 The Director of Education for Leeds, James Graham, was instrumental in attracting the college to Leeds and building its premises on the Beckett Park campus.The Carnegie Trust provided £30,000 to provide a gymnasium and a hostel for 60 male students.The college premises were again used as a military hospital in the Second World War and the students were moved out of the city to Scarborough, returning to Beckett Park at the end of 1945.