COLL B 10

Reference code

COLL B 10

Title

Bursar: Correspondence with housemasters

Level

Series

Date

1946 - 1981

Extent & medium

64 files

Content description

After WWII housemasters could choose to cease to be entirely responsible for the running of the `hotel' side of their houses and the College took over such items as food stocks, boys' furniture and so on. These files all deal with housemasters who entered the new system. Many reflect the actual change, with valuations, lists of food stocks, estimates of dilapidations and so on, reflecting the state of the house at the time of transfer. Subsequent correspondence includes such matters as allowances for various aspects of running a house, including wages paid to house staff, physical state of the house and alterations, overspends and legal action for unpaid school fees, as well as the inventories and dilapidations generated by subsequent house moves. The amount of work invlved in running a boys' house is clearly shown by these files.

Arrangement

These files were originally part of the regular filing system, with the reference 11/1/6 followed by a letter for individual houses or housemasters. There seems initially to have been some confusion in the Bursary itself as to whether a file was for a house, in which case it might deal with more than one house master, or an individual, and in the early 1950s a definite change was made to a file for each house master. These files retained the 11/1/6 reference but then merely the name of the house master. The files with letters have been listed first, in alphabetical order, then the individuals' files, again in alphabetical order, but with one running number throughout. Individuals may therefore appear more than once. The files were received as a separate deposit, having at some stage been separated from the rest of the system (cf. COLL/B9), hence the liting as a separate series.