The Bexley local directory of 1920 carried an advertisement for Upton College stating that it had been founded in 1910. Its address then was 323 Broadway, on the corner of Upton Road.

It was a day and boarding school, preparing pupils for the Oxford Locals. By 1934 it had been transferred to No 62 Crook Log, 'Leinster House'.

It was bombed out in 1940.

It seems that cyclists in 1949 ignored traffic signals as they frequently do today (see detail below).