After it closed she married another headteacher who ran Lady Barn House School.
[1] Carbutt was asked if she would teach two children and she decided that she could use this as the basis of founding a school.
The Brook House School opened in August 1860 with a small number of pupils.
[2] Brook House school closed in 1870 as Carbutt had health problems[3] and she went to live in Leeds again where she was elected a Poor Law Guardian.
[3] The original announcement in the Manchester Guardian stated that Mr and Mrs Herford planned to start a school for boys and girls up to the age of thirteen.