The buildings are first depicted on the 1967 OS map but are probably contemporary with the surrounding social housing dating to the 1950s. At that time they were used as a school and also as offices for the National Coal Board. They are first depicted as a college in 1982. Some temporary buildings are depicted on the 1948 OS map and these are probably associated with the early Doncaster airport and RAF base. It was used as a scatter airfield during world war 2 and remained as a training school until 1954. Prior to this, the site was occupied by fields with straight and regular edges indicative of parliamentary enclosure. It was part of High Ellers Common prior to enclosure in 1779 by the 'Cantley, Branton, Bessacarr and (High) Ellers' award. Legibility of the former landscape is invisible.