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This was the site of the St Marylebone School, which was actually an annexe of the St Marylebone parish workhouse. The school was opened in 1860 and during WW1, the building was taken over for use as a military hospital for Australian soldiers. The school building was demolished by 1933.
An underground civil defence bunker was built on the site and was operational during WW2. It was extended and modernised during the post WW2 Cold War period and was used as such until Hambrough Primary School was built on the site during the early 1980s. The remains of the civil defence bunker still exist beneath the school playground. '