Red route

Another shot taken whilst wandering around Bradford University. Sometimes it's good to get away from nature and history and try some different images - though I have plenty of personal history here.  This was where I was a student.

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Bradford University again - a view of the recently built glass Atrium. (It was the weekend and so there were few students around.)

Five red Henrys

A bit of a random image but it caught my eye. It's one of Bradford University's residential blocks. I think the red items on each landing are vacuum cleaners.  There is a make called 'Henry' that's red and has a cute face painted on.

In balance

One of several modern sculptures dotted around Bradford University's campus, this one is called 'In Balance'. Designed by Richard Thornton and constructed in stainless steel and bronze, it is a loose depiction of a globe, with different segments finely balanced on each other. The etched surfaces suggest some of the different areas of study within the university.

Blue sky thinking

Another view of part of the University of Bradford. It is a largely science-based university: engineering, computing, life sciences, management studies, social and international studies. The block on the left houses the Department of Health Studies. Bradford was the first university to establish a Department of Peace Studies, and is still the largest academic centre in the world for studying peace and conflict. There is also important research in cancer therapeutics, among many other areas of excellence.

Alma Mater

Jack (Hartford Daily Photo) asked me recently how I came to live in this area. I was raised in the Midlands but came to study at Bradford University (many) years ago and I've stayed in Yorkshire ever since. I had a little nostalgia trip recently, up to the main university campus. It has grown over the years. The core of this block, the Richmond Building, was there when I was a student but it has had a face-lift and a magnificent glass atrium now sits where the all-important Students Union bar used to be! The beige bit on the very right hand side was/is the main hall - scene of many a lively rock concert in my youth and, later, the hall where I shook hands with Harold Wilson (who was the University Chancellor at the time) when I received my degree. I actually studied at the School of Management, which is on another site, but the main university campus was the focus of much of my social life. Ah... those were the days!