British History Online provides: The school was designed by David Stokes and was constructed 1950-2. The buildings were placed on the northern half of the site and the southern half was landscaped. There you can also find plans of the school. The OS Map 1937-61 shows that the school occupied the whole area bordered by Canton Street, Saracen Street, Hind Grove (which used to extend further east than now) and Upper North Street.
Built as part of the development of the Lansbury estate and hence part of the Lansbury Exhibition Of Architecture, a satellite of the Festival of Britain. Opened as the Cardinal Griffin School, the school was extended to the north and reopened as the St Philip Howard Secondary School in 1973. It was renamed again in 1991 as the Blessed John Roche Catholic School. The school was used as a location for the 1956 Children's Film Foundation production 'One Wish Too Many'. The magnificent ReelStreets have some screen captures.
At 28 Days Later we found that in 2010 the site was visited and photographed and described as follows "The site is vacant and awaits demolition for 490 new houses."
