ABSTRACT

Cockburn’s great cube had cupolas at each corner as though the architects, to relieve the functional blankness, had decided to add swirls which might seem at least slightly reminiscent of the domes and spires of Oxbridge. Otherwise, everything from the outside was unprepossessing as architecture. Just over the road, in an old and fairly large detached villa, was Burton House, Cockburn’s kindergarten, academic forcing-bed or allotment. A relic from the day when even more students at the senior school were fee-payers. A kindergarten attached to the mother foundation could at one time give children almost automatic entry to the main school. There was another band, composed of people who did not seek training preparatory to entry to Leeds Grammar School or Leeds Girls’ High School, or even less impressive-seeming places such as Cockburn, for their children, though they had at least as much money as most of those who did.