Paternoster

[Proto]

Paternoster is well worth a visit.. Beautiful fishing village on the Atlantic cost, Western Cape, South Africa.

 

[Proto]

Maybe they had more than one? I was engineering, so had a few maths lectures in the tower but don't recall having to go into the Chem block.

I was engineering too, but in my day the Mech Eng was not on main campus, it was in Adelphi Steet (maybe it still is? Dunno!). A my age memory is going a bit

 

[lazybloke]

There was one in the Roger Stevens Building at Leeds Uni. I was scared of it.

Yes, I was gutted when it wasn't running on an open day, circa 1988.
I subsequently studied at Leeds but never saw it in an operational state.

 

[Spinney]

I was engineering too, but in my day the Mech Eng was not on main campus, it was in Adelphi Steet (maybe it still is? Dunno!). A my age memory is going a bit

Aero and Mech were in the Newton Building, on campus. I was there 78-81 - after your time?

 

[Julia9054]

Yes, I was gutted when it wasn't running on an open day, circa 1988.
I subsequently studied at Leeds but never saw it in an operational state.

That was the year I graduated. Didn't realise the lift had been closed as early as that. Were they really so dangerous?

 

[lazybloke]

That was the year I graduated. Didn't realise the lift had been closed as early as that. Were they really so dangerous?

I didn't have any lectures in the building, so I may have missed its gory glory.

 

[simon.r]

Blimey 85-88!

‘83 to ‘85 for me, but only for one day a week. Small world ‘innit?

My Grandad used to tell tales of being stationed on top of one of the old poly buildings in WW2, to spot incoming enemy planes. I guess at the time it would have been amongst the tallest buildings in Leicester.

 

[Proto]

Aero and Mech were in the Newton Building, on campus. I was there 78-81 - after your time?

Yes, earlier, 72-75

 

[Brains]

We had one where I worked at P&O in the seventies, in Whitechapel. It was great fun!

I used to go into the P&O building on a regular basis, I did an entire circuit once, just to see what happened. I was quite ready for the ceiling to become the floor, however it quite cleverly did not happen, you just got a quick view of the basement

 

[Brains]

We were most likely at many of the same gigs. My main watering hole was the Victory, long since shut sadly.

Which I was running .......

Dr & the Medic's, The Dammed, Dumpy's Rusty Nutts, Dr Feelgood, The men they could not Hang, Boys Wonder, Voodoo Child and many many more

 

[TVC]

Which I was running .......

Dr & the Medic's, The Dammed, Dumpy's Rusty Nutts, Dr Feelgood, The men they could not Hang, Boys Wonder, Voodoo Child and many many more

You were running ents at the poly, or running the Victory?

 

[Electric_Andy]

Never heard of it, or seen one. Good idea but not for the frail or disabled I'd imagine. The only "non standard" lift I've used is in the Vero Building in Auckland. You select the floor you want first, then it tells you which number lift to go to.

 

[Brains]

You were running ents at the poly, or running the Victory?

Ents @ the Poly

 

[TVC]

Ents @ the Poly

Then we must have had a couple of brief conversations at some point