[4] Rigg herself was college principal, with an additional mistress of method and lecturer in educational science.

[2] From 1918 to 1950, the headmistress was Dorothy Brock: Brock made the school famous: for its scholarly attainments, achieved in part by unconventional teaching methods; for the variety of careers it opened to its pupils, in industry, commerce, and social service, as well as more traditional occupation such as nursing ... ; and most markedly for its all-pervasive music.

[6] From 1919, the school was funded to provide girls with a two-year course of post-GCE music study.

[6] Brock oversaw the school's evacuation during World War II, first to Kent and then to Llanelli.

[7] The building subsequently became the headquarters of Save the Children for several years, and was converted into a complex of apartments, called Mary Datchelor House, by Berkeley Homes in 2009.