Above, the bakehouse and the five halls / hostels (Hild, Alcuin, Ascham, Priestley, Acland). Right up until the 1950s meals could have been prepared in the Bakehouse and then trolleyed along the basement corridor to serve in each hall.
The halls of residence are named after Yorkshire educationists.
Hild - St Hilda abbess of Whitby (614-680).
Alcuin - Master of York School 750ish AD
Ascham - Roger Ascham tutor to Queen Elizabeth the First born Kirby Wiske 1515
Priestley - Joseph Priestley, the discoverer of oxygen, born at Fieldhead, Birstall (near IKEA) in 1733.
Acland - Arthur Herbert Dyke Acland a member of the West Riding Education Committee responsible for Bingley College.
 
 
 
 
 
 

A common room in one of the Halls.
 
 
 
 

Acland Hall dining room