“FOR MANY YEARS, Sir Montagu Sharpe’s estate, with its magnificent house, bad stretched from Argyle Road on the East to Cuckoo Lane on the West. The great iron gates opening into it were situated near what is now the West end of Cowper Road, and are remembered by many local residents who were frequently invited to fetes and sports meetings, held on the lawns of which our playing fields were part. Greenford Avenue, a new road from the Park Hotel, and passing close to the school site, was made in 1886. Other new roads soon followed and Hanwell slowly encroached upon Hanwell Park House, which was by this time derelict. Drayton Bridge Road was cut in 1897 and built upon about 1906. Sir Montagu Sharpe’s house was demolished about 1897. Our school site was purchased by the Middlesex County Council in April, 1926, and in 1929 plans were passed for the erection of the school. The County Architect prepared the plans and the building was entrusted to Messrs. W. Try and Sons, of Uxbridge. The cost of the building was £41,000.”