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    When the prodigious school on its commanding site was first opened to great fanfare on 9th December 1931 by the Duke of Kent in the presence of the boys,the teachers and a plethora of national and civic worthies,Major John Jacob Astor (who gave his name to Astor Avenue) pronounced to the assembly as follows "These buildings are destined to be far more than bricks and mortar to generations of boys to come".The founding headmaster,Fred Whitehouse,whose life creation it was, was an adherent to a maxim attributed to Winston Churchill "We shape our buildings and our buildings shape us".Res ipsa loquitur.

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