Wandsworth School’s existence spanned almost a century of educational reform and change, from its foundation in 1895, from being a grammar school, a technical college and then a community comprehensive school, before it closed and merged with Spencer Park school during the drastic secondary school reorganisation under the now defunct Inner London Education Authority (Ilea). The state-of-the-art and 21st-century showcase school of St Cecilia’s should open on the south side of the same site which Wandsworth Boys’ occupied from 1927.