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Thomas Halliwell was born in 1890 at Rugby in Warwickshire, the youngest son of Railway Engine Driver John Halliwell who was originally from Rochdale. Thomas attended the City of Leeds Training College in 1910-12, resident at Buckingham House in 1911. He was Assistant Master at Murray School, Rugby from 1908-1910, Park Avenue School, Attleborough from 1912-1927 and in that year moved to Woolmer Green CE School in Knebworth and later Offley Endowed CE School near Hitchin. During WW1 he enlisted 1914 and took part in the second landing at Gallipoli later serving in Salonica and Palestine.

Samuel Child was born in 1887 at Leeds, the son of bricklayer Benjamin Child. He was a student at the City of Leeds Training College. In 1909 his school practice was at Belle Vue Council School. As well as his Board of Education Certificate he held a diploma in School Hygiene from the Royal Sanitary Institute. From 1910 to 1913 he was Assistant Master at Garforth Council School. In 1913 at Lovell Road Council School and later that year moving to Woodhouse Street Council School until 1921. During WW1 he did Military Service.

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.

Ada Elizabeth Sones was a student at the City of Leeds Training College ca.1928-1930 where she gained her Board of Education Teachers Certificate. She was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1909. From 1930 to 1933 she was Assistant Mistress at Shadwell National School later at Moortown Council School both in Leeds. She married Clarence Keeble in 1942, she died in Leeds in 1981.

Maurice Tanton Woodhouse was born in 1903 at Bridlington the son of Mr and Mrs T. Woodhouse and died in 1953 at Leeds. He was a pupil teacher at Hilderthorpe School in 1921, gained a B.A. from Leeds University in 1924 and an M.A. in Education in 1925. In 1927 he was appointed Resident Lecturer on the Principles of Teaching at the City of Leeds Training College where he spent the rest of his working life becoming Master of Method in 1932 and the first Senior Tutor in 1948. His main academic interest in the early part of his career was the teaching of Geography, but he later developed an interest in photography and cinema particularly its uses in teaching and its effects on children. In 1952 he gained a doctorate from his Alma Mater with a study of film appreciation in schools.