The King’s School Archives

The King’s School Archives contain documents, photographs and miscellaneous items documenting our 500 year history, such as:

  • Past uniforms
  • Governors’ Minutes Books and various ledgers
  • Admission Registers (1837 onwards) – with indexes
  • Photographs – full school, sports etc.
  • Combined Cadet Force band equipment
  • Miscellaneous Examination and test results
  • Staff records
  • Past copies of Granthamian magazine
  • Yearly school lists
  • Maps and plans of the school
  • Transcripts and photographs of the Old School (now the Library) carvings
  • Miscellaneous items deposited by old pupils
  • Copies of the WWI and WWII memorials
  • Copy of Fox’s Deed, 1528
  • Items relating to Isaac Newton and Bishop Wand
  • Newton 350th Anniversary Dinner photographs


We welcome any contributions or donations to our archives, particularly pre World War II items. Visitors by prior appointment only.
Contact: linda.dawes@kings.lincs.sch.uk

News from the Archives

Celia Bradshaw has kindly donated four engravings of the School buildings and Church by Burrows c. 1900. You can view these and other images on our Flickr site at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kingsschoollibrary or have a look at the Images from the Archives page.

Information Sheets

The information sheets below have been prepared by our volunteer School Archivists and are available as a pdf for you to download.

1. Earliest Days
2. Elizabethan Schooling
3. Pre-1600
4. Seventeenth Century Masters
5. Eighteenth Century Masters
6. Finances pre-1815
7. Masters in the Nineteenth Century and the regime of 1815
8. The Nineteenth Century and the regime of 1855
9. The Nineteenth Century and the regime of 1876
10. W.R.Dawson and the staff sackings (coming soon)
11. Financial problems and the Local Education Authority (coming soon)
12. Post World War I and Alexander James Tate (coming soon)
13. Carvings in the Old School (coming soon)
14. Old Granthamians (coming soon)
15. A Historical View from The King's School Quad

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Last updated: LD 24/11/2009

Information sheet downloads