[1][2] Notable alumni include Ken Livingstone, the former London Mayor, and poet Linton Kwesi Johnson.

[1] In 1988, an ILEA (Inner London Education Authority) quadrant review proposed a merger between this school and one in the neighbouring borough of Southwark, William Penn Boys.

[citation needed] However the two boroughs failed to agree on a combined school, and the demise of ILEA as a supervisory body in 1990 made this no longer enforceable.

This was done using a book jointly authored by Nigel File and Chris Power, "Black Settlers in Britain 1555-1958" and which became a Heinemann publication.

Another initiative was to fund an "up and coming" South London athlete called Linford Christie to act as a part-time occasional mentor to its senior sports students.

[citation needed] It offered them sizable grants of several hundred pounds towards books, travel, or study fees until the trust funds had been depleted.

[5] The school attendance drew from South London suburbs, including Streatham, Brixton, Herne Hill, Clapham and Brockwell Park.

[1] The school badge depicts a paschal lamb supporting a cross, set above a strip (wreath) of alternating blue and white.

[citation needed] The blue and white waves lines represent the River Thames; the paschal lamb with cross in heraldic terms is a "canting" or punning reference to the name Lambeth.

[citation needed] All students were expected to wear the school uniform with the exception of sixth formers were allowed "modest discretion".

[citation needed] Inter-house sporting fixtures were another feature of school life, together with house outings and social activities.

[citation needed] Unlike most comprehensive schools, Tulse Hill established detachments of the Army Cadet Force and the Air Training Corps.

[citation needed] Initially, there was no designated site for the cadets on school grounds, but a permanent building was erected at the end of the cycle sheds in 1962 with each unit occupying half.

[citation needed] The Army Cadet Force unit was established as 23 (City of London) Company, affiliated to the Royal Fusiliers.

[citation needed] The first Officer Commanding was Captain A J "Jerry" Hall who was also a German language teacher in the school.

[1] The estate is infamous as the home of Jean Charles de Menezes and part of the reason he was misidentified by police before they shot him.

[12] The empty school buildings prior to demolition can be seen in the first filming of Helen Mirren's 1990 detective series written by Linda La Plante.

[1] House builders on site said that the school building basement (plant) level remained, as it had simply been "filled" in.

The school had six gymnasia, extensive paved grounds, coach transport to Priest Hill Playing Fields at Ewell, and use of a boathouse at Putney.

[1] An on-site swimming pool was proposed in the early 1960s[1] but the headmaster devoted fundraising efforts towards the purchase of the school organ.

[1][13] Chief sites were Priest Hill Sports Grounds at Ewell, The Croft at Etchingham[1] and Davos in Switzerland.

[13] Every Monday a party of up to 30 boys with one or more teachers would leave the school to spend up to five days at the Croft on specially designed study courses.

[13] Tulse Hill School sent pupils to a number of foreign locations for sporting, educational, recreational and cultural activities.

The school's version of The Tempest, adapted as a Caribbean musical, was selected to represent Britain at an international youth arts festival in Berlin.