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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.

Ayrton was a City of Leeds Training College student between 1941 and 1943. In 1941, the college was evacuated to hotels in Scarborough for the duration of the war. Ayrton was based at Southlands and Red Lea Hotel. She was educated at Park School and Colne Grammar School. Her first teaching posts were at Park Junior School in 1945 and later at Trawden Primary School through the 1950s. She married Benjamin Waite, a Civil Servant, in Colne in 1948. The couple moved to Slough, where they brought up their family. She taught at Montem Middle and William Penn Schools but moved back to her native Colne after the death of her husband in 1979. She retired from teaching in 1981. She threw herself into organising festivals, including the Colne Luther Greenwood Festival. She also organised reunions for her college and Grammar School in Colne.
In the early 1990s, she contacted Judith Chalmers' regular spot on Radio 2 to promote reunions. As a direct result, she organised Scarborough students' reunions until around 2017. At the height of their popularity, the reunions attracted over 140 students.
Ayrton was born on 5 July 1923 at Colne in Lancashire, the daughter of Walter Ayrton, a Cotton Worker, and Beatrice Greenwood. She married Benjamin Waite on 19 June 1948 at Colne Congregational Church. She died on 20 July 2019 at the Sycamore Rise Nursing Home in Colne.

Broadbent was an architect for the Leeds Education Department from 1908 until his retirement in 1937. He started working for the Leeds School Board in 1890 under Leeds architect Walter Samuel Braithwaite (1854-1922). Broadbent admitted LRIBA, a Licentiate member of RIBA. In 1911 and FRIBA, Fellow Member of RIBA, in 1921. His position meant his designs were ubiquitous in Leeds schools and colleges during the early twentieth century. Among his work was the City of Leeds Training College at Beckett Park in 1910. Along with James Graham, he created the main layout of the college that competition architects used as the basis of their designs. He was responsible for alterations to buildings used for other Leeds colleges; the old Methodist Chapel on Woodhouse Lane was refitted for use by the Leeds College of Commerce in 1933. He altered a school on Vernon Road for use by the Yorkshire Training College of Housecraft. Broadbent also designed Carnegie Hall on the Beckett Park site to house the Carnegie College of Physical Training. One of his early jobs was refitting the Woodhouse Lane mansion (later used as Harewood Barracks) for use by Leeds Girls High School. He worked closely with Robert 'Mouseman' Thompson on some of the furniture and fittings for the school. In 1907, this building became the main administrative centre of the newly formed City of Leeds Training College. From 1904, he was a Freemason.
Broadbent was born in Armley on 3 January 1873, the son of John Broadbent, a Butcher, and Maria Calvert. He married Hannah Peck in 1898. Broadbent died at his home in Alwoodley on 31 August 1946.