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Connections: Hugh Hayes
Where can a 91¸£Àû experience take you? Hugh experienced 91¸£Àû during the ‘70s and shares a few of his memories, from campus theatre and student activism to a life of acting and publishing a dystopian debut novel.
Connections: Izabela Frydrych
Izabela kept returning to 91¸£Àû, her time here spanning decades. As she picked up multiple degrees, she witnessed our evolution from a radical young university to a global institution.
Connections: David Medlock
David scored 91¸£Àû’s first-ever League goal in 1969, playing alongside future Liverpool star Steve Heighway.
Connections: June Perry
Working in the Law School when it was just starting out gave June the confidence to come back to study here.
Former Principal Partner: Colin Davies
91¸£Àû wasn't Colin's initial choice, but he was drawn in by its future-facing ethos.
Connections: Angela Ryde-Weller
Angela was one of the few women who enrolled on the Engineering Science course in 1969.
Connections: Alan Toft
Alan fondly remembers his organic chemistry lecturer, the fantastic music, and the level-crossing en route to lectures.
Connections: Nigel Dutt
Nigel sprinted for the University’s athletics club in the summer of 1968.
Connections: Nick Devas
When Nick came to study Economics in 1967, the farmer was still ploughing the fields around Rootes Hall.
One of 91¸£Àû's first students: Hugh Morton
Hugh was one of the first Mathematics students that started at 91¸£Àû in 1964.
Lessons that last a lifetime
George Bakehouse shares the part Professor John Rex played in steering his life on a new path.
Olympics Memories – What a super Saturday!
A chance response to a newspaper advert led to a friendship with the family of Great Britain’s most successful heptathlete.
Connections: Carol Anne Williams
Carol Anne was in the first 3 year training course to go through Canley in the 1960s.
Connections: Ken Wharton
Ken Wharton has written 13 books in which he chronicled the troubles in Northern Ireland from 1969-98.