| The school did not really close, though for legal purposes it did, but merge with the site neighbour Hammersmith County Girl's School. This was in the early 1980s (I became a school governor in 1982 and it was after tat year). The background was that the school population of inner West London (Kensington & Chesea and Hammersmith & Fulham) was forecast to fall quite dramatically during the 1980s and had already started to do so. This was because the houses that had been in multiple occupation as rented lodgings, often with up to 16 doorbells (for example in Sinclair Road) were being converted into self-contained flats, say 4 doorbells where there had been 16 before. This meant a drop in population density, and it was going to impact severely on the then 20 schools in Inner London Education Authority Division One (RBK&C and LBH&F). A planned reduction to 10 schools was organised, in some cases involving merges of two adjacent schools with no loss f site |