Offline Archives to Explore

Many documents and artefacts of the school's history have been deposited over the years in various National Archives. Below are some of those researches might investigate by their own means:

Period

Archive

Description

Reference

1855

Hastings

Drawings believed to be Decimus Burton's designs for the Retford School.

HASMG:903.2.18

-1978

Nottingham Archives

Retfordian magazines, pupil rolls, Speech Day and Founder's Day programmes up to 1978. Punishment books are generally restricted access for many years to come.

SBX123

1982

Nottingham Archives

S/A056

1979-2003

Nottingham Archives

records incl admissions registers, reports, minutes and photographs

S/BX456