History
Rosemary Rapaport and Irene Forster founded the school in 1962 under the original name of the Central Tutorial School for Young Musicians, at Conway Hall in central London. The school later moved to Morley College, and subsequently to Hampstead, then a large Victorian house in Harrow on the Hill. The school changed its name to the Purcell School in 1973. In 1997, the school relocated to the site of the former Royal Caledonian School campus in Bushey, Hertfordshire.
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