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Born in York in 1923, he attended Leeds School of Architecture from 1947 to 1950 and graduated with a Dip. Arch. ARIBA. During WW2, he served in North Africa and Italy. During the war, he worked on design projects, including docks, rail and road bridges, and reconstruction work in the post-war period.
After graduation, he worked on the design and planning of housing projects in new towns, including Stevenage and Cumbernauld, in the 1950s and 1960s. He later worked in the directorate of the Ministry of Housing and Local Government. Later, he lectured on urban and regional planning at Strathclyde University before retiring in the mid-1980s.

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.

Major was born on 28 July 1898 in Blackburn, Lancashire. In 1901 his father, William Major, was a Gymnastic and Fencing Master at Thommasons Gymnasium in Bolton. Ernest Major studied at the Silkeborg College of Physical Training in Sweden, 1913-15. He was a member of the Carnegie Advisory Body prior to his appointment as Warden. During the Second World War he served as Lieutenant in the 51st Battalion, Royal Tank Regiment promoted to Major towards the end of the war. From 1946 onwards he was HM Staff Inspector for Physical Education. Major was awarded an OBE in 1977. He died in 1989.