Huyton Hill Preparatory School

The school is one of several that were evacuated from cities in England at the outbreak of World War II to escape the risk of German bombs.

Huyton Hill was the first school in the country to host its own aircraft landing strip as reported in Flight Magazine.

[4] Butler's name also appears in the "List of Members and Articles of Association", IAPS, January 1930, p. 5.

Brigadier Gordon H. Osmaston joined the school as the mathematics teacher in 1948 after serving in the army in Iraq during World War II.

[7] The school discipline policy was very progressive for its time, using a system of points that triggered rewards or loss of privileges instead of traditional methods.

The dormitories in the new school facility were named after local mountains in the Lake District as follows: First floor (junior): Dollywaggon, Catbells, Langdale, Helvellyn, Latterbarrow*.

The school song was written by Hubert Butler with the help of pupils and set to the music Monk's Gate, which is best known as the hymn To be a Pilgrim by John Bunyan, 1684.

He died in 1971 whilst working for UNICEF in Switzerland and the ownership of the building passed over to his son.