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Site of Harrow College of Technology (later University of Westminster). This, as much of the land developed as housing in the area, was part of Sheepcote Farm on the estate of George Rushout, 3rd Baron Northwick. When Rushout's widow died in 1912, the estate along with the primary seat in Gloucestershire, was inherited by her grandson, Captain Edward George Spencer-Churchill. He it was who was responsible for disposing of the lands in Harrow. Prior to the building of Harrow Technical College, temporary buildings were built here during WW2 for the storage of Admiralty records. After the war, the redundant buildings were used by the Inland Revenue and as a temporary Royal Mail sorting office, probably when the new postal sorting office and post office in College Road were being built in the early '60s. '