History
It is based on the site of the former Sunbury County Grammar School, which opened in 1956 on Nursery Road with 150 boys and girls, administered by Middlesex County Council Educational Committee then the Northern Surrey Divisional Executive of Surrey Education Committee. It later became Sunbury County Secondary School, which accepted ages 12–16. This site was also once home to an Orphanage.
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