanna Kastner.
he opening of the new Archive Centre was a
highlight of the 2012 OA Day.
he creation of an Archive Centre at King's
College was only made possible by the relocation
of the Business Studies teaching spaces into the
Philip Richards Building when it opened in May
2011, and the school is very grateful to Philip
(Carpenter 1977) for the ongoing transformation of school facilities his generous gift has enabled.
After much work by the school's Estates
department, two classrooms were transformed
into a temperature-controlled storage room, and
an office and visitor centre with cabinet and wall
displays. here is a comfortable sofa where OAs
might sit to leaf through a photograph album,
whilst a large table provides work space for the
serious researcher.
he storage room contains a wide variety of
objects and records from throughout the
school's history, dating back as far as the
founding of the school and earlier. here is a large
photo collection, including official school, house
and team photographs, and the collection of
uniform and sports kit is also growing.