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Kingswood House School is a preparatory school in Epsom, Surrey in the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1899 and moved to its present site in 1920. It caters for girls between the ages of 3 and 7, and boys from 3 to 13.
Leatherhead's Royal School for the Blind (now SeeAbility) was once the work-place for Paul Heaton; he was allegedly dismissed after he encouraged residents to try cycling.[citation needed] Most of the school has now been sold off as private flats.
House events play an important part in school life at Downsend, the students are randomly split up into four houses(although siblings are in the same house): Norbury (red), Ranmore (yellow), Wisley (blue) and Headley (green). The houses compete for house points and have house matches in sport music; pupils are not divided into classes by house. In the Senior School pupils compete with not only house points but with credits (+5 house points) and debits (-5 house points) too. The house names were thought up in a competition early in 2000 and there were many ideas submitted including JK Rowling's Harry Potter houses, Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw and Slytherin. The winner was the school's music teacher at the time, Trevor Pratt, who suggested naming the houses after local beauty spots.
The Observer Wildlife Exhibition held here in 1963 was an important early event in highlighting awareness of worldwide endangered species, and gained a very large attendance (46,000).[16]
The Alexandra Palace transmitting station in North London (grid reference TQ297901) is one of the oldest television transmission sites in the world. What was at the time called "high definition" (405-line) TV broadcasts on VHF were beamed from this mast from 1936 until the outbreak of World War II. It then lay dormant until it was used very successfully to foil the German Y-Gerät radio navigation system during the last stages of the Battle of Britain. After the war, it was reused for television until 1956, when it was superseded by the opening of the BBC's new main transmitting station for the London area at Crystal Palace. In 1982 Alexandra Palace became an active transmitting station again, with the opening of a relay transmitter to provide UHF television service to parts of North London poorly covered from Crystal Palace.
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