The Stationers' Company's School was a

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for boys, later a

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Foundation

The school was founded by the

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to provide education for sons of those in the printing, newspaper, publishing and allied trades, at that time concentrated around

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and

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. In 1861 it was established at No.6 Bolt Court, a historic alleyway off

. The Master of the school from 1858 to 1882 was Alexander Kennedy Isbister.

Grammar school

In 1891 the School moved to a spacious hill-top site between Mayfield Road and Denton Road in Hornsey, northeast from

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in purpose-built buildings in a Gothic Style. Early on the speech night was held at the nearby Stationers' Hall and after relocation to

often at the Hornsey Town Hall. In 1933 the school was extended and a new assembly hall, gymnasium, dining hall and workshops were accommodated in a new brick extension rising to five storeys along Mayfield Road,which doubled the school's footprint. Founded as a

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, it became

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in 1966 within the newly created

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, after which the Stationers' Company's connection with the school through the appointment of governors was largely nominal.

Comprehensive

Stationers' Company's Grammar School became a comprehensive boys' school in 1967, by merger first with Priory Vale Secondary Modern School in

and later with William Forster School in

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. The school resulting from these ill-considered mergers did not flourish and Stationers' School closed in 1983. The buildings were demolished and part of the site landscaped as Stationers' Park, with the balance developed as social housing.

Alumni

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