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OSBORNE
Osborne is located between Segrave and Hatfield. In the '80s and '90s, it was the richest housebase and had satellite TV, a popular tuck shop, a bar, table tennis, and drinking-water fountains as well as the plushest study room on campus. But it also had to cater for school meals during the '90s (along with the Old 6th Form Base, and later Hatfield). The Osborne/Hatfield kitchens did fantastic flapjacks. Osborne is named after the family that lived at Kiveton Hall (which used to be somewhere near where the Anstone quarry is now) back in the 17-19th centuries. Upstairs in Osborne were two or three Geography rooms. And the flyovers went east/west to Segrave and Hatfield. My knowledge of Osborne is weak because I spent very little time there. Physically speaking, the building is a reflection of Hatfield, externally at least. After the rebuiliding of Lower School, Geography split to new quarters. Osborne is now home to the IT department. It is divided into four rooms (O1-4), two on each side of the corridor, much like Hatfield now is. The south-west room (O3) appears to have recently belonged to Mrs Lee (prior to her leaving) judging by [this plan] from the [DCS site]. The single door links to the corridor. The double doors will link to O4. Note the wall lighting, which if accurate is a post-refit addition. The windows visible in the photo opposite (to the right of the flyover) are those along the near wall of the diagram. In my year (1990-5), Osborne pupils were generally set-mixed with Hatfield. Heads of House: Mr
Harvey & Mrs Walker
(1963-c.68) |
The north side of Osborne, seen from Skinners, 2004. On the roof are some big air-conditioning unit thingies that seem to have been added since the mid-'90s.
The south side of Osborne, viewed through the Athorpe / 6th Form flyover, 2006. The flyover is undergoing some treatment.
This is the Segrave / Osborne flyover, as seen from the top of Segrave fire-escape on a wet afternoon in late 1995. The room on the right is O3, and the room on the left is O2. Beyond Osborne (with its puddles and vents) is the roof of Hatfield (with some more vents), and beyond that the roofs of the New Gym and the Admin Block. You can even, just about, make out the Swimming Pool roof in the extreme top left (with the box on it). The trees on the horizon at the centre of shot are likely Barton Wood. The mass of puddles, gravel, asphalt, moss and coaxial cable in the foreground is, of course, the roof of the flyover T-junction between Osborne, Athorpe and Segrave. The smudge in the top right is not smoke (the fire is six months away) but trees. |
