This would prove somewhat of a target for the other students in the area, as Giles Coren, an old boy, recalled in The Times.

The Wrottesleys sold their school in 1898 to D. H. Marshall, who took over an adjoining house in 1903, when there were 58 boys, including 10 boarders.

In 1905 Marshall bought Rebecca and Sarah Allen Olney's girls' school,[4] which his wife continued at Buckland Crescent.

Marshall moved the boys to Crossfield Road and renamed the school The Hall.

Montauban bought Woodcote at 69 Belsize Park, at the corner of Buckland Crescent, in 1916 and opened it in 1917 for boys under 8.