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UWA Old Photos

Click through a selection of old photos charting the history of the University Of Wales Aberystwyth. The research for the captions was carried out by Rachel Dean in March 2006 when she was a second year Drama and History student. Photographs courtesy of the UWA.

The Bell Tower
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"The bell tower on the University Campus is certainly a landmark, the closer it looks the less distance you have to walk up the hill! David Henderson from the Estates Department of The University Of Wales Aberystwyth, gave me the following information on the bell tower which forms part of the Aberystwyth Arts Centre complex on the Penglais site.

"The tower was designed by Sir Percy Thomas and Sons, Architects, of Cardiff and built in 1970. It was designed to serve two purposes. Firstly, as a boiler flue chimney stack for the boilers located in the Students Union boiler house, which provide heating for the Students Union, the Arts Centre and the Hugh Owen Building and secondly, as a bell tower. Until recent times, the bell was rung on Graduation Days tosignal the end of each Graduation Ceremony. For technical reasons this has not happened recently."

This slideshow was compiled by Rachel Dean in March 2006 when she was a second year History & Drama student at UWA.


your comments

Michael Belham from Frome
In 1887 my great grandfather's company - S. Belham & Co. was given the contract to rebuild the College after the fire.
Sun Jun 7 20:21:41 2009

sally payne
My great great grandfather was one of the three men who died in the fire. His name was Samuel Morgan Jones.
Sun Aug 31 13:50:47 2008

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