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| AdminHistory | Wimbledon High School opened on 9th November 1880 at 74 Wimbledon Hill with 12 pupils under headmistress Edith Hastings. It moved to purpose built premises on 7 May 1887 on Mansel Road. In 1902 the preparatory department moved into 74 Wimbledon Hill. By 1910 the school offered a domestic science course for girls over 17 which continued until World War Two. From 1911-1921 the school was known as Wimbledon Hill High School. In 1917 the Mansel Road building was badly damaged in a fire and had to be rebuilt. In the meantime the senior school moved to 5 Grosvenor Hill and the Juniors to 14 Ridgeway Place. In 1919 the Junior school moved to 70 and 72 Wimbledon Hill. The Income Tax Act of 1918 stated that charitable institutions, such as public schools, were exempt from Property Tax (Schedule A), though the Trust schools remained subject to the Tax. The Trust appealed against this in the late 1920s using Wimbledon School as a test case under the lawyer, George Morgan Edwardes Jones. After several attempts the commissioners of the Inland Revenue accepted the Trust's case in 1931, and all their schools became exempt from property tax. In 1920 the senior school returned to Mansel Road. In 1959 the freehold of the Mansel Road and Wimbledon Hill corner was purchased and a new junior hall was built. In 1970 the school brought 82 Wimbledon Hill (Avon House) to give the school extra room. A new junior school was opened in 1975. |