The main landmark building, the Parkinson building is just the same as it was, but a few new buildings threw me, so I got lost wandering around.
I couldn't resist having a poke around, and the smell in the corridors hadn't changed. Some of the labs have now been turned into design studios, and a lot of the textile machinery had gone, but they still had the same space where they used to extrude fibres :
It was enjoyable walking around and seeing the clever students creating new knitted designs on V-bed machines or screen-printing in the print room. I learnt to print in this room too, and still have a few of my prints hidden away in a drawer.
I'm sure the levitating lady wasn't there when I was a student. However as a nice touch she's floating over a garden planted with plants people used to extract dyestuffs from, such as madder, foxgloves, marigolds, etc :
My desk research only took an hour or two, while wandering round my old Uni and seeing how it's changed took much longer...
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