{"id":930,"date":"2011-01-13T15:34:02","date_gmt":"2011-01-13T14:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/?p=930"},"modified":"2011-02-14T13:50:31","modified_gmt":"2011-02-14T12:50:31","slug":"goodbye-to-the-geoffrey-crowther-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/?p=930","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye to the Geoffrey Crowther building (corrected)"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>\"\"<\/a>A moving tribute to the Geoffrey Crowther building has been paid here<\/a>. The building on the OU’s Walton Hall campus in Milton Keynes is currently being demolished. It was built in\u00a0in 1971 with its extension opened in the early 1980s.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Lord Crowther of Headingley<\/a> was the first Chancellor of the University until his death in 1972.\u00a0He was installed as\u00a0Chancellor at the\u00a0first meeting of the Congregation of the University\u00a0on 23 \"\"<\/a>July 1969 at the Royal Society. This was\u00a0combined\u00a0with the award of the Charter by the Privy Council, and was attended by the Prime Minister to much fanfare. It was on this occasion that Lord Crowther gave his speech describing the new university as open as to people, places, methods and ideas: the University\u2019s mission statement to this day.<\/p>\n

CORRECTION (14\/02\/2011): An official document from the University’s Estates Department provided the information for this post that the Geoffrey Crowther building was built in 1971. However, an observant reader of this blog contacted us to point out that as he was working in the building in 1969, this could not in fact be the case. A check of the aerial view of the campus from 1969 shows that indeed the building was in place then (on the left hand side of the picture).<\/p>\n

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1969 campus from the air<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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