After the Goodbye Tour
The FINAL Goodbye Tour of the Shoreditch College buildings and grounds took place on April 19, 2008. More than 80 people were there and enjoyed looking around all the college buildings that the Security personnel had kindly opened up for the occasion.
Mike Marsh (1959-61, 1971-72) has given permission for us to post a link to his Picasa album of photos that he took on the tour:
http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/Mikeg4ggc/20080419FinalShoreditchCollegeVisit
Do take a look at them, they will bring back some memories.
Once again, our very grateful thanks to all the people who made this tour such a success.
The original Goodbye Tour on September 20, 2007 was a great success! About 50-60 people attended and enjoyed walking around the campus and checking out the Archives Centre, not to mention meeting for lunch and a beer in the various local pubs.
There were a few cameras about, so there should also be some great shots of people, the campus or buildings to share on this web site.
(note: there could possibly be copyright issues involved in publishing photographs of documents/photos from the archives, so unfortunately we cannot accept those).
For starters, here is a set of photos by John Williams. The album includes many exterior shots of the buildings and grounds, archive centre displays, memorial plaques etc.
Of course, we would love to publish your photos from the Tour as well, so if you have any you would like to share, please send them to Jill and we will include them.
This event would never have happened without a few key people:
Particular thanks are due to Kate Lewis and Helen Betteridge
at the Archive Centre for arranging the display of a selection from the
archive collection (and for suggesting it in the first place!), to Janie
Grover in Brunel's Development & Relations Office for facilitating
the occasion and for organising the refreshments, to John Penfold for
acting as a tour guide, and also to Stuart Salt and others who boosted
our efforts to drum up support by phoning and emailing their own
contacts. <John Williams>
And I would like to thank my brother, John, for all the time and hard work he put into liaising with the above and emailing many, many ex-students and staff. Thanks John! <Jill>
After listening to so many reminiscences, stories, and memories of wonderful practical jokes, several people suggested it would be a great idea to record them while they are still remembered. So here we go - a page that will be dedicated to such things.
Contributions are welcome!!!
page updated May 2008