Walking the University ……… on an October morning two years ago

It will be a full half century and more since I regularly passed the University buildings on Oxford Road.

And even then, it was just a passing whizz on the bus which took me on to what was still the College of Commerce on Aytoun Street, or as we called it the College of Knowledge.

The 42 Corpy Red which passed the University at 8.30 was a tad too early for most of the students, but it didn’t stop the bus conductor shouting out “Lazy bones school” “loafers paradise" and other slightly more derogatory comments.

Fast forward 50 years and settle on midday and I was amazed at just how many students were walking in a purposeful way in both directions along Oxford Road.

Not one seemed over bothered by the twin towers of the Contact Theatre, and many were drawn to the food stalls along the way managing to mix breakfast and lunch into the same meal.

I toyed with exploring the history of the University and the Contact but both have been done and done better than I elsewhere.

So that is it.

Location; Oxford Road

Pictures; the Contact, breakfast and getting away from the crowds, 2022, from the collection of Andrew Simpson