Anderson was a City of Leeds Training College student around the mid-1920s. In 1925, he became a teacher at Darfield Council School. He was associated with the Dearne Valley School Sports Association and was a keen cricketer at Darfield Cricket Club, where he occasionally acted as Chairman. He also played soccer for Darfield in the 1930s. As well as organising school sports teams, Anderson also supervised musical productions. At the time of his marriage in 1933, he taught at Darfield County Junior at Snape Hill. In 1938, he was a teacher at Great Houghton Council School. Anderson was transferred to the Darfield Senior School in 1941, Foulstone Modern. By 1960, Anderson was Headmaster of Birdwell School. In 1957, he was Army Cadet Battalion OC Major.
Anderson was born on 22 June 1905 in Darfield, near Barnsley. He was the son of George Anderson, a Colliery Labourer who later became a Greengrocer and Florist with his wife, Sarah Randerson. Anderson married Edna May Thompson in 1933. He died in 1978.
George Sprittles was born in 1893 at Wakefield. He was called up in 1916 and was stationed at the 2nd Northern General Hospital (based in the newly built City of Leeds Training College at Beckett Park) he left Beckett Park in 1919 having made the rank of sergeant. He was later ordained a Deacon in 1923 and ministered in the Nottingham area. At his death in 1980 he was Canon of Southwell Cathedral. George’s elder brother was Joseph Sprittles who contributed many articles to the Thoresby Society, including a study of New Grange, the estate of which would in the early twentieth-century house the Training College.