Not the sort of establishment which I approve of - being all for properly funded public education where the children all mix it in together - but the garden is, nevertheless, a small pleasure on the road running between West Ewell railway station and Ewell village. It looks rather well from the road, off snap to the right.
One of the school's most famous graduates is the late Oliver Reed, well known actor and boozer, who went on to host well oiled parties from his base in Leatherhead. I had thought that there was also a long suffering Danish wife, but Wikipedia tells me that while there was such a wife, a second wife, she was entirely English and that she met Reed when she was just sixteen. And their base was not Leatherhead, rather a place called Pinkhurst Farm near Dorking. A grade two listed building.
PS: later: it comes to me now that I had probably confused Oliver Reed with another well known boozer, George Best, who perhaps did sport a Danish wife in his home near Leatherhead. An which includes some of the richest people and some of the fanciest houses in the land, despite the London overspill moved there after the second world war.
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