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The school was opened in 1916 by
Margery Frances Bray (1895–1962), together with Elsie Bourne (1879–1937), after she had been asked to do so by William Webb, who planned and built the Webb Estate, in 1915. The school opened in the "Woodcote" Smithy near the village green with eight pupils, including
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Downside School to create the association, Lodge School. Mixed pupils from the age of three attended the infant school, Silverdene Lodge, then continued in Downside Lodge from the age of six, and girls continued further in Commonweal Lodge from the age of eleven.
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The school closed without prior warning during the summer school holiday in 2010, but the other two constituent schools of Lodge School remained open after the buildings were controversially bought for two million pounds by Linda
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