Monday, 2 October 2017

Beit Buildings completed

 The original Students Union building in the north of the quad was designed by Sir Aston Webb and built in 1910-11. The idea for a building came from Sir Arthur Acland, a member of the governing body. He saw the need for a place in which students could meet and develop a collegiate social life. Sir Arthur 'emphasised the value in the life of students of a spirit of good comradeship, without which a student career was of little account'. 

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The east side was designed to house the departments of botany, plant pathology and physiology and was completed in 1914.

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