Following recommendations made in the Robbins Report (1963) the City of Leeds Training College was renamed the City of Leeds College of Education.
Charles Richard Hattersley Pickard was a prolific photographer around Leeds in the first half of the twentieth century. He had active business premises in the city from 1897 to 1940. He appears to have given up control of the firm Charles Pickard and Son around the start of WW2 when his son Alan took over.
The firms negatives were destroyed in 1964 at the time of a move to new premises. In 1986 they changed name to Larkfield Photography Ltd. and in 1994 became Leach Studio Ltd. This company was dissolved in 2000. Latterly they specialised in Industrial Photography, many prints being handed over to Leeds Industrial Museum (Armley?).
Currently Principal Information Assistant for Archives within Libraries and Learning Innovation. Was responsible for the present incarnation of the archive bringing together disparate parts of the University's history and heritage under the umbrella of the Archive and Special Collections.Began working for Leeds Polytechnic in 1990.
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.