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Music playing

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Welcome to Walton Hall for the first Open
Forum television programme of 1972

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In this programme we're going to spend
most of our time here on the campus but

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in future programmes we hope not
only to return here but to go out to

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the regions and involve a lot of people. 
Students and part time and full time

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members of staff. But first let's look at 
some of the buildings of the university.

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Behind me here is Walton Hall itself. 
While down over on the right we've got

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the faculty blocks, or at least some of
them. There are some new buildings

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down there but also some that we've 
had for a year or more now. That houses

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Maths, the Arts and also the Social 
Sciences where I work and temporarily

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also the Library. Over here on the left
we've got a building which always reminds

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me of a Cunard liner because of it's brick
funnels and that houses correspondance

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services and it also has media production
and you'll be visiting those areas later.

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But now you can go round and see some of
the other buildings of the University.

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These are the science preparation
laboratories in which I'm assured they

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undertake experiments related to the
courses. The members of the Science

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faculty are housed in these buildings.
It's here that Professor Pentz and his

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colleagues plan their courses and devise
their ingenious home experiment kits.

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This is the lawn at the side of Walton 
Hall. There's a formal garden on the

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right there but there is uncertainty
about whether it is going to grow herbs

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or roses. The building at the back is the
catering block with a self-service

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restaurant. To the right of it they're now
building the new staff common room and

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behind it is our new showpiece, the 
lecture theatre. This is for lectures and

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very large gatherings. This fine little
church moves us back in time. It was

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one of the few buildings on site when the 
university arrived. Another original

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building was of course Walton Hall itself
which is under a preservation order. This

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part of the building which we can see now
dates from the 1830's. Here we see it a

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couple of years ago in the first stages 
of restoration. This involved among other

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things putting on a completely new roof.
The first of the new buildings that we put

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up was a faculty block which as I said
earlier has temporarily housed the

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library and has in it three of the
faculties. The campus was more like a

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building site at that time than a
university. A training ground for

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Flanders field, but out of all the mud
and rubble came the restored hall.