Student Lunches Only
A very random find, located on the eastern side of the Wellington Church. I mentioned The Crypt a few days ago, and the above trash can can be found on the same side as the entrance to The Crypt.
For the record, I’m in no way suggesting that this is where they get the food they serve to students, especially considering I eat there at least three times a week, but rather I’m asking the question “why do you need a separate trash can for student lunches?”
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Lilybank Gardens
Possibly the most underused green area around the University of Glasgow campus, Lilybank Gardens is located at the western end of the University, parallel to Ashton Lane and the car park which goes by the deceptive name of ‘Lilybank Gardens Car Park’. It’s quite rare to see that many people using the park, save for locals walking their dog, someone from Estates and Buildings mowing the lawn, or a few students having a snack on the rare warm sunny days while pretending to study.
I’ll post a autumny view of Lilybank Gardens in a few weeks, as the leaves are at their best for the coming month or so.
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The Crypt
Whereas most of the cafés around the Glasgow University campus are operated by the same company and offer pretty much the same thing in each of them (with a few notable differences, of course), there is one café on campus which remains a bit of a hidden gem.
Located on the eastern side of the Wellington Church is a café called The Crypt, which is open from 10am to 1.45pm, and then from 2pm to 4pm. The offering during the earlier section is hot food, including some great toasties and soup, and the later time is for baked goods.
Since discovering it I go there about three times a week for breakfast, especially because the coffee there is the best you can get on campus, and it’s only a pound (with free refills!) Same applies to the tea as well.
There’s also a piano in the café with a sign saying “Play Me”.
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Seats of Comfort
In addition to the new computers I talked about yesterday, the Glasgow University Library also has new computer chairs this year, which they were wheeling in during Freshers’ Week. Good thing too, as the old ones were starting to fall apart. The above photo is from the computer area of Level 3.
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A Mountain of New Computers
Found this during my first trip to the Glasgow University Library this term, during Freshers’ Week. By the back wall of the computer section of Level 3 was this little mountain of empty computer boxes.
Christmas came early for students using the library’s computers I guess.
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Roofs of Hetherington
And, for something different, the rooftops of the Hetherington Building, taken from the University Library.
By the way, in case you’ve been wondering where the Hetherington name comes from, it’s from Sir Hector Hetherington (1888-1965). Having studied at the University from 1905 to 1910, he was a lecturer in the Department of Moral Philosophy from 1910 until 1914, Professor of Moral Philosophy from 1924 to 1927 and then Principal of the University from 1936 until 1961.
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Hetherington Building
There doesn’t seem to be much architectural evidence of the 1980s at the University of Glasgow, save for the annexe to the Library and the Hetherington Building just behind it. The Hetherington Building was completed in 1983 to provide facilities for the teaching of languages, a duty the building still fulfills. Situated within is also the Language Centre, as well as a Library adjoined to it.
In 2009 the building was slightly extended on its northern side at Great George Street. Which I’m quite familiar with as I lived right next to the construction during my first year at Uni when I stayed in the Student Apartments on Great George Street.
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John Smith’s Bookshop at the University of Glasgow
Having shown the former location of the main bookshop on campus yesterday, this is what the (relatively) new bookshop looks like, located on the bottom floor of the Fraser Building.
The above photo is from last year, so the arrangement of the shelves might look a bit different. I just ran across this photo in my archives and decided to post it. A year ago it was either this one or the one I posted then, and I kinda liked this one.
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John Smith’s Bookshop in the John Mac
The John Smith’s Bookshop used to be located in the John McIntyre Building, before it moved to the Fraser Building just over a year ago. Since then, the area it occupied has been pretty much empty, save for use as a weights room/gym for what I was told was the Boating Club.
Anyone have any idea what the now deserted area is going to be used for in the coming future?
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John McIntyre Café
Continuing from yesterday’s photo, the John McIntyre Café is one of the many similar cafés around the University of Campus, but I’d go so far as to say that it’s probably the nicest one in terms of look and atmosphere, especially considering the above hall in the John McIntyre Building used to be a debating chamber.
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John McIntyre Debates Chamber
The Debates Chamber in the Glasgow University Union is not the only one on campus, nor is it the oldest around campus. The current John McIntyre Café is located in the former debates chamber of the GUU, in the John McIntyre Building, which dates from 1887. When the GUU moved to it’s purpose built building down Univeristy Avenue in the early 1930s, the Queen Margaret Union moved in to the John McIntyre Building and had its own chamber for debating.
Add this to the list of discoveries made by one day looking up from my cup of coffee and sandwich.
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B is for… Boyd Orr [ABC Sundae]
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I’ve mentioned John Boyd Orr previously, in connection with the poll I held on this blog last November about what is the ugliest building at the University of Glasgow. The Boyd Orr Building came on top of that poll as the runaway winner for the title of “Ugliest Building at the University of Glasgow”. It seems to be somewhat of a habit at the University to remember some of its most famous sons (because there are no buildings named after women at the University of Glasgow) by naming some of the ugliest buildings on campus. Case in point, the Adam Smith Building.
John Boyd Orr (1880-1971), 1st Baron Boyd-Orr, a graduate of Glasgow University, is inarguably one of the greatest Scots ever to have lived. A politician, teacher, doctor, biologist, rector of Glasgow University (1945-47), and chancellor of Glasgow University (1947-1971), Boyd Orr is best known for his quest to end world hunger (for which he won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1949), and was also first Director-General of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). He was also the co-founder and the first President of the World Academy of Art and Science (WAAS). He was knighted in 1949, and lived to be 90 years old. As a University of Glasgow student, it’s alumni like this whose legacy you stand on and study around. No pressure.
I’ll leave you with a quote from the man himself:
There can be no peace in the world so long as a large proportion of the population lack the necessities of life and believe that a change of the political and economic system will make them available. World peace must be based on world plenty. [source]
For more about the Boyd Orr Building and the man who it’s named after, see my previous posts on the subject.
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Qudos Coffee Bar
As a part of the Queen Margaret Union’s renovations over the summer, a part of the ground floor of the student union has been redone, as well as the entire Qudos club section. As a part of the renovations a new café area has been added on the ground floor (or rather, the old café area and the seats have changed placed and received a makeover. Appropriately the new coffee bar has been named the Qudos Coffee Bar.
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Freshers’ Week ’10: The Rest
And finally, the fifth collage from the 2010 Freshers’ Week at Glasgow University. The above are photos which didn’t fit into the earlier collages, but ones which I felt I wanted to post as well, such as the steampunk gun from the Glasgow University E. Steampunk Society, the “For SRC Advise Centre use only” leaflet holders packed with flyers for various clubs and bars, Joker staring back at you from the poster sale in the Cloisters, the table that the Communist Party had outside the QMU, complete with a red flag with Che Guevara on it, and especially these words of advice: NEVER EVER park your car on University Gardens (or University Avenue for that matter) during Freshers’ Week.
The right-most larger photo is of the Freshers’ registration. Apparently the computer system crashed just as they were letting people in to register, and had to stop for a while. The queue extended from underneath the Hunterian Museum to the other end of the Cloisters (see the two photos below the one with “ID Cards” in it. At another time, the line extended all the way to the South Front of the University. Eek, that must have been fun.
More photos from Freshers’ Week at Glasgow University can be found here.
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Freshers’ Week ’10: Brands and Venues
In addition to societies attempting to recruit new members, the local bars, clubs, stores and brands are also vying to get the students’ attention (and contact details). Some of them may just be out there to hand out free pizza (like Domino’s), free hugs (the Campus mascots) or flyers. The atmosphere on University Avenue is usually quite jubilant, with music blasting out of whichever clubs’ soundsystem, each company trying to outplay and outperform each other. Well, some companies anyway. Some merely focus on littering the whole length of University Avenue with a million flyers, leaving no tree or pole unbranded.
More photos from Freshers’ Week at Glasgow University can be found here.
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Freshers’ Week ’10: People
Third collage of Freshers’ Week 2010 at Glasgow University, this time featuring some of the people seen around campus during the week. I apologise if that goat-thingy in the middle gives you nightmares.
More photos from Freshers’ Week at Glasgow University can be found here.
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Freshers’ Week ’10: More Freshers’ Fair Stalls
Continuing from yesterday, more photos of society stalls from Freshers’ Week 2010 at Glasgow University. The ones yesterday were from Bute Hall and Randolph Hall, whereas most of the ones in the collage above are from the marquee in the East Quadrangle.
From top left: One Voice Glasgow, Amnesty International, Burlesque Society, Muslim Students Association, Glasgow and Strathclyde Universities Officer’Training Corps, Psychology Society, Astronomy Society, Motor-Sport Club, GUAVA Society, Nordic Society, Steampunk Society, and in the middle are the Malt Whisky Society and the Scottish Country Dance Club. Not sure what the “Fight War Not Wars” one is.
P.S. If any of the societies featured want a copy of their photo for their own use, please use the contact form to request it and I’ll email it to you.
More photos from Freshers’ Week at Glasgow University can be found here.
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Freshers’ Week ’10: Freshers’ Fair Stalls
A collage of some of the stalls from the Freshers’ Fair from Glasgow University’s Freshers’ Week 2010. I’ve created a collage for all five days of Freshers’ Week 2010, with two days of photos from the stalls, one of some people there, one of the brands and venues marketing to students, and finally a mixed one.
From top left: Politics Society, Band Society, Law Society, Dialectic Society, Student Theatre at Glasgow and GULGBT Students’ Association, iO Science Fiction and Fantasy Society, Liberal Democrats, Glasgow University Guardian and Glasgow University Magazine, AEGIS Student Society, International Society, Model United Nations, Cut! Filmmaking, and in the centre are the Glasgow University Union and Queen Margaret Union.
P.S. If any of the societies featured want a copy of their photo for their own use, please use the contact form to request it and I’ll email it to you.
More photos from Freshers’ Week at Glasgow University can be found here.
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Pigeon, Bench and Round Reading Room
After several days of detailed posts, something random. A round building built as a reading room, a bench in the form of an anatomy table, and a fat pigeon. Enjoy.
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University Café and Takeaway
The University itself boasts a large number of cafés, and being located in the West End of Glasgow there’s no shortage of cafés and places to get an afternoon snack. There is one place in the West End that does stick out, for a few reasons.
A Byres Road institution, the University Café has been under the ownership of the Verrecchia family since 1918, currently in its fourth generation. Known for its award-winning Italian ice cream (made on the premises), the menu contains fish suppers, soup, fry-ups, pizzas, homemade lasagne and more, for prices a student can afford. The décor looks unchanged from a century earlier, and combined with all the little detail and decorations, creates an interesting atmosphere. Plus, they’ve got a large number of large glass jars full of candy on sale. Always a bonus.
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BHF Glasgow Cardiovascular Research Centre
The West of Scotland has one of the highest rates of cardiovascular disease in the world, making the University of Glasgow an ideal location for research into heart diseases and the like.
The six level, £12m research centre, which opened on the same day as the Glasgow Biomedical Research Centre in the Sir Graeme Davies Building next door, focuses its research on genetics and vascular biology applied to cardiovascular disease and is divided into six different research groups: BHF Cardiovascular Research Group, MRC Cardiovascular Research Group, BHF Cardiac and Imaging Group, Heart Failure and Pharmacology Group, CVS & Renal Failure Group and Metabolic Medicine Group.
After a cursory glance inside the building, I deemed it to look quite a bit like its twin, with the major exception of having a wall of donors in the lobby, naming the some 1,200 people who helped fund the centre.
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Glasgow Biomedical Research Centre
The Glasgow Biomedical Research Centre was opened on Tuesday April 25th 2006, by Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal. The £17m construction costs were funded by the Wellcome Trust, the Science Research Investment Fund and the European Regional Development Fund.
Unlike most buildings on campus, the Sir Graeme Davies Building, as well as its near-identical twin next door, are mostly closed off to the casual visitors. Then again, unlike most buildings on campus, this facility is comprised of medical research and laboratory facilities for Structural Biology, Molecular Parasitology and Immunobiology. Hence a photo of the staircase. Then again, I like photographing staircases.
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Sir Graeme Davies Building
If you walk around these buildings, you may think they’re mirror images, and you’d be almost right. One difference is that the one on the left has seven levels while the one on the right only has six. Additionally, only the one on the left is named after someone. Sir Graeme Davies (1937-), from New Zealand, was the Principal of the University of Glasgow 1995-2003.
The two buildings, linked by a two-floor glass walkway, are the Glasgow Biomedical Research Centre (Sir Graeme Davies Building) on the left and the British Heart Foundation (BHF) Glasgow Cardiovascular Research Centre on the right, and contain medical research and laboratory facilities.
The Sir Graeme Davies Building has some interesting lighting on it in the evenings, with the wall to the left sporting a light-grid and the staircase just to the left of the shot showing off with alternating colours. I’ve yet to remember to take a photo of either of them, so that’s still to come one day.
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Triangle of Excellence
One of the newest sections of the University of Glasgow is located at the western end of the campus, a triangular medical compound with the three corners made up of the Wolfson Medical School Building, the BHF Glasgow Cardiovascular Research Centre, and the Glasgow Biomedical Research Centre (Sir Graeme Davies Building).
The land where the three buildings now stand was previously occupied by Victorian tenements, which were demolished to make way for five-storey residences for nurses and others employed at the Western Infirmary just across the street. These were demolished in 2000 to make way for what has been described as the University’s ‘triangle of excellence’, comprised of the three aforementioned buildings.
The building reflected on the glass walls of the Wolfson Medical School Building above is the Boyd Orr Building, built some 30 years earlier.
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