In 1939 before the outbreak of WW2 the National Camps Corporation erected a camp of wooden buildings on the top part of Lordsfield. It was temporarily used by Bank of England staff but for most of the war it was a residential school for about 200 to 300 boys who had been evacuated from Southampton. After the war the school was taken over by Middlesex County Council and used for delicate and maladjusted children, suffering from wartime experiences. Contd…