at Chess Olympiads. The Ulster Chess Championship has also been won by Methody alumni on 11 occasions, although only John Nicholson (1971,1973), Paul Hadden (1975), and Brian Kelly (1994) won whilst still at school. Brian Kelly is the only Methody alumnus to have won the Irish Chess Championship (in 1995 and 2007)—Tom Clarke having come close, but losing on Tiebreak. Preparatory departments Methody has two fee-paying preparatory schools, Downey House and Fullerton House, each with 280 pupils, aged 5–11. Their fees for the 2017/2018 year were £4,730. There is a pre-school on both sites catering for children aged 3 and 4. Fullerton House There has been a preparatory department in the main buildings of the college since it opened in 1868. It received the name Fullerton House in 1951 after the late W.M. Fullerton DL who had chaired Methody's Board of Governors. The present building was opened in 1975 at the Lisburn Road end of the Methodist College campus. The first position however, was in the vestibule of 11 College Gardens, Belfast. Fullerton's motto is 'Veritate Principio'. Downey House Downey House was opened in 1933 following the purchase of Pirrie Park from Harland and Wolff, as the college playing fields. The existing buildings were modernised and extended. It was founded by William Fullerton and named after John Downey. Downey's uniform is traditionally different from the rest of Methody as its colours are royal blue and gold. The school's motto is 'Ad Augusta'. In film and literature The 2008 film, City of Ember, used the school and in particular the Whitla Hall as a filming location. In the 2008 adaptation of Cinderella in the BBC TV series Fairy Tales, starring Maxine Peake, the McArthur Hall was used as a filming location. In the 2008 film, Miss Conception, McArthur Hall is used as the setting for a nunnery. The 2011 novel Popular, and its 2012 sequel, The Immaculate Deception, by Gareth Russell are set in a fictional co-educational Belfast grammar school situated at the top of the Malone Road, based upon the college. Interior shots for the 2014 TV miniseries 37 Days were filmed in the college's McArthur Hall. The school was used as a location for the third series of the BBC children's TV series The Sparticle Mystery. In September 2015, the McArthur Hall was used as a location for the film adaptation of The Lost City of Z, starring Robert