Memories of Loughborough
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Loughborough Memories
Here is a selection of the memories we've received so far. More will be added throughout the year.
I started my Chemical Engineering Studies at Loughborough in 1947 and have recently been looking at Loughborough University's web-site as my youngest grandson has just started his Geography studies at Loughborough this centenary year 2009...
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Student broadcasting at Loughborough began in the academic year 1970/71. During rag week of that year the campus was able to hear transmissions from "Radio Mule, the little station with the big kick"...
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Pleasure of Hazlerigg Hall as residence after two years at sea with the Royal Navy. Pleasure of working in Victory Hall, during week with Eric Blackadder (Gymnastics) and dances each Saturday evening...
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I loved every minute of it and would have liked to have stayed longer. I made so many good friends, many of whom I still see...
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We got all the famous players and celebrities to agree to come and take part in the ground breaking event. Everything went off spendidly until the day of the Match...
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The ethos of the college (as the national leader in Handicraft Teacher Education) and the dedication and enthusiasm of the staff was instrumental in my considerable success...
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Loughborough at this time was run more like a boarding school than a University. I was resident in Bedford House where the matron a Miss Bullock tried to impose strict discipline...
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My hall of residence was The Grove, and one morning we awoke to find that a complete Austin Seven had appeared on the roof of the ballroom...
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Arriving at Somerton Hall by taxi from the station, meeting the Hall Chairman and walking into the common room to be faced by two huge men....
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I was very fortunate to live in Hazlerigg Hall, but I must confess that received special treatment! because the Warden Mr H L Widdup MA taught me Geography at Ermysted's Grammar School, Skipton in my first year in 1939...
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I arrived in Loughborough in 1952 fresh from two years in the armed forces (Infantry), as indeed did the vast majority of my fellow students (quite a few of whom had seen active service in the jungles of Malaya of the battlefields of Korea)...
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My memories of my time at Loughborough were being with practical engineers as tutors and with students of a mature age and experience which was invaluable to one starting out...
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Memories submission form
During our Centenary year, we'd love to hear your memories of Loughborough University, past and present.
Submit your memories using the form below and throughout the year, we'll add them to the site to share with others.
* Supplying your name and email address is optional but we will be unable to post memories without them. Names and email addresses will not be posted with your memories.