The gallery

Seventy-five years, in photographs

6 photographs across 2 albums. Every past event has its own album, and the archive grows as scans come in.

2026 Event

Past Pupils Reunion 2026

Year groups back on the front steps in the afternoon, then dinner at the Talbot Hotel — the gathering that set the pattern for the Union's annual reunion.

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The class of 2011 gathered on the front steps of Oatlands College, beneath the arched doorway with the school crest in the fanlight

The class of 2011, back at the front door.

The same group on the front steps, this time pulling faces and posing for the camera

The second take, once everyone had relaxed.

The class of 2011 grouped around their table at the reunion dinner, standing and seated, wearing name badges

The same group at the dinner that evening.

Five past pupils with their arms around each other at the reunion dinner table, name badges on, pints of Guinness poured in front of them

Name badges on, pints poured, the room filling up behind.

2025 Archive

On the Front Steps — the Classes of 1975 and 2015

Two year groups, fifty years apart, photographed on the same front steps on the same afternoon.

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Around thirty men from the class of 1975 standing in rows on the front steps of Oatlands College, wearing name badges, with the Principal in the centre of the front row

The class of 1975, fifty years on, in front of the main door.

The class of 2015 standing in rows on the front steps of the school, with the Principal in the centre of the front row

The class of 2015, ten years on, on the same steps.

Appeal

The early decades are almost entirely missing

If you have anything at all — class photographs, team photographs, a snap of four lads on the front steps — we would very much like to scan it, and you get the original back.

Get in touch About the Archive

How it works

1 Drop it into the school office in an envelope with your name and number, or email us and we'll collect it.
2 We scan everything at high resolution — photographs, programmes, magazines, jerseys, reports.
3 You get the originals back, usually within a fortnight, in person if you'd prefer.
4 Nothing is kept. We hold the scan; you keep the thing itself.