| Description | Accession of March 2012:
Admissions register 1926-1966; Deposit Account books 1931-1937 & 1851-1959; Fees[?] books 1953-1957; New Hall Fund Account book 1958; Breakages & Spillages Account book, undated; Form lists 1965; Lists of Principals, 2nd Mistresses and Head Girls 1929-1970; School magazines 1934-1968; The Story of St. Ronan (published booklet - Tom Brown (Belper) Ltd.); Programmes for prize-givings and other events 1930s-1950s; Paris trip itinery, year unknown; photographs 1932-1965
Accession of September 2021:
Programme of a school visit to Bruges 8-15 Apr 1952; Prize Giving Programme, 25 Jul 1933; Speech Day programme, 1953/54; Speech Day prize list, 1 Nov 1968 [closed until 2053]; Lists of awards received by pupils, [1960s] (Closed); Entrance form and inventory, [1960s];
School magazines Nos. 13, 16, 18-24 and 26, 1954/55-1967/68;
Booklet - The Story of Saint Ronan ; S. Ronan's School, Duffield Hall (no publisher named);
Magazine article [from Derbyshire Life and Country] on St. Ronan's by Eric Sample, [Aug 1965];
School photographs 1932, 1938, 1940, 1947, 1949, 1951, 1953, 1955, 1959, 1962, Photographs - School plays and other events 1930s-1963, Festival of a Breton Saint, 1950s; Slides of school building and grounds [1960s];
Quote from Lt. General Sir Arthur Smith at the opening ceremony of Melbourne Hall (his former residence), 14 May 1959;
Reports on the 1st XI Hockey team (1967-68),Tennis team (1968) [both [closed until 2053] and Swimming Sports Day (c1968) [closed until 2053]; also on a school trip to the Wimbledon Tennis tournament and to Nottingham to see the film 'A Man for All Seasons', (both 1968) [closed until 2053]; poems written by pupils (c1968) [closed until 2053];
pencil case holder;
Badges - 3 National Association of Teachers of dancing; 1 which reads Cricket
Accession of September 2022:
Salary account books (four volumes) 1939-1961
Accession, Dec 2921
Admissions register 1926-1966; Deposit Account books 1931-1937 & 1851-1959; Fees[?] books 1953-1957; New Hall Fund Account book 1958; Breakages & Spillages Account book, undated; Form lists 1965; Lists of Principals, 2nd Mistrisses and Head Girls 1929-1970; School magazines 1934-1968; The Story of St. Ronan (published booklet); Programmes for prize-givings and other events 1930s-1950s; Paris trip itinery, year unknown; photographs 1932-1965 |
| Administrative History | Between 1908 and 1970, St. Ronan's School was housed at Duffield Hall, becoming an exclusively girls' school in 1928. By the 1960s there were 120 boarders and day-students enrolled.
The school closed in 1970 and in 1977 the property was acquired by the Derbyshire Building Society. The adjoining estate was sold for the St Ronans Road residential development. |
| Custodial History | These records were donated to Derbyshire Record Office in 2012, 2021 and 2022. Several items relating to a former pupil of the school were added to this collection in May 2019 and re-accessioned to D8312 in December 2019. |